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‘’We say no to marijuana legalization, whether for medical or recreational use.'' Senate Minority Leader Vicente Sotto emphasized this point when he delivered this week a privilege speech against House Bill No. 4477 (Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Act) filed in the House of Representatives. The proposed bill states that ‘’marijuana use has medical properties for certain persons suffering ... View the full article

Call it debating, call it deferring, or call it simply taking their time to get a decision right, but the federal government may apparently be on the verge of approving looser marijuana laws in Canada. The idea of giving police … Continue reading → View the full article

(Reuters) - A Virginia man with the last name Stoner has been arrested for having $10,000 worth of marijuana plants, police said Thursday. Acting on a tip that Paul Scott Stoner, 42, was selling marijuana to children, police raided his Unionville home last Thursday and discovered the plants, prescription drugs, hypodermic needles, drug paraphernalia and guns, according statement released by the ... View the full article

LAS VEGAS -- GrowBLOX Sciences, Inc. (OTCQB:GBLX), a medical marijuana research and development company, announced that CEO Craig Ellins will be presenting on the Medical Marijuana Stocks Public Company ... View the full article

MONTREAL -- Washington State Marijuana users spent $3.8 million ($127,000 per day) in the first month of legal sales. That will bring in approximately $1 million in state taxes, from 18 stores. View the full article

VANCOUVER, BC -- via PRWEB - A new BC-based player in the medicinal marijuana market is set to submit an additional application to Health Canada this month which, if successful, would see the entrant become ... View the full article

A Canadian drug kingpin who was one of New York's biggest marijuana suppliers and was dubbed the Pot Playboy was sentenced to 27 years in prison for leading a $1 billion international drug trafficking enterprise, prosecutors said. Jimmy Cournoyer pleaded guilty in May 2013 to charges including money laundering and conspiracies to manufacture and distribute marijuana and cocaine. Cournoyer's ... View the full article

NEW YORK (AP) — A Canadian drug kingpin who was one of New York's biggest marijuana suppliers and was dubbed the Pot Playboy was sentenced Wednesday to 27 years in prison for leading a $1 billion international drug trafficking enterprise, prosecutors said. View the full article

By John Tilak TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian medical marijuana producer Bedrocan Cannabis Corp is set to go public on Monday, offering investors an alternative to Tweed Marijuana Inc in the nascent market, according to two sources familiar with the company's plans. The company has received an approval to list, under the ticker symbol “BED”, on the Toronto Venture Exchange and will do so in a ... View the full article

A LEADING Tasmanian upper house parliamentarian believes the Tasmanian Government should approve trials to grow medicinal cannabis. View the full article

LAS VEGAS -- Hemp, Inc. (OTC:HEMP) today announced second-quarter 2014 sales revenue of $2,365,763 resulting in a net income for the quarter of $1,820,418. Although second quarter sales were down 57% from ... View the full article

Beijing (AFP) - Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan said Wednesday he felt "ashamed" of his son's detention on drug-related charges, adding he had "failed to educate" his child. View the full article

SAN DIEGO -- From the US to Turkey, the world is "buzzing" with the news that the National Institutes of Health, a U.S. Government Agency division of the Department of Health and Human Services, ... View the full article

Using waste hemp fibers as the starting material, researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada have developed a high-performance electrode material for supercapacitors at one thousandth the cost of the more commonly used graphene. The advance could lead to supercapacitors that are both cheaper and able to operate under harsh environmental conditions... Continue Reading Hemp-derived carbon ... View the full article

Objections by police were partly behind the Tasmanian Government's rejection of a medical cannabis growing trial, Parliament has been told. View the full article