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With 23 states now allowing some form of medical marijuana program, the industry is in need of workers. But because marijuana has been illegal for decades (and still is illegal federally) there can be a lack of qualified workers to support the field. The industry is trying to change that. View the full article

The national debate over legalized marijuana will come into new focus in early November, as two states and the District of Columbia will let voters decide on legalization measures similar to those approved in Colorado and Washington state. View the full article

A TAMWORTH medical marijuana crusader has launched a scathing broadside at the Australian Medical Association (AMA) amid fears cannabis medicine legalisation could be “many years away”. View the full article

A judge has agreed to suspend a prison sentence handed to a Koonawarra man who threatened his former high school friend with a beer bottle while demanding his cash. View the full article

More than a half-dozen unnamed black witnesses have provided grand jury testimony that supports officer Darren Wilson's account of events on August 9. View the full article

ALTHOUGH more than 280g of marijuana were found in a police search of his home, Peter Adrian Mikitis assured officers it was for his own personal use. View the full article

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Court of Appeal has overturned a lower court's ruling that ordered the provincial government to cover the costs of medical marijuana for a woman who bought the drug from an unlicensed outlet. View the full article

By Esteban Farat MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguay's leading opposition candidate said on Wednesday he would try to repeal much of the country's ground-breaking marijuana law, which permits the commercial production and sale of the drug, if he wins Sunday's presidential election. The South American country became the world's first to allow the cultivation, distribution and use of marijuana, but ... View the full article

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By Daniel Lovering BOSTON (Reuters) - Attorneys clashed in court on Tuesday over whether a friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber was too high on marijuana to have deliberately lied to investigators about his role in the aftermath of the worst attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. A federal prosecutor said Robel Phillipos, 21, lied repeatedly to FBI agents after the April 15, 2013 ... View the full article

LONDON - Powerful lights confiscated by police during marijuana raids are now being used by the groundsman of English third tier soccer club Rochdale to help the turf grow on its field. View the full article

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- via PRWEB - GreenWave Advisors, LLC, a newly established independent research and advisory firm serving the burgeoning marijuana industry released its inaugural research report, "The ... View the full article

A drugs haul worth €63,000 was uncovered in the raid. View the full article

EAGLE POINT, Ore. -- Grow Condos, Inc. located in Eagle Point, Oregon, a leading provider of "Condominium" style warehouse space for the emerging cannabis industry announces that Dan Rogers Chief ... View the full article

The suspects confessed that the plan was masterminded by the third suspect who is a bachelor and that he is the one who smuggled drugs for distribution. View the full article