Sources: CNN
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
Malta legalizes the personal use and limited cultivation of cannabis, becoming the first country in the European Union to do so. 2021-12-15
The Supreme Court of Mexico decriminalizes the recreational use of cannabis for adults. 2021-06-28
Zambia legalizes the production and export of cannabis for economic and medicinal purposes, but recreational use of the drug remains illegal. 2019-12-16
Governor Lou Leon Guerrero signs a bill into law, legalizing the recreational use of cannabis. 2019-04-4
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
Osvaldo Rivera is the suspect jailed in Camden County, New Jersey for the stabbing to death of a 6-year-old boy and the attempted murder of the boy's 12-year-old sister. Authorities say he was high on PCP-laced marijuana. 2012-09-4
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
British singer George Michael is given a sentence of eight weeks for driving under the influence of cannabis at the Highbury Corner Magistrates Court in London. 2010-09-14