While the federal government has spent years claiming hemp is a dangerous drug, farmers in 17 states are using it to create a variety of useful products.

The NFL has denied a player’s request to use medicinal cannabis, forcing him to use highly addictive opioid painkillers to treat his chronic pain if he wants to continue playing football.

While 4/20 celebrations take place across the country, more than 100 Americans will die from an opioid overdose that could have been prevented if they had access to cannabis.

One state is suing opioid manufacturers and distributors to pay for the creation of mental health clinics and opioid abuse treatment program.

While the United States controls more than 90 percent of the world’s opium supply in Afghanistan, the rate of Americans who are addicted to heroin and who have died from drug overdoses has skyrocketed.

Major pharmaceutical companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars covering up lawsuits over suicides and mass murders caused by popular antidepressants.

Alaska is one step away from enacting a law that would legalize the regulation and production of industrial hemp, and provide for hemp pilot programs.

(TFTP) New York City has become the latest city to hold Big Pharma accountable for the role it has played in the Opioid Epidemic. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city has filed a $500 million lawsuit against eight major drug companies that distribute prescription opioids because it is “time for Big Pharma to pay […]

(TFTP) As more than half of the states in the country recognize the power of cannabis and choose to legalize it in some form, the federal government still blindly claims that it has no medicinal value, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly rescinding a policy that keeps federal prosecutors from aggressively enforcing federal law […]

(TFTP) Police in Ohio are blaming a lack of resources for the fact that unsolved homicide cases greatly outnumber the cases that are solved, yet they seem to have the resources to arrest thousands of suspected cannabis users. The failed War on Drugs is alive and well in the state of Ohio where an average […]

(TFTP) The latest survey on support for cannabis legalization found that a clear majority of Americans are in favor legalizing the plant that the federal government claims is among one of the deadliest drugs in the country. According to a survey from Harvard-Harris Poll, 86 percent of Americans now support some form of cannabis legalization—with […]

(TFTP) In an unprecedented move, Oregon is on its way to becoming the first state to decriminalize small amounts of hard drugs such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and ecstasy, while also lowering the penalty from a felony to a misdemeanor in some drug-related cases. Two groundbreaking bills were passed by the Oregon legislature this week, […]

Colorado became the first state in history to generate more tax revenue in marijuana sales than in alcohol, after numbers from 2014-2015 revealed that the state generated nearly $70 million from taxes on marijuana sales, and only under $42 million on alcohol sales.