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According to Kentucky.com, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes - whose tight race against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is receiving national media attention - said it is "worthwhile" for elected officials to discuss the prospect of making marijuana legal in the state of Kentucky.
Bragging about an illegal marijuana operation and posting it on YouTube for the whole world to see is, well, maybe not the best idea. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police busted Jason Pelletier and his wife, Stephanie, on Friday after being tipped off...
This upcoming election season should prove to be of great importance in regards to legalizing cannabis, and de-fanging the wildly overblown "drug war" mentality that has locked this country into decades of wrongful prosecutions and ill-advised polices.
Anti-cannabis proponents in Florida have reached a new low, with an ad campaign that likens cannabis to a date rape drug. "No On Amendment 2", an anti-legalization group released an ad which insinuates that medical cannabis will be used as a date rape drug if legalized.
Authorities say they received a call earlier this week from a Hertz Rent-A-Car location near Albuquerque International Sunport claiming that a customer had just turned in a vehicle loaded up with nearly 140 pounds of “high grade” weed crammed into several trash bags in the trunk of the rental car.
A former business partner stole secret formulas for "cannabis-based health products" for pets, two veterinarians claim in court. The defendants' website promises: "Your pet will not get 'high' or in trouble with the law."
While the nation focuses on marijuana legalization initiatives in Alaska, the District of Columbia, and Oregon, a California initiative of defelonization that would turn drug possession felonies into misdemeanors is quietly heading for a likely victory at the polls in November.
"Scratch & sniff" cards are to be distributed by police officers to the public in Northern Ireland so people will recognise the smell of cannabis growing. The scratch card contains an element that replicates the smell of cannabis in its growing state, which is a different smell to when it is being smoked.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of September 24, 2014:
The Marijuana Policy Project, a U.S. marijuana advocacy group, took steps Wednesday to begin raising money for a campaign to legalize recreational pot use in California in 2016, a move with potential to add a dose of extra excitement to the presidential election year.
Medical cannabis patients and industry teamed up to win an important victory in Nevada yesterday. A crowd of more than 100 patients, industry workers, lawmakers, and other stakeholders persuaded the state's Division of Public and Behavioral Health to abandon plans to limit the number of licensed cultivation facilities authorized under state law.
A bill to legalize the use of medical marijuana in Pennsylvania has cleared the state Senate and now heads to the state House of Representatives. Senate Bill 1182 would allow people with certain conditions to use medical marijuana...
It’s easy to see how the easily accessible retail marijuana market has made the Colorado police nervous, which has led to campaigns to inform the public about the consequences of driving impaired.
Albania's Interior Ministry says the country's authorities have destroyed 102 tons of marijuana and 530,000 cannabis plants since March with an estimated market value of 6.4 billion euro ($8.2 billion) this year
Greene finished her statement with a mic dropping sign off that can only be described as badass, "And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but, fuck it, I quit."
Advocates of an effort to make marijuana legal for adults and regulated similarly to alcohol in Arizona in 2016 have filed paperwork with state elections officials, granting them permission to raise money to campaign for the citizen's initiative.
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel called on the General Assembly to decriminalize marijuana possession statewide and to reduce the penalty to a misdemeanor for those caught with 1 gram or less of any controlled substance.
Two New Mexico counties can poll voters about decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana on November's ballot, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled.
