Jailed some 40 times on various drug and theft charges, Jelly Roll was pardoned on Dec. 18 by the Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee. The country-music star has admitted to robbing "a couple of guys for some weed" in 1999 with a gun that led to an eight-year sentence.
New York's likely next mayor, 33-year-old Assembly member Zohran Mamdani, was a big supporter of the state's marijuana legalization legislation in 2021. He recently said, "I’ve purchased marijuana at a legal cannabis shop."
Wiz Khalifa has been sentenced to nine months in a Romanian jail for illegal drug use stemming from smoking joints on stage at the Beach, Please! festival in Costinești on July 13, 2023.
Due to violent crime and kidnappings, the U.S. State Department warns Americans from going to six Mexican states and suggests to reconsider visiting seven others. The good news is the country's homicide rate has declined 33% since 2019.
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