California is asking for support and a presidential emergency declaration to aid with the impacts of storms battering the state. This comes as another atmospheric river brings rain and snow to the Golden State. Lawmakers proposed a new bill to ban U.S.-based retirement funds from investing in China. NTD spoke to the resolution’s author to […]
Experts and public health advocates are voicing concerns about the rise in flavored cannabis products that appear to be marketed toward teenagers and young adults. The concerns come as New York, which legalized recreational marijuana—also known as cannabis—in March 2021, has opened more legal outlets for the recreational use of the psychoactive drug in recent months. Its first legal […]
A recent home shooting left six dead in the state’s Central Valley. Authorities are still searching for the two suspects. Residents across the state are now grappling with the aftermath of the weeks-long storms. Some roads have become small rivers due to flooding. San Francisco’s reparations panel released a new draft recommendation to give $5 […]
Cigarettes and prescription opioids were once touted by the medical establishment—until the fallout from addiction and abuse became too big to deny. Ben Cort says we’re on the same path with legalizing marijuana and turning it into big business, since any industry with addictive potential follows a similar trajectory. “It’s just inevitable that in a […]
DALLAS—Former NBA player Iman Shumpert was arrested at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport last weekend for allegedly trying to bring six ounces of cannabis through security. The police report from the DFW Airport Department of Public Safety shows police were called to a TSA checkpoint at about 3:40 p.m. on Saturday, July 30 and […]
MOSCOW—Jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner on Thursday pleaded guilty to drug possession during her trial in Moscow but said she had no intention of committing a crime. Russian news reports quoted Griner as saying through an interpreter at the court hearing that she had acted unintentionally because she was packing in haste. Griner was […]
MOSCOW—WNBA player Brittney Griner was ordered Monday to stand trial by a court near Moscow on cannabis possession charges, about 4.5 months after her arrest at an airport while returning to play for a Russian team. The Phoenix Mercury center and two-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist also was ordered to remain in custody for the […]
BAYSIDE, Calif.—Three third-grade students at a Northern California elementary school were hospitalized after inadvertently eating cannabis gummies, authorities said. A student shared the gummies with four other children during their snack recess on Thursday at Jacoby Creek Elementary in the Humboldt County community of Bayside, police and school officials said. The student who brought the […]
TISHOMINGO, Okla.—The teenage driver of a small car that collided with a large truck in Oklahoma, killing all six occupants in the car, tested negative for alcohol but positive for cannabis after her death, according to a preliminary report released Thursday. The teens were on a school lunch break in a Chevrolet Spark that is […]
