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It may have one of the biggest bloopers in the stock market this year. In October, when Twitter Inc announced its impending IPO, thousands of eager stock buyers raced to be the first to invest. Instead of buying Twitter shares, those investors wound up purchasing thousands of shares of a bankrupt electronics company, Tweeter Home Entertainment Inc. "... We've seen other circumstances where ... View the full article

TYN NAD VLTAVOU, Czech Republic (AP) — Just three years ago, the only thing that Zdenek Majzlik knew about cannabis was that it's good stuff for making rope. Today, the 67-year-old retired nuclear power plant employee is an experienced grower who cultivates pot for his daughter who has multiple sclerosis. View the full article

Desperate WA families are resorting to giving their children medical cannabis in a bid to stop dangerous epileptic seizures. View the full article

SHE'S been called narcissistic, irresponsible and even ugly since sharing her extreme fruit-based diet. But Loni Jane says haters just want to be healthy like her. View the full article

A WOMAN has described her terror at discovering a picture of a man she'd never met, sitting at her dining room table - taken while she was in the shower. View the full article

NOW that marijuana is legal in some US states the fun police are trying to make its odour illegal. Introducing one of the most ridiculous contraptions for detecting dope yet. View the full article

WHITEHORSE - The final news conference for the gathering of Canada's justice ministers in Whitehorse was upstaged by a tirade by Justice Minister Peter MacKay. Just as questions wrapped up, MacKay interrupted saying he had heard that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau had discussed his proposal to legalize marijuana in front of elementary school children in Brandon, Man. Jillian Austin, a reporter ... View the full article

Police on Queensland's Gold Coast say they have seized more than five kilograms of synthetic cannabis thought to have been destined for distribution to Schoolies Week revellers. View the full article

Police say they have found a repackaging and distribution centre for synthetic cannabis in a Gold Coast storage unit. View the full article

The U.S. capital could be the next American jurisdiction to loosen its marijuana laws by decriminalizing small amounts of the drug, but Congress could step in to block any changes. View the full article

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Dwayne Bowe deftly avoided the locker room full of prying TV cameras, finally emerging onto the Kansas City Chiefs' practice field Wednesday as if nothing was amiss. The former Pro Bowl wide receiver spent the rest of the afternoon preparing for Sunday night's AFC West showdown against the Broncos, a game in which he'll start despite a weekend arrest for speeding and ... View the full article

Spanish police have detained 12 people, including a British national, suspected of belonging to a gang that used jet skis to smuggle hashish from Morocco into Spain, authorities said Wednesday. The gang brought hashish over from Morocco in boats then when off the southern coast of Spain they transferred their cargo to couriers on jet skis who then delivered the drug to shore, the interior ... View the full article

Czech police say they have opened investigations against 45 people amid nationwide raids on dozens of stores suspected of selling materials that help people illegally grow marijuana. The Czech Republic ... View the full article

THE trial of the man charged with murdering NSW toddler Tanilla Warrick-Deaves has been recorded berating her sobbing mother over a lost bong. View the full article