TAG / CANNABIS

Smugglers are stuffing meth, heroin and cocaine into shipments of vegetables, cheese and fruit. The strategy exploits perishable goods to evade inspection.

Tempted by high rent offers, landlords unwittingly become hosts to criminal drug operations that put entire communities at risk.

New studies show marijuana users are significantly more likely to suffer heart attacks, strokes and premature death—yet most still think it’s harmless.

THC-infused beverages now account for 15 percent of Minnesota liquor chain sales, with daily cannabis use surpassing alcohol consumption.

Once a championship-winning athlete, Emmanuel-Thomas now faces up to 14 years in prison for trafficking 132 pounds of cannabis from Thailand.

With near-daily use now the norm for millions, the cannabis boom is fast revealing its human cost—and it’s hitting youth the hardest.

More than 40 kids as young as 12 were used to smuggle drugs in a network whose ringleaders were sent to jail.

“Debt bondage” victims found themselves kidnapped and enslaved on illegal cannabis farms, servicing a pot industry that is booming in the UK.

A Canadian study, released this month, revealed that marijuana addicts died at almost three times the rate of non-addicts.

The effect of undeclared pesticides are multiplied when found in dangerous cannabis, which is combusted on use, and burrows deep into human lungs.