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A Coffee County man who has already been in federal prison three times for growing marijuana may be headed back after his indictment on charges of conspiring to grow more than 1,000 plants of the illegal weed. George Darryl Harper, 61, had been charged in Coffee County Superior Court, but...

Over a decade ago, British father Daniel Holmes was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in Corradino Correctional Facility for growing five cannabis plants in his flat in Gozo. His flatmate, Barry Lee, who was arrested alongside him, committed suicide while under arrest and awaiting sentencing...

A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Thursday, remanded one 87-year-old woman, Maria Agbomabiwon, in prison custody for dealing in 10.3 kg of Marijuana. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) dragged the accused, who resides at No. 9, Osunba Street, Oto-Awori, Ijaniki, Lagos, to the...

Pentonville Prison CCTV cameras captured the moment a drug dealer attempted to fly a drone loaded with cannabis and mobile phones into Pentonville Prison. In the footage, a plain-clothes detective can be seen rushing from his undercover car after spotting the pilot-less aircraft hovering...

A group of Dutch entrepreneurs, united under the name Legal Cannabis Coalition (LCC), wants to cultivate cannabis in the former Breda prison known in Dutch as the Koepelgevangenis, television program Brandpunt reports. The entrepreneurs and their companies have no experience in cannabis...

A bill to lower the penalty for marijuana possession of three ounces or less passed the Wyoming House of Representatives today. The vote for House Bill 137 was nearly unanimous with 52 votes in favor. Cheyenne Representative Jared Olsen sponsored the bill in an effort to save prison costs...

San Francisco - Free after eight years of federal imprisonment, one of the nation's most celebrated cannabis convicts came home to California on Wednesday, walking off a United Airlines flight into the warm embrace of supporters - and a profoundly changed world. Charles "Eddy" Lepp, a defiant...

The first time Paul Fields was sentenced for a marijuana offense, he got probation. The second time, he got 100 days in jail. The third time, he got more than 15 years in prison. That astonishing escalation was caused by a federal sentencing provision aimed at "career offenders," defined as...

Washington, DC: Eight percent of defendants sentenced to federal prison in 2015 were convicted of violating marijuana laws, according to a June 2016 federal report issued by the United States Sentencing Commission. According to the report, the US government prosecuted 71,184 cases in 2015 in...

Weldon Angelos could have spent 55 years in federal prison for selling marijuana - until reform advocates, President Barack Obama, and a federal court intervened to abruptly cut his sentence short at 12 years. Angelos, who's from Utah, had become a public face of America's broken and...

A judge sentenced Dale Schafer to 60 months federal prison in 2008, but now the attorney and celebrity drug-war is out - and getting back into marijuana. The 62-year-old resident of Roseville, a suburb just east of Sacramento, and his wife, Dr. Marion "Mollie" Fry, became a poster couple for...

A judge sentenced Dale Schafer to 60 months federal prison in 2008, but now the attorney and celebrity drug-war is out - and getting back into marijuana. The 62-year-old resident of Roseville, a suburb just east of Sacramento, and his wife, Dr. Marion "Mollie" Fry, became a poster couple for...

After more than two decades in prison, Jeff Mizanskey, an icon of the Missouri pro-cannabis movement, is enjoying the good life. He's spending time with his son and grandchildren. He's eating steak. In his six months of freedom, the 62-year-old has crisscrossed the country to spread the gospel...

In our fight to end the drug war, there may be no greater symbolism than a prison being turned into a cannabis grow facility. That is likely to happen in Coalinga, where the city council voted 4-1 in favor of an ordinance to allow commercial cannabis cultivation at the empty Claremont Custody...