Costa Rica legalized hemp last March. According to the rules announced last week, licenses to grow and produce hemp...
The first committee of the Colombian House of Representatives approved in first debate a project to legalize cannabis for adult use in Colombia....
On Wednesday evening, the President of the Republic of Panama, Laurentino Cortizo, signed an executive decree approving Law 242, which regulates the medical use of cannabis,...
The small South American country of Guyana has adopted an industrial hemp law that decriminalizes hemp cultivation and paves the way for a...
Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has announced plans to legalize cannabis. At the official ceremony commemorating the first 100 days of...
As regular Newsweed consumers will have noticed, we've been on hiatus for the past 2 weeks. But since there's no news to wait for us, here's a...
By virtue of a resolution from the National Seed Institute (INASE), the purchase and sale of cannabis seeds is now legal in Argentina. Resolution 260/2022, which...
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has published its World Drug Report 2022, which provides an in-depth analysis...
On Tuesday, Brazil's Superior Court of Justice authorized three patients to cultivate cannabis for medical purposes, a decision that should be applied...
After more than four and a half years of legalization, Uruguay's legal cannabis market serves between 39% and 56% of the country's cannabis consumers....
Setting limits on the amount of cannabis a person can have for personal use is unconstitutional, Mexico's Supreme Court has ruled in...
The province and city of Oaxaca, Mexico, seem weary of waiting for the future regulation of cannabis to be implemented. A few weeks ago,...
The last few miles are often the hardest. This is the case for the bill to legalize cannabis in Belize, a small country in Latin America...
Almost a year after putting its first foot in cannabis exports, Colombia is putting its second foot down. The government has just published Resolution n°539,...
Argentina's Ministry of Health announced at the end of March that associations will now be able to legally cultivate cannabis plants for medical purposes in...
The President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, signed the law on medical cannabis and industrial hemp on Wednesday morning, a day...
The leaders of an ancient South American empire used a psychedelic beer to maintain political control over their society and the surrounding communities, according to a...
It now seems unlikely that Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado will sign the bill to legalize medical cannabis and the...
In a second and final vote on Thursday, Costa Rica's Congress approved the legalization of medical cannabis and industrial hemp. The text...
In Uruguay, lawmakers from Jose Mujica's Frente Amplio party, which spearheaded the country's legalization of cannabis in 2014, have presented a...
