Laws & Rights

Sal Aziz is a legally prescribed medical cannabis patient in the United Kingdom. In March 2024, he was pulled over while driving and immediately showed police his prescription. Despite this, he was arrested and charged with drug-impaired driving because his THC levels exceeded the legal limit — a limit designed for recreational users, not patients maintaining a therapeutic dose. In October 2025, a magistrates' court convicted him. The prosecution leaned on the fact that his m

In April 2026, the United States Department of Justice finalised the reclassification of cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act. It is the most significant shift in federal drug policy in the United States in decades, and it took over 50 years of advocacy, litigation, and science to get there. Schedule I vs Schedule III Schedule I classification, where cannabis has sat since 1970, means a substance is deemed to have no accepted medical us

Allen Russell is serving life in prison without parole. He was convicted in Mississippi for possessing an ounce and a half of cannabis. Not dealing. Not manufacturing. Possessing. His sentence was upheld by the Mississippi Supreme Court in 2021, triggered automatically by two prior burglary convictions from 2004. Across the United States, legal cannabis is now a multi-billion-dollar industry. Colorado alone collected nearly $200 million in tax revenue from cannabis sales in 2