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Tasmanian Health Minister Michael Ferguson says his government supports trials and potential use of medicinal cannabis in the state. View the full article

Tasmania's Health Minister would support a medicinal cannabis trial in the state, he has told a parliamentary committee. View the full article

Washington, Sept 7 (ANI): A new study has revealed that taking marijuana soon after a traumatic event can prevent PTSD-like (post-traumatic stress disorder) symptoms in rats, caused by the trauma and by trauma reminders. The importance of this study is that it contributes to the understanding of the brain basis of the positive effect cannabis has on PTSD and thus supports the necessity to ... View the full article

Action News was in Cobbs Creek as narcotics officers removed marijuana plants from the scene of a deadly shooting. View the full article

Sept. 5, 2014, 7:09 p.m. BRADDON Liberal MHR Brett Whiteley has been moved by human stories of the benefits of medicinal cannabis and is "quite open" to a trial in Tasmania. View the full article

Cannabis growing paraphernalia was also discovered during yesterday’s raid in Ballygar. View the full article

THE use of medicinal cannabis instead of other ''toxic drugs with unfortunate side affects'' will be discussed at the parliamentary committee inquiry, according to Independent MP Ruth Forrest. View the full article

Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer called the week-long Oregon Marijuana Education Tour a "smokescreen" for opponents seeking to defeat a November state ballot measure that if passed would legalize recreational pot use by adults in the state. Washington state and Colorado this year became the first two U.S. View the full article

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's upcoming vote on whether to legalize marijuana has generated a name-calling dispute between a congressman who wants to overhaul federal marijuana policy and a prominent district attorney who has been speaking out about the dangers of pot. View the full article

The men are aged from 27 to 52. View the full article

Farmers in these parts have returned to planting marijuana, police reported yesterday after a week that saw the discovery and destruction of P3.6 million worth of plantations in this town. Joint operatives from the police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Santol Municipal Police Station (MPS) have destroyed an estimated P1.5 million worth of marijuana plants in Sitio Bay ... View the full article

Halifax Regional Police raided the city's first marijuana lounge Friday afternoon. The Gottingen Street lounge, called Farm Assists, welcomed licensed medical marijuana to vaporize their weed using smokeless devices that don't burn the marijuana but instead toast it to release the active THC. Store owner Chris Enns said in a July interview he also planned to sell medical marijuana, which is ... View the full article

A medical marijuana plant planned for Atholville has stalled, along with the estimated 400 jobs it was expected to create for the hard-hit northern New Brunswick village over several years. ​Zenabis is still waiting for approval from Health Canada and Mayor Michel Soucy wants to know why. "It's important for the Village of Atholville and the whole area because of job creation. View the full article

Delaware State Police say a mother and son are facing drug charges after a month long investigation in the illegal sale of marijuana from a home in Felton. View the full article

In a move branded "weed welfare" by some critics, free cannabis is to be handed out to low income residents in the elite university town of Berkeley, California. Medical marijuana is legal in the state of California and now Berkeley residents who rely on the 'sacred herb' for medicinal reasons will be able to skin up for free -- if they earn less than $32,000 a year. Condemning the rule change ... View the full article