Cannabis Hemp News

Three people say they were drugged after eating a chocolate bar that wasn't supposed to have marijuana in it at the Denver County Fair's new pot pavilion, and one of them has filed a lawsuit alleging the ... View the full article

LEMOYNE, Pa., Aug. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Although a majority of Pennsylvanians support the legalization of marijuana, it remains a controversial issue, according to a survey released by Keystone Analytics®. Pennsylvania voters were split regarding the recent court ruling allowing same sex couples to marry, with 44 percent opposed and 44 percent unopposed. According to those surveyed ... View the full article

POLICE have seized more than 200 marijuana plants in a drug bust involving nine properties across Adelaide and charged two men with cannabis offences. View the full article

Home-based day care centres are no places for medical pot, Oregon has decided. One centre was already shut down for unrelated potential rules violations, but the owners of four others will have to choose between their child-care businesses or their marijuana cards. The state had long viewed medical marijuana as a private health manner and did not disclose the presence of marijuana to parents ... View the full article

A Legislative Assembly committee will consider proposed laws allowing terminally and chronically ill Canberrans to grow marijuana and use the drug to alleviate their pain and symptoms. View the full article

A New Mexico physician's assistant who also is a medical marijuana patient says one of the state's largest health care providers violated her rights when it fired her following a positive drug test. Donna ... View the full article

Crafty thieves in Washington state made off with $50,000 worth of medical marijuana by cutting a hole in the wall of a dispensary to gain entrance, police said Wednesday. Officers went early Wednesday morning to the facility in Georgetown, a neighborhood in Seattle, after reports of a burglary, the Seattle Police Department said. The dispensary's owner said about $50,000 worth of medical ... View the full article

Washington, D.C., voters will get the chance to weigh in on marijuana legalization at the polls this November. The D.C. Board of Elections unanimously voted Wednesday to include legalization of recreational marijuana on November ballots. If passed, the initiative would allow individuals over 21 years old to possess up to two ounces of marijuana and would permit cultivation of up to six plants at ... View the full article

Washington (AFP) - Residents of the US capital will vote in November on whether to follow the states of Colorado and Washington in legalizing marijuana, following approval of the initiative Wednesday by its Board of Elections. View the full article

Residents of the US capital will vote in November on whether to follow the states of Colorado and Washington in legalizing marijuana, following approval of the initiative Wednesday by its Board of Elections. Campaigners said they had amassed more than 57,000 signatures -- more than double the number required -- on a petition to include legalization as part of the District of Columbia's November ... View the full article

By Daniel Wallis DENVER (Reuters) - A national marijuana industry group launched the first food safety basics course in Colorado on Wednesday for producers and retailers of pot-infused edibles, and another for so-called budtenders who work in the state's legal weed stores. Colorado and Washington this year became the first U.S. states to allow recreational sales of the drug to adults. Last week ... View the full article

By John Tilak TORONTO (Reuters) - Four Canadian medical marijuana producers are working on transactions that will allow them to go public in the next few weeks, according to industry sources and filings, giving investors fresh paths into a growing industry. Mettrum Ltd, OrganiGram Inc, Bedrocan Canada Inc and PharmaCan Capital, a holding company involved with three licensed producers, will join ... View the full article

The companies include business consultants, a customer-relations management business, a company that owns a “bud-and-breakfast” and one that builds “grow rooms” out of old shipping containers. View the full article

Detectives have raided a third property as part of a 40-year-old triple murder investigation in Queensland. View the full article