Cannabis Hemp News

The main problem with medicinal cannabis is that this is a medical issue being decided by politicians. It’s time to take the politics out of the issue, writes Dr Alex Wodak . View the full article

An unemployed dental technician who grew to ingest a large backyard crop of marijuana to treat his painful and debilitating disease has avoided a conviction from a magistrate who took a "compassionate" approach to his case. View the full article

EXCLUSIVE Magistrate 'compassionately' deals with man who grew drug to treat disease. View the full article

Couple were discovered by police naked in hotel room A visitor will serve five years in prison for providing his girlfriend with hashish. The Dubai Court of First Instance found the 34-year-old Iranian visitor, S.H., guilty of possessing and consuming hashish and providing it to his 28-year-old countrywoman teacher, M.J. He was also fined Dh30,000. "We obtained prosecutors' permission to search ... View the full article

By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - The Seattle Police Department has reassigned an officer who single-handedly issued about 80 percent of the marijuana tickets handed out in the city during the first half of this year, authorities said on Wednesday. Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole said staff reviewing data to prepare the department's first biannual report on marijuana enforcement found ... View the full article

ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher has dismissed dozens of internet threats levelled at her by medical marijuana campaigners, a day after revelations she reported a man to authorities for providing a 2½½-year-old Sydney girl with cannabis oil. View the full article

A drone carrying cellphones, marijuana and other contraband into a U.S. maximum-security prison never made it inside the razor wire fence, and authorities said Wednesday they are looking for one of two people accused of trying to sneak it in. The search has been ongoing since April 21, when officials found a small, crashed drone in bushes outside the walls of Lee Correctional Institution in ... View the full article

By Tim Reid LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The city attorney of bankrupt San Bernardino, California, has a novel idea for raising new revenue - open medical marijuana dispensaries to sell pot. As San Bernardino struggles to deliver a bankruptcy exit plan two years after it filed for Chapter 9 protection, city attorney Gary Saenz says marijuana sales should be part of the southern California city's ... View the full article

A Hamilton man appeared in Sudbury court Tuesday after police found him last summer growing more than 240 marijuana plants, the Sudbury Star reported Wednesday. James Wyse was 62 at the time of his arrest last August. Superior Court Justice Robert Del Frate chastised Wyse for his crimes. View the full article

By Amanda Orr HOUSTON (Reuters) - One person has been arrested and more than 100,000 marijuana plants were being eradicated from a sprawling operation in one of the largest pot farming cases in Texas history, police said on Wednesday. The farm, which covered 29 fields, was discovered by a deer hunter in Goodrich, about 65 miles northeast of Houston, during the weekend. The marijuana plants have ... View the full article

With the landscape rapidly changing for regulation of pot in various states, employers must be sure their guidelines keep pace. View the full article

An ACT man who was providing liquid medical cannabis to the family of a seriously ill toddler has had his house raided by police, after writing to the Chief Minister to tell her the treatment was working. View the full article

AN alleged underground Gold Coast marijuana trafficking ring boss has been granted bail after persuading a judge he will show up to court. View the full article

Firefighters in Canberra have stumbled upon a stash of cannabis after the equipment being used to grow the plants caused a house fire. View the full article