Jamaica’s justice minister said Tuesday that legislation has been drafted to decriminalize marijuana on the Caribbean island where the drug has been pervasive but prohibited for a century. Mark ...

Western Australia could have the first medical marijuana health retreat in a few years. Singapore enacted law proposing up to 30 years in prison for possession of eight types of narcotics, including ...

Two years after Jamaica began awarding cannabis licenses for medical, therapeutic and scientific uses, the first Caribbean country to decriminalize pot, or ganja, as it is known here, is still ...

Marijuana possession is currently illegal in Jamaica but that could soon change. The government of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has proposed to amend the Caribbean island nation's narcotics ...

*(Via Black Voices) – Marijuana has been pervasive but illegal in Jamaica for decades, consumed as a medicinal herb, puffed as a sacrament by Rastafarians and sung about in the island’s famed reggae ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Taking a deep draw on a pipe that glows with burning marijuana, reggae luminary Bunny Wailer gives a satisfied grin through a haze of aromatic smoke in his concrete yard ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica is running ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Nearly 15,000 pounds (6,795 kilograms) of marijuana have gone up in smoke in Jamaica. The bonfire of seized drugs follows raids on marijuana-growing and trafficking operations ...

Jamaica on Thursday welcomed with cautious optimism US President Donald Trump’s executive order rescheduling marijuana to a lower drug classification, describing the move as a major signal in the ...

NEW YORK -- Reggae music executive Horatio Hamilton was found guilty Tuesday of conspiring to traffic in over a ton of marijuana a week for seven years, federal court officials said. Hamilton, ...

The very first woman-owned marijuana dispensary celebrated its grand opening on March 30, 2023, in Jamaica, Queens. Owned by Ecstasy Jones, Good Grades Dispensary is also the first dispensary to open ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica is running low on ganja. Heavy rains followed by an extended drought, an increase in local consumption and a drop in the number of marijuana farmers have caused a ...