But those partnerships came under threat when the US banks learnt their Uruguayan counterparts were accepting marijuana money. Uruguay might be a sovereign country, but it's still affected by the ...

For instance, cannabis is still classified as an illegal substance by the U.S. federal government, although over half of the country's states have state-sanctioned medical marijuana programs.

Colorado became the first state in the United States to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana Now that it has been nearly a year CNBC takes a look at some of the statistics and numbers ...

Last year, Lesotho became the first African country to legalise the cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purposes, spawning a new sector in a country where the economy struggles to create ...

2017. Pharmacies in Uruguay start selling marijuana from Wednesday under the final phase of a four-year-old law that made the small South American country the first in the world to legalize pot ...