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Decriminalisation campaigners suggest ending cannabis arrests could go a long way towards easing the workload for the police force. Rallies will be held outside 26 police stations around the country at 4pm today to call for a stop to all arrests involving the drug. Campaigners say cannabis...

Costa Mesa — Attorneys for the Costa Mesa Police Department filed a motion Monday seeking to move from state to federal court a lawsuit alleging officers exceeded their legal authority when they raided a former medical marijuana dispensary. Lawyers Dennis M. Cota and Daniel S. Roberts, who...

The death of her son last year ignited a debate about medicinal cannabis, now Nelson woman Rose Renton hopes he will become a face for change at a string of rallies around the country. Alex Renton died in Wellington Hospital last year after his family successfully petitioned the government to...

Marijuana activist Marc Emery — better known as the 'Prince of Pot' — caused a stir on social media Friday when he claimed during a live stream on Facebook that he thought he was being arrested. Emery began a live stream as several Toronto police officers gathered outside his shop, Cannabis...

Cannabis convictions in the Bay have fallen more than 70 per cent in the last six years - further fuelling calls for government action on drug law reform and prompting an expert to accuse police of turning a "blind eye". Ministry of Justice figures released under the Official Information Act...

On May 26, the RCMP conducted a raid of Toronto's medicinal marijuana dispensaries in a massive mobilization of police forces, which led to 90 arrests and 257 charges. Police also seized 270 kg of dried marijuana and other products which left many of the 43 targeted dispensaries in ruin. Why...

On May 26, the RCMP conducted a raid of Toronto's medicinal marijuana dispensaries in a massive mobilization of police forces, which led to 90 arrests and 257 charges. Police also seized 270 kg of dried marijuana and other products which left many of the 43 targeted dispensaries in ruin. Why...

Tim Burdick received a shock yesterday when he arrived at Sunrise Medicinal in downtown Barrie to find police had raided the marijuana dispensary and arrested employees. He had driven from his Oro-Medonte home to get medical marijuana to help him deal with the nausea and lack of appetite due to...

Tim Burdick received a shock yesterday when he arrived at Sunrise Medicinal in downtown Barrie to find police had raided the marijuana dispensary and arrested employees. He had driven from his Oro-Medonte home to get medical marijuana to help him deal with the nausea and lack of appetite due to...

On a recent sunny weekday morning in Center City Philadelphia, a man in a wheelchair decided to spark up a blunt. But the marijuana smoker's pleasure was interrupted by police officers who clearly saw him smoking near the SEPTA entrance on the northwest corner of 15th and Market streets...

Convictions in Rotorua for cannabis possession have fallen more than 66 per cent in the last six years - adding fuel to nationwide calls for government action on drug law reform. Ministry of Justice figures released under the Official Information Act to the Rotorua Daily Post reveal the...

For eight years, Rajuawn Middleton, an assistant at a major downtown law firm, lived in a four-bedroom, red-brick home she rented on a quiet, tree-lined street in Northeast Washington - until she was forced out over a few cigarettes containing a "green leafy substance." In March 2014 police...

A controversial cannabis festival may quit Teesside after a storm engulfed this year's event. Organisers of Canna Camp Fest say the event will definitely go ahead in 2017 - although it could be held in the Midlands. The pro-cannabis event sparked national headlines after police dealt with...

A businessperson whose London pot shop was raided by police days after opening is digging in for another battle with authorities. Police swooped down on Tasty Budd's medical marijuana dispensary on Whancliffe Road Wednesday, seizing its inventory and arresting two men. The store had opened...

A businessperson whose London pot shop was raided by police days after opening is digging in for another battle with authorities. Police swooped down on Tasty Budd's medical marijuana dispensary on Whancliffe Road Wednesday, seizing its inventory and arresting two men. The store had opened...

Nashville, TN - There have been a number of legal changes when it comes to marijuana in recent years, and Nashville could be the next city to chart its own course. An ordinance is calling for small amounts of marijuana to be decriminalized. Right now, anyone caught with half an ounce or less...

Driving impaired is driving impaired - it doesn't matter what substance a person's on, but Calgary police and their overseeing commission want to be ready when one in particular is legalized. This weekend in Ottawa, at a Canadian Association of Police Governance Conference, the Calgary Police...

Mayor Bill de Blasio campaigned on a pledge to tone down the NYPD's practice of turning possession of small amounts of marijuana into a crime, when officially it is supposed to be treated like a traffic ticket. So it may come as a surprise that marijuana arrests are up nearly a third so far this...

A former Hells Angel is suing Ottawa police for false arrest, alleging he was charged with illegally possessing weed even after he showed officers a medical marijuana licence issued by Health Canada for treatment of his post-traumatic stress disorder. In a statement of claim filed in Ottawa...

A former Hells Angel is suing Ottawa police for false arrest, alleging he was charged with illegally possessing weed even after he showed officers a medical marijuana licence issued by Health Canada for treatment of his post-traumatic stress disorder. In a statement of claim filed in Ottawa...