Recreational marijuana could be legal in half the country if the handful of states with cannabis measures on ballots this November pass them. Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota have measures on their ballots this fall for voters to consider legalizing recreational marijuana. They would join 19 states and the District of Columbia with recreational […]
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Drug Abuse: Unstated Challenge to the Progress of Pakistan
The rate of drug use in Pakistan is exponentially increasing. According to a UN report on drugs by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in 2013, almost 7.6 million people in Pakistan are into drugs. After 2013, no concrete data has been collected to determine the scope of drug abuse in Pakistan. […]
Increasing drugs culture in Pakistan
Over years, drug use in the younger generation has spiked up drastically in Pakistan. Hash, Dirty Hash, weed (different types of Marijuana) Ecstasy, Crystal, Cocaine, Ice…… are now available more easily and to a younger market. Oxygen is another relatively new addiction. It is a subject people will not want to discuss, to accept their […]
Pioneering Uruguay set to begin exporting medical marijuana
Already the first country in the world to legalize recreational use of marijuana, Uruguay now aims to go further by becoming the first in Latin America to export it for medicinal purposes. It’s taken a year to get to this point but in Nueva Helvecia — 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of the capital Montevideo […]