Jamaica’s justice minister said Tuesday that legislation has been drafted to decriminalize marijuana on the Caribbean island where the drug has been pervasive but prohibited for a century. Mark ...

Two years after Jamaica began awarding cannabis licenses for medical, therapeutic and scientific uses, the first Caribbean country to decriminalize pot, or ganja, as it is known here, is still ...

Members of the local Rastafarian community have expressed mixed views on President Donald Trump’s recent signing of an ...

*(Via Black Voices) – Marijuana has been pervasive but illegal in Jamaica for decades, consumed as a medicinal herb, puffed as a sacrament by Rastafarians and sung about in the island’s famed reggae ...

Jamaica on Thursday welcomed with cautious optimism US President Donald Trump’s executive order rescheduling marijuana to a ...

Marijuana possession is currently illegal in Jamaica but that could soon change. The government of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has proposed to amend the Caribbean island nation's narcotics ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Taking a deep draw on a pipe that glows with burning marijuana, reggae luminary Bunny Wailer gives a satisfied grin through a haze of aromatic smoke in his concrete yard ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica is running ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Nearly 15,000 pounds (6,795 kilograms) of marijuana have gone up in smoke in Jamaica. The bonfire of seized drugs follows raids on marijuana-growing and trafficking operations ...

Western Australia could have the first medical marijuana health retreat in a few years. Singapore enacted law proposing up to 30 years in prison for possession of eight types of narcotics, including ...

NEW YORK -- Reggae music executive Horatio Hamilton was found guilty Tuesday of conspiring to traffic in over a ton of marijuana a week for seven years, federal court officials said. Hamilton, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica is running low on ganja. Heavy rains followed by an extended drought, an increase in local consumption and a drop in the number of marijuana farmers have caused a ...