“John Wick: Chapter 4” actor Bill Skarsgard has been fined nearly $4,000 after he was arrested for drug possession at an airport in the capital of Sweden. According to TMZ, authorities took the 33-year-old Swedish native into custody in October for possessing 2.43 grams of cannabis at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport. On Feb. 14, Mr. Skarsgard […]
Bryn Spejcher, the Californian woman who was found guilty in December of involuntary manslaughter after killing her boyfriend during a cannabis-induced psychosis, was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation, 100 hours of community service, and no prison time. In a packed courtroom, Ventura County Superior Court Judge David Worley ruled that Ms. Spejcher, now […]
The new Thai government has reversed the country’s decision to decriminalize cannabis for medicinal and recreational use, following public backlash. A bill to amend the current cannabis legislation was introduced last weekend, and will be submitted to the country’s Parliament for review near the end of the month. “We drafted this law to prohibit the […]
President Joe Biden said Friday that he will commute the sentences of nearly a dozen people who have been serving “disproportionally long” prison sentences for non-violent drug offenses. These individuals, President Biden said, “would have been eligible to receive significantly lower sentences if they were charged with the same offense today.” The president will also […]
A new study has found that marijuana users have statistically higher levels of lead and cadmium in their blood and urine compared to people who don’t use the drug. In the study, published in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal on Aug. 30, researchers said that they compared cannabis users who exclusively used the drug to […]
It’s back to school day for many students. In Los Angeles County, over 500,000 students retuned to the classrooms for the first day of school. Billboards are springing up around Los Angeles, but not with advertisements. They feature the faces of murder victims. Officials in California recently announced the largest-ever drug bust operation involving illegal […]
Southern California’s city of El Monte raided a gang and arrested several members. The gang has ties to a previous shooting that killed two officers. Twitter, now rebranded as X, has a new competitor. China-owned TikTok is now expanding its own features to support text-only posts. State lawmakers are considering putting restriction on cannabis labeling. […]
A new report finds that nonprofit hospitals profited tremendously during the pandemic. What does this say about the health care system in America? The CEO of the watchdog group joins us to explore the situation. Thousands of illegal immigrants are gathering at the U.S.–Mexico border as Title 42 ends. NTD is at the southern border with the latest […]
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 […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica—American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, expected to be one of the biggest draws at the Tokyo Olympics, will miss the 100 meters at the Games after accepting a one-month ban for testing positive for cannabis during her U.S. trials victory in June. The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) confirmed the suspension on Friday, though the […]
