organized crime

The five years after Canada legalized recreational cannabis have produced enough data for researchers to look at important questions like how organized crime is affected by legalization, or not. A recent study, published in Sociological Inquiry, explores how the shift to a legal market has reshaped...

Thousands of immigrants working on southern Oregon's illegal marijuana farms are living in squalid conditions, reported Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), prompting Jackson County and Douglas County to declare a state of emergency. County officials requested state funding and other...

Medical marijuana has been legalized in Mexico since June 2017 and, in 2018, Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice ruled that banning the plant was unconstitutional. On April 30, 2021, Mexico's Congress failed to pass adult-use legalization orders that were handed down by five Supreme...

While marijuana and marijuana-laced products have fantastical monikers like "magic brownies" and "magic dragons," the extraordinary capabilities of cannabis are often limited to claims of alleviated stress and pain reception. However, a pair of articles has now offered two...