Cannabis Hemp News

Canada's self-proclaimed 'Prince of Pot' is back with a vengeance. Serving a nearly five-year sentence in a US prison has done little to shake Marc Emery's resolve to get marijuana legalized in his home country. He, along with his pot-activist wife Jodie, vows to take on anti-cannabis conservatives in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government and to weed out the anti-pot constituencies in ... View the full article

MPs join forces to push for Australian farmers to grow industrial hemp for human consumption. View the full article

Mendocino County is known for growing marijuana, most of it illegal, and a lot of it is on fire. View the full article

By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin said on Wednesday she would support a limited medical trial in her state for a derivative of marijuana that has been used in other states to treat toddlers with rare conditions that can cause seizures and strokes. Her office said CBD is not intoxicating and research suggests it may be effective to treat toddlers with rare ... View the full article

You can now cast a ballot for your favourite type of marijuana — medical, that is. Voting is now open for the first annual Canadian Cannabis Awards. The contest, the first of its kind in Canada, wants members of the marijuana community to vote on their favourite smoke shop, marijuana strains and weed-related social media accounts. View the full article

Raids on homes in Western Adelaide have resulted in six arrests with more than 150 cannabis plants seized. View the full article

Independent Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie says there is confusion about the difference between the industrial hemp and medicinal cannabis industries. View the full article

NT Police have raided an Alice Springs property where they allegedly found a large drug haul including chocolate cannabis cupcakes. View the full article

When Marc Emery – the self-described "Prince of Pot" – returns to Canada on Tuesday, he will arrive in a country with a far different relationship with marijuana than the one he left five years ago. Emery recently finished serving … Continue reading → View the full article

With Marc Emery's arrival back in Canada, having served his five-year prison sentence in the U.S. for selling marijuana seeds to Americans, the pot activist ​returns to a country where there appears to be "just a lack of enthusiasm on the part of police" to enforce possession laws. It's kind of the new vagrancy charge, really," said Neil Boyd, professor and director of Simon Fraser University's ... View the full article

Redland Bay mother calls for the legalisation of medical cannabis View the full article

Support is growing among Tasmanian councils to allow the growing of medicinal cannabis. View the full article

A campaign to discourage Colorado youths from using marijuana titled "Don't Be a Lab Rat" will use human-sized rat cages and television and movie-theater ads, with the goal of telling teens there's ... View the full article

A cannabis factory was found in the grounds of a mental hospital, police have confirmed. View the full article

The Tasmanian company that applied to trial medicinal cannabis in the state has been given the go-ahead elsewhere. View the full article