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Police say wild crops of cannabis could be growing in fields across Devon after they found a second plantation within seven days. A week ago police found cannabis growing in a field in Tamerton, to the north of Plymouth, and have now found another east of the city in Plympton. Pc Greg...

Toronto Mayor John Tory believes the possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use should have been decriminalized "years ago" but says Toronto police should continue to target illegal dispensaries across the city. Tory's comments Tuesday came a day after the Toronto board of...

Legal marijuana is in the air across California, but local and state law enforcement agencies say they won’t retire their pot-sniffing narcotics dogs anytime soon. At first, it might seem like California’s legalization of recreational pot would render canine units’ weed-sensitive noses...

When the governor of Vermont vetoed a marijuana legalization bill this week, he said he was especially worried about stoned driving. He wants to hear more about an "impairment testing mechanism" to detect it. The problem is that no such mechanism exists. There is no Breathalyzer for pot...

Toronto’s Board of Health is calling on the federal government to decriminalize pot possession immediately as part has of a package of recommendations it adopted unanimously on the looming legalization of marijuana. The “fact it is still criminal is criminal,” board member and Councilor Paula...

The first recreational pot market in the U.S. was set Thursday to notch another marijuana first when Colorado approves using marijuana taxes to fund police efforts to crack down on illegal growing operations. A measure scheduled to be signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper sets aside...

A District woman is firing a novel legal challenge to the ambiguous marijuana laws in the nation's capital. U.S. Capitol Police seized Jessica Laycock's cannabis earlier this year on land under local police jurisdiction, but the charges against her were dropped. Now, she's fighting to get her...

For the first time in U.S. History, more Americans died in 2016 of drug overdoses than were killed in the Vietnam War. Let that sink in. Last year's death toll in the War on Drugs was 59,000 killed, while during the entire Vietnam War, 1955 to 1975, 58,220 American service members' lives were...

Orange County sheriff's deputy Colton Walsh told the man facing him to watch the movement of his index finger as Walsh swept it across his face. Then Walsh put the man, who had been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, through more tests, including shining a light in his eyes...

California lawmakers voted to keep state and local police from helping enforce federal anti-marijuana laws that conflict with state law. The state Assembly voted Thursday to shield Californians complying with state cannabis regulations like those legally operating a shop selling pot from being...

Perhaps some money does grow on trees. Last October Barrington police took possession of two waterproof suitcases found in some local woods. Each padlocked Pelican case was crammed with bundles of cash — in total $195,000. Someone had wedged one suitcase into a crook of a tree five feet off...

Legalized marijuana is throwing a learning curve at Northwest Arkansas' criminal justice system. Police must be trained to determine whether a driver is impaired by his medical marijuana use. Courts must adjust zero-tolerance policies to account for legal use. And some worry about how to stop...

France will introduce a law by year's end that will end prison terms for cannabis use, although consuming the drug will remain a criminal offense, a government spokesman said Friday. French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to reform laws on cannabis use in his election campaign manifesto...

Someone apparently inadvertently donated more than 100 grams of marijuana when they dropped off some used children's clothes a suburban Minneapolis shop. The Argus Leader reports (Person in Minn. mistakenly donates over 100 grams of pot ) that the Maplewood Police Department posted a photo on...

"More and more citizens are demanding marijuana use be permitted," Yohanan Danino, then Israel's police chief, observed in 2015. "I think the time has come for the Israel police, together with the state, to re-examine their stance on cannabis. I think we must sit and study what's happening...

I'm not a fan of driving while stoned – mostly because it makes me super paranoid – but I know plenty of other people who swear by it. When they do, they're going against the advice of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which claims marijuana "can slow reaction time, impair judgment of time...

Police in three California counties are testing what amounts to a breathalyzer for drug users – a device that some authorities and lawmakers said Wednesday is desperately needed now that voters have legalized recreational marijuana in the state. When legalization takes full effect next year...

Police in three California counties are testing what amounts to a breathalyzer for drug users — a device that some authorities and lawmakers said Wednesday is desperately needed now that voters have legalized recreational marijuana in the state. When legalization takes full effect next year...

Is 18 years in prison without the possibility of parole too harsh for a man arrested with 18 grams of marijuana? The Louisiana Supreme Court's chief justice thinks so, and she blasted her colleagues for upholding the punishment. In a withering dissent Wednesday, Chief Justice Bernette Johnson...

The mayor of Philadelphia says Pennsylvania should legalize marijuana so police don't have to expend resources on busts like the one in his city over the weekend, according to The Associated Press. Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, said Saturday's raid at a warehouse hosting a pot-smoking party...