A Phoenix man who says he was forced by police to eat marijuana or go to jail has settled a lawsuit against the city for $100,000.
The Phoenix City Council approved the settlement Wednesday.
Edgar Castro was pulled over for speeding in September 2016 and police officers reported finding a...
Police officers should not routinely stop and search someone simply because they smell cannabis, according to official guidance.
While being caught in possession of the Class B drug can result in a five year prison sentence, police are being advised to walk away even if they strongly suspect...
The City of Vancouver isn't happy with a group of unlicensed vendors who have been selling cannabis products and edibles at Robson Square.
According to an officer with the VPD, an employee with the City of Vancouver had requested the help of officers this morning (Saturday, December 2) at the...
Ohio police departments are learning how to interpret the law and medical marijuana in the new year.
So they are turning to experts from Colorado for direction on arrests, cases and how to handle the drug in the field.
Blue Ash Police Chief Paul Hartinger said medical marijuana presents a...
Under a new Athens ordinance, those convicted of misdemeanor marijuana offenses will pay no fines.
The Athens Cannabis Ordinance passed by 77 percent with 2,000 votes. It aims to decrease the incentive for Athens police officers to enforce marijuana laws by removing the fines and court costs...
South Yorkshire Police said cannabis plants were found growing in a property in Gleadless yesterday.
A man was arrested at the house.
A police spokeswoman said: "Yesterday, officers attended an address in Gleadless and executed a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act.
"The occupant...
Acting on a tip from federal authorities, drug agents seized about $1 million worth of marijuana Wednesday from a house in Henry County, a spokesman said.
Officers with the Flint Circuit Drug Task Force found about 1,250 pounds of marijuana in a house on Chestnut Lane in the Stockbridge area...
Watermelons weren't the only thing found in a recent shipment that was crossing the border, according to news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Customs and Border Protection officers on Wednesday referred a white Freightliner tractor-trailer for secondary inspection as it was...
This spring, 16 state patrol officers from Colorado and Wyoming took a couple days off their usual work schedule to do something special. They assembled in a hotel conference room in Denver. As instructed, they wore street clothes for their first assignment: going shopping at nearby marijuana...
Curtis Nalls, 38, John Banks, 34, and Cassondra McDougald, 32, all of Niagara Falls are accused of conspiracy to smuggle more than 100 kilograms of marijuana into the United States from Canada, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
Border agents in November 2016 received information that...
Sacramento police detectives serving a search warrant at a Land Park home Tuesday made a potentially explosive discovery — a "very sophisticated" hash oil lab, authorities said.
Such illegal operations typically involve using butane to extract hash oil from marijuana plants and create a...
A Mexican national was arrested Saturday afternoon after he tried smuggling 310 pounds of marijuana into the United States through a port of entry in El Paso, officials said.
The drugs, which have an estimated street value of $248,000, were allegedly hidden in the bed, rear wall and door of...
Wichita City Hall security officers shut down activists who were trying to solicit signatures Thursday for a petition to reduce marijuana penalties.
Two petitioners, Janice Bradley and Russ Pataky, attempted to collect signatures in the lobby outside the City Council chamber as people arrived...
The Michigan Supreme Court says Kent County law enforcement violated the Constitution when they went after members of their own department for possessing marijuana-infused butter.
Now, the case will have to go back to court to determine whether the entire case against two Kent County...
A contingent of medical marijuana patients is pushing Seaside Heights officials to let them light up on the boardwalk where tobacco smokers do.
Seaside Heights Mayor Anthony Vaz said the borough council would consider the request of Edward "Lefty" Grimes and his two friends who had a civil...
A Pew Research Center survey of nearly 8,000 police officers finds that more than two-thirds of them say that marijuana use should be legal for either personal or medical use.
The nationally representative survey of law enforcement, one of the largest of its kind, found that 32 percent of...
It's early evening in a parking lot outside a DoubleTree in northeast Denver. At the north end of the lot is a 1987 Winnebago with seven people inside, gathered around a table covered with cannabis products: a concentrate pen, a dab rig, some bud flower and edibles. Once most of the group has...
Calaveras County supervisors on Tuesday will consider contracting with the California Highway Patrol to provide officers to escort building code inspectors when the inspectors visit cannabis farms.
County officials this year received more than 700 applications to register commercial cannabis...
Bangor, Maine - It has been a week since Mainers voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. However, even with a recount as a possibility, police officers are already looking at how they would enforce the new law.
The people have voted and it looks like recreational marijuana could be...
Ottawa police raided at least six marijuana dispensaries across the city in a coordinated operation on Friday morning.
The raids appeared to be targeted. The locations are all part of a B.C-based chain that began opening dispensaries in town this summer under the names Green Tree, WeeMedical...