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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

The federal government is still assessing whether to allow police to ticket people caught with small amounts of marijuana instead of pursuing charges, says Justice Minister Peter MacKay. Currently, anyone convicted of possessing under 30 grams of pot can face fines of up to $1,000 or as much as six months in jail, while convictions for larger amounts can carry a maximum penalty of five years in ... View the full article

Adam Davies Brisbane Newsdesk Reporter I was born in New South Wales and was educated at Sydney's prestigious Scots College. I have worked both in Australia and United Kingdom for some of the largest newspaper in the two respective countries. View the full article

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TWO-YEAR-OLD Katelyn Lambert can suffer up to 1400 seizures a day. She has Dravet syndrome — a rare and catastrophic form of epilepsy. View the full article

SAN DIEGO -- Medical Marijuana Inc. (OTC Pink:MJNA) is extremely proud to announce that its subsidiary company, HempMeds, is being featured in a groundbreaking documentary on industrial hemp cannabidiol ... View the full article

Las Vegas -- Terra Tech Corp (TRTC) is pleased to announce their subsidiaries MediFarm, MediFarm I and Medifarm II have submitted their applications to operate Medical Marijuana Enterprises (MME) to the ... View the full article