Popular Canadian rapper, Drake has signed up with his country’s biggest cannabis producers to launch a fully-licensed joint venture to produce and distribute marijuana. The move is also to promote ‘More Life Growth Company’, his new firm, which appears to be named after his 2017 project ‘More Life’. On Tuesday, the singer took to his […]

Do you know that abuse of alcohol and marijuana in one phase of life can affect your next generation, even long after you may have stopped using them?

Nonso Ikoku (real name withheld) was an undergraduate. He had friends who did music. Sometime in April 2019, while on holiday, Nonso joined them for a concert. Before they got upstage, one of them gave him a wrap of Indian hemp laced with another narcotic substance. Nonso is not your typical partygoer. Usually shy around […]

The inspiration for this piece comes from the CNN Julie Chatterley show, aired between 2 pm and 3 pm on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. It was titled, “Politics of cannabis”. They discussed whether states should be free to decide on the question of legalisation of cannabis or not. As at the last count, 30 states in the United States of America, have given their approval for the use of marijuana. Some countries in Europe such as The Netherlands had done so in the past.

ENUGU – NON governmental Organization, Parent-Child Intervention Centre, PCIC, Wednesday, called on the Federal and state governments to check influx of marijuana-laced edibles through ports in the country.

Thai farmers welcomed a new law allowing cultivation and use of marijuana for medical purposes Wednesday, in an Asian first that promises an economic bonanza but also fears that foreign companies could reap the rewards.

Day two of legal recreational marijuana in Canada on Thursday saw more long lineups outside pot stores and supply shortages in parts of the country.

Nearly a century of marijuana prohibition came to an end Wednesday as Canada became the first major Western nation to legalise and regulate its sale and recreational use.

The Police Command in Enugu State has commenced investigation into an incident that led to a 24-year-old man committing suicide after an overdose of marijuana.

Teenagers who smoke cannabis for just three years could be  damaging their long-term memory, researchers have warned. Participants in a study who used the drug daily for around three years in their teens had an abnormally shaped hippocrampus—a region of the brain vital to memory by the time they were in their early 20s.

‘Teenagers  who smoke cannabis for just three years could be damaging their long-term memory, researchers have warned. Participants in a study who used the drug daily for around three years in their teens had an abnormally shaped hippocrampus—a region of the brain vital to memory by the time they were in their early 20s, they also performed around 18 per cent worse in long-term memory tests than individuals who had never touched the drug.

The Trump administration’s decision to enforce federal anti-marijuana laws has sent shivers through users, medical patients and businesses encouraged by the growing number of states legalizing the drug.

An elderly American couple’s Christmas plans went up in smoke after they were caught by police with a giant stash of pot — which they said they planned to give as gifts

MAKURDI—A 70-year-old man, Adzua Kwagah, has been arrested by men of Benue State Police Command for being in possession of over 1,000 kilogrammes of substance suspected to be marijuana.

The police, on Wednesday, arraigned three men before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court, presided over by Mr Jimoh Adefioye for alleged possession of six wraps of marijuana.