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Sixty percent of National voters want personal possession of cannabis decriminalized or made legal, a poll released just weeks before the election reveals. Support is even higher among supporters of other parties – with Labor and New Zealand First voters equally in favour of cannabis law...

A Silver Springs man was arrested Thursday on warrants for marijuana cultivation and possession of drug paraphernalia. Drug agents said Walter Arthur Carpenter admitted that marijuana found in a room he rents belonged to him and that he learned to take care of the plants by watching YouTube...

Cannabis could lower a person's risk of having a stroke, new research claims. Medical strains of the drug are prescribed across more than half of the United States to treat chronic pain, anxiety and epilepsy. It is controversial; as more states legalize the drug, scores of medical...

Paraguay is a global marijuana powerhouse: The small South American country produces 9 percent of the world's supply. But until recently, it wasn't common there to see drug raids or hear helicopters thumping overhead in search of plantations. That's all changing. Last June, Paraguay's most...

If you look around, chances are you won't find many marijuana stocks struggling. In fact, over the trailing one-year period, 12 out of 13 pot stocks with a market cap above $200 million had risen, with a majority up by at least 100%! Marijuana stocks are mostly budding A pretty steady...

A few of us may know, or can infer, what the genera vitis or nicotiana refer to. Fewer, perhaps, malus or pyrus. How many of us are familiar with solanum? Humulus? Triticum? Hordeum? Zea? Marijuana. Pot. Weed. Ganja. Reefer. Whacky tobacky. There are countless names for the drug that has...

A cannabis dealer claimed to smoke 20 joints a day when he was caught with a bag of the drug in his car and a "tick list" on his phone. A police officer smelled cannabis as he approached 28-year-old Mozafar Shan's Toyota on Green Lane, Marske, and the driver handed over a small amount of...

While a high-profile case is under way at the Pretoria High Court regarding the legalization of marijuana, we spoke to a few international experts at the Drug Policy Week conference to get their views on this controversial topic. Dr. Raquel Peyraube, Clinical Director of ICEERS and Advisor...

A routine highway traffic stop Monday afternoon led to one of the largest drug busts in state Highway Patrol history. Harold Miller, 71, of Sacramento, Calif., was stopped in his Dodge minivan on eastbound I-94 between Mandan and Bismarck for minor traffic violations Aug. 7. During the stop...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, among the most well-known living scientists this side of Stephen Hawking, said this week that "there's no reason for [marijuana] to ever have been made illegal." The remark came in response to a question submitted by Tom Angell of the pro-legalization group...

A Former Coronation Street actor who played a drug dealer in the soap and was then jailed for selling cannabis faces a longer sentence if he doesn't pay back nearly £60,000. Christopher Hargreaves played five roles in the popular ITV soap in the 80s and 90s, with his final role being gangster...

Dozens of supporters for U.S. Sen. Cory Booker's proposed bill to legalize marijuana nationwide joined him in a kickoff rally on the steps of city hall Friday. Booker introduced the Marijuana Justice Act this week, a federal effort that would remove the drug from the list of controlled...

Today, under current laws in England and Wales, cannabis is almost always officially illegal. The Home Office tells us there are no plans to legalize the drug. When last debated in Parliament in 2015 the government announced "substantial scientific evidence shows cannabis is a harmful drug...

Adrien Robinson, the former New York Giants tight end, was arrested by Pennsylvania State Police on Monday. Robinson was charged with intent to deliver marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Robinson was stopped for a traffic violation and police found him to be in possession of 20...

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker introduced legislation Tuesday that would legalize marijuana at the federal level. Booker (D-N.J.) said current drug laws disproportionately hurt minority communities. "Our country's drug laws are badly broken and need to be fixed," Booker said. The Marijuana...

Hey all, I'm sure people ask questions like this all the time but looking for some answers I have a 10 panel drug screen in about 40 days (September 8th or 11th is about as far as I can push it off to) at Labcorp. I know they will not be observing me. I am a daily smoker at least 1 joint a day...

More people are smoking weed these days, sparking a haze of complications and confusion in the workplace. A growing number of states in the US – and countries around the world – are legalising or decriminalising recreational and medical marijuana, forcing businesses to grapple with how to deal...

Republican lawmakers have blocked an amendment to a bill that would have allowed veterans to access medical marijuana through federal doctors in states where the medicinal use of the drug is legal. The House Rules Committee removed the so-called "Veterans Equal Access" amendment from the...

Will cannabis be legalized in the UK? Currently anyone found possessing cannabis can be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison, an unlimited fine or both punishments under UK legislation. Supplying or producing the class B drug can land people in prison for a maximum of 14 years an...

A new Department of Justice report on violent crime and marijuana will pave the way for the Trump administration to crack down on the drug, campaigners and lawmakers say. The Trump administration's Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is to...