Sources: CNN
A United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report says the worldwide recreational use and production of cocaine hit an all-time high in 2023, saying the current surge in cocaine use is primarily due to increased illicit coca bush cultivation in Colombia and updated yield data. 2025-06-26
Slovenian voters approve the use of cannabis for medicinal and recreational use in adults. 2024-06-9
Police arrest five people for the deaths of six people found in the desert near El Mirage, California, United States, allegedly over an illegal marijuana trade. The victims were shot dead, with the bodies of four of them being burned. 2024-01-29
U.S. President Joe Biden announces that he will pardon anyone who was convicted on prior federal charges, or who was convicted in the District of Columbia, for marijuana possession. 2022-10-6
The Supreme Court of Mexico decriminalizes the recreational use of cannabis for adults. 2021-06-28
Following a campaign led by Georgian politician Zurab Japaridze, the Constitutional Court of Georgia legalizes cannabis for recreational use. Georgia is the first former Soviet Republic to fully legalize the drug, with it also being decriminalized in Russia, Ukraine and Estonia. 2018-07-30
Notable propositions are passed in several states including legal recreational marijuana in California, Massachusetts, and Nevada; medical marijuana in Arkansas, Florida and North Dakota; tougher firearms restrictions in California and Washington state; physician assisted suicide in Colorado, and the reimposition of capital punishment in Nebraska. 2016-11-9
The same day the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announces it is easing restrictions on medical research involving cannabidiol (CBD), a key component in marijuana, NYU Langone Medical Center researchers report a clinical trial suggests a pill containing CBD may reduce seizures for children and young adults with epilepsy. 2015-12-24
With governor Peter Shumlin signing the law, Vermont becomes the 17th state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of cannabis. 2013-06-8
Hungarian-born multibillionaire George Soros donates $1 million to the Drug Policy Alliance to fund California's Proposition 19 in the upcoming November 2, 2010 elections that would legalize marijuana in the state if passed. 2010-10-26