The trend’s your friend: In the US, cannabis consumption lounges are poised to benefit from Gen Z consumers who are drinking less alcohol in what has been described as a generational cultural shift.

Westville dentist Anwar Mohamed Jeewa is facing murder charges after one of his patients succumbed at his clinic from opioid withdrawal. A subsequent police raid on the unregistered drug and alcohol treatment/detoxification facility, revealed not only ibogaine, but heroin, tik and cannabis on the premises.

Substance abuse in West Africa is spiralling out of control, with hybrid drugs coming onto the market that are aimed soley at creating addiction. Cannabis is the base for fentynal-laced Voodoo Kush, which is creating a social health crisis. Here we take you to the streets of Freetown for how the new drug is affecting ordinary people.

For decades April 20 has been a day to celebrate cannabis culture. But 4/20-related marketing may have become a victim of its own success as the meaning of the day as lost its initial mystique.

A Chinese student aired his anxieties about studying in Germany during an interaction with the visiting Chancellor, saying he feared he was going to be forced to smoke cannabis. 'Nein', said Scholz, who then came up with an eyebrow-raiser: that legalization was aimed at getting fewer people taking cannabis

DPP walks out of Parliament concerned that legalization will lead to the nation’s moral decay, and then walks back in, despite there was no substance to their protestations that the Bill will lead to moral decay, but could earn the country US$700 million

The same court that declared SAPS first cannabis seizure at the pharmacy last May was unlawful, it has given authorities a double dip at the pharmacy and has given SAHPRA powers of seizure for non-compliance and wants a new inspection to be coducted next Wednesday.

Cilo Cybin has long struggled to list its Special Purposes Acquisition Company (SPAC) on the JSE; last month it did so and it's first purchase will be the Cilo Cybin Pharmaceutical in Mindrand

Will cannabis investors never learn? A gang, as yet to be named, used European Expos to market their system of cannabis investment , promising profits of between 70% and 168%, according to Spanish police who have made multiple arrests

Parliament's Small Business Portfolio Committee calls on Government to urgently implement an adult-use cannabis commercial framework as a matter of urgency

Cannabis users have been celebrating in Germany after new laws legalising personal possession came into effect.

The Haze Club (THC) case was due to be heard in the Bloemfontein Supreme Court on 19 March 2024, but the matter has been postponed to the last quarter of this year. Charl Henning of Fields of Green for All looks at the pros and cons of the postponement.