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 ...

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 ...

*(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

A Staten Island man was arrested and criminally charged with robbing a teenager at gunpoint in Kew Gardens in October after ...

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, ...

Dark alley weed purchases may soon be a thing of the past for those looking to soak up more than just the sun in Jamaica. The country’s Cannabis Licensing Authority proposed an idea that would have ...

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 ...