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After serving a five-year prison sentence for selling marijuana seeds to U.S. customers, Vancouver's Marc Emery is expected to cross the border back into Canada today, August 12.
In the eyes of the ATF, medical cannabis patients are either unlawful users of drugs, or worse, drug addicts, who should not bear arms. It’s been three years
If Kevin Sabet and Chris Christie were looking for a third member to play some acoustic crazy in their anti-cannabis garage band, they need look no further than Representative Andy Harris (R-MD).
Executives at GrowLife manipulated the company's share price to issue below-market shares to insiders, then dumped millions of shares in the market just before the company was suspended from trading, a shareholder claims in a derivative complaint.
Rates of current and lifetime marijuana use among Colorado high school students has dropped since the state made marijuana legal in 2012, according to a press release distributed today by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
A German woman has emigrated to Switzerland where she can get government supplied synthetic heroin that, she claims, is the reason she has been able to regain control of her life.
I don't even want to talk about this, but I am going to and I don't intend to mince words. In the long run I do believe even the most sensible and safest of us are still fucked. This is a whole new kinda bad news.
Marijuana patients claim in court that San Diego and the California Coastal Commission will foul the air, snarl traffic and force people to grow marijuana indoors, wasting energy and increasing global warming ...
Someone cut a large hole in the wall at a Georgetown medical-marijuana dispensary and made off with $50,000 worth of pot Wednesday morning, Seattle police said.
If yesterday's elections in Hazel Park and Oak Park are any indication, voters in cities and towns across Michigan will be standing up for sensible marijuana policies in November. Voters in both communities voted to make it legal ...
The biggest opponents of legal weed are pharmaceutical, alcohol and beer companies, private prison corporations and police unions. Among the largest donors to Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, a New York City-based nonprofit, are ...
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of August 06, 2014:
Catalonia's public health agency has proposed strict new measures to regulate cannabis clubs in the region, amid claims that Barcelona is on its way to rivaling Amsterdam as a smoker's haven. The number of clubs in Spain has proliferated from some 40 in 2010 to more than...
The D.C. Board of Elections has officially certified Ballot Initiative 71 for November's general election. If passed by a majority of D.C. voters, Initiative 71 will repeal...
A North Miami Beach police officer is so worried about the possibility of Florida approving medical marijuana in the November election that he distributed a mass email which apparently contained a plethora of pot propaganda aimed at ...
The SEC on Tuesday charged four stock promoters with manipulating prices of microcap companies, "including marijuana-related stocks that the agency has warned investors about in recent weeks."
The US House of Representatives displayed an uncommon level of common sense when it decided to take up the issue of roadway safety in the wake of state liberalizations of cannabis policy. However, studies of drivers under the influence had conflicting results depending on how the data was analyzed.
San Francisco Weekly’s Chris Roberts recently estimated the demand for legalized marijuana in California to be $2.1 billion. Angela Bacca explores the...
