Marijuana

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has unveiled sweeping executive action that would pardon everyone in the state convicted of simple marijuana possession. In a statement on March 13, the Democrat governor described the act as a “nation-leading” effort that could impact the lives of “hundreds of thousands” of people. If approved by the Massachusetts Governor’s Council, […]

Law enforcement officials in Georgia have arrested four Chinese nationals in connection with a Marijuana grow operation with an estimated street value of $22.3 million. The four Chinese nationals—identified as Zhu Sheng Bing, Jinpeng Ma, Chenhui Shu, and Wei Sheng Deng—were arrested and booked last week, following a joint operation involving the Georgia Department of […]

KINGFISHER, Okla.—A man was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to killing four workers at an Oklahoma marijuana farm in 2022. Chen Wu pleaded guilty at a court hearing Friday to four counts of first-degree murder and to one count of assault and battery with a deadly weapon in connection with the Nov. […]

A bipartisan group of 50 senators and House members are requesting Attorney General Merrick Garland to provide information on illegal marijuana cultivation operations in the United States that are tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The lawmakers, led by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine), Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.), Sen. Joni Ernst […]

A lawyer for the California woman who avoided prison time after fatally stabbing her boyfriend during a marijuana-induced psychosis has applauded the judge’s mild sentence, while warning about the lesser known dangers of the drug. Medical experts from both the defense and the prosecution agreed that Bryn Spejcher, 33, suffered an acute psychotic episode after […]

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 […]

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 marijuana problem troubling the state of Maine. The Pine Tree State reportedly becoming a ground zero for illegal Chinese grow operations. Hundreds of suspected grow sites are estimated to bring in over $4 billion in revenue, but local law enforcement is having trouble busting them. More on the challenges they face.  

NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in Virginia was sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in prison for using marijuana while owning a firearm, which is illegal under U.S. law. Deja Taylor’s son took her handgun to school and shot Abby Zwerner in her first-grade classroom in January, seriously wounding […]

Ohio has become the 24th state in America to vote to allow adult marijuana use for recreational purposes. Ohio voters approved Issue 2, the “Marijuana Legalization Initiative” ballot measure legalizing recreational marijuana use on Nov. 7, with around 57 percent of voters in favor of legalization at 95 percent of the state’s precincts reporting. The […]

Older adults who don’t smoke tobacco but do use marijuana were at higher risk of both heart attack and stroke when hospitalized, while people who use marijuana daily were 34 percent more likely to develop heart failure, according to two new non-published studies presented Monday at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia. “Observational […]

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 […]

In California, state officials recently announced the state’s largest-ever drug bust operation involving illegal marijuana. But the local sheriff says the bust would account for less than one percent of the black market cannabis grown in his county. NTD’s Jack Bradley spoke to Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue from Siskiyou County, Northern California.  

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 […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—The weapons supervisor on the film set where Alec Baldwin shot and killed a cinematographer was drinking and smoking marijuana in the evenings during the filming of “Rust,” prosecutors are alleging, saying she was likely hungover when she loaded a live bullet into the revolver that the actor used. They leveled the accusations Friday […]

NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in Virginia pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to using marijuana while possessing a firearm, which is illegal under U.S. law. Deja Taylor is accused of lying about her marijuana use on a form when she bought the gun, which her son later […]

A growing number of Americans are testing positive for THC—the compound in marijuana—while at work. And it’s causing more workplace accidents. To learn more about this and potential solutions, NTD spoke with an addiction treatment expert, Ben Cort. He’s the author of “Weed, Inc.”