Category: Cannabis News

Colombia’s Bold Cannabis Diplomacy Challenges U.S. Drug Policy As tensions between the U.S. military and Colombia heightened over alleged drug interdiction operations, Colombian President Gustavo Petro chose a rather unexpected course of action in a move that took place on October 28, 2025. Instead of continuing to release diplomatic protests over U.S. military attacks on…

Cannabis Shows Promise for Dementia Patients’ Behavioral Issues In October 2025, a systematic review of 10 studies with a total of 278 subjects demonstrated that cannabinoids significantly reduced agitation and nighttime disturbances in elderly patients with dementia. Such studies are a ray of hope for families struggling to manage BPSD in their loved ones. BPSD…

Nearly 190,000 Americans Arrested for Cannabis in 2024—Despite Legalization Marcus Johnson was 23 years old when police stopped him and found cannabis, rolled as a joint, in his car, and were arresting him for it. He was not driving the vehicle under the influence. He was not selling. He possessed one of these joints—the same…

Germany’s Pain Revolution: Cannabis Oil Outperforms Opioids When 52-year-old Munich schoolteacher Sarah Mueller couldn’t stand for more than 10 minutes due to recurring back pain, she was faced with a common enough dilemma – endure pain or give in to opioid abuse. With unprecedented European clinical trials revealed as late as this week in October…

Colombia’s Psychoactive Cannabis Revolution: Patients to Access Smokable Flower for First Time Medellín chronic pain patient Carlos Ramírez, 47, has had to wait nine years for this day—Colombia’s draft decree of July 2025 finally opens up pharmacies to selling psychoactive cannabis flower with the prescription of doctors, ending the nation’s export-only oddity. Carlos Ramírez had…

American Basketball Player Faces Death Penalty in Indonesia Over Medical Cannabis Texas basketball player Jarred Shaw has been arrested in Jakarta could be given capital punishment after having delivered 869 grams of cannabis gummies, claiming to alleviate incurable Crohn’s disease, exposing lethal consequences of cannabis prohibition throughout Southeast Asia. Jarred Shaw, a 35-year-old American basketball…

South Africa Emerges as Cannabis Export Leader with National Master Plan South Africa is gearing up as an international cannabis giant with the support of the government pushing cultivation and export licences, as the country’s intentions to dominate global commercial hemp and cannabis production are announced by President Ramaphosa. South Africa has become the continental…

International Study Shows Medical Cannabis Cuts Tobacco And Amphetamine Use Historic 20-nation research uncovers that medical cannabis legalization generates “strong negative associations” between cannabis and tobacco, and cannabis and amphetamine use, indicating citizens replace cannabis with more dangerous drugs. Medical cannabis markets sold an average 26 tons per year in legal nations, and evidence suggests…

Weed Before Wine? Study Shows Cannabis Can Cut Heavy Drinking A federally funded human-lab study released recently found heavy users consumed about a quarter fewer alcoholic drinks—and had lower desire—when they inhaled legal cannabis prior to alcohol consumption. The study supports the case for cannabis as a harm-reduction substitute for some individuals who are not…

UK Clinicians Get Hands-On Training To Turn Policy Into Patient Access The cannabis debate in the UK is shifting from “if” to “how,” and a new one-day CPD-credited symposium is targeted straight at that gap. The conference provides practical, case-based teaching for experts, GPs and pharmacists: when to consider a trial of cannabis medicines, how…