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A woman jailed for importing cannabis has had sentence reduced by eight months – but the court refused a request to increase the sentence of a second woman for drugs offences. Valisa Holder appealed against a 2½-year sentence imposed in Magistrates' Court, while the Crown asked to have the...

Because Hai Thi Pham was growing 1,110 marijuana plants in a high-rise building in north west Toronto, in an apartment she didn't own, she should have received a mandatory minimum sentence of two - maybe three - years in prison. But an Ontario judge called that sentence cruel, unusual, and...

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...

Drug crimes still carry the death penalty in some places across the world. Many Americans might argue that drug laws – particularly marijuana possession laws – are too harsh in the United States. Still, compared to some other countries, American drug laws are relatively relaxed. The...