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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- According to Canadian employment lawyer David Whitten, medical marijuana patients have a legal right to ingest their prescribed drugs at work. View the full article

Winnipeg police have busted two million-dollar marijuana grow operations. View the full article

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado man overdosed on the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana after eating chocolate bars obtained from a fairground vendor promoting the drug but whose products should have been cannabis-free, court documents showed. Colorado last year became the first U.S. state to begin the regulated sale to adults of marijuana for recreational use. This year's ... View the full article

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The robbery of a Central California house with a marijuana-growing operation triggered a fierce gunbattle in which two suspects were killed and a 15-year-old girl was used as a human shield by fleeing robbers, authorities said Thursday. View the full article

DRUG raids on Melbourne factories have turned up more than 1000 marijuana plants. View the full article

A man is accused of smuggling hashish seeds into Dubai so that he could grow them into plants. The Pakistani driver is on trial at Dubai Court of First instance charged with possessing and smuggling more than a kilogram of the drug. The 52-year-old was arrested at Dubai International Airport on March 22 after returning from Pakistan. View the full article

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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