Cannabis Hemp News

The driver of a train that crashed at Melling Station in Lower Hutt in May has tested positive for cannabis. View the full article

THE pot-smoking hippies of the ’60s implored us to “make love, not war”, and now locals are being asked to dress as hippies as part of a political war to legalise marijuana as a medicine. View the full article

LAS VEGAS -- For those who missed it the first time, Hemp, Inc. (OTC: HEMP) announced its first exclusive hemp-based cosmeceutical product line for skin and body care. The launch of Hemp, Inc.'s cosmeceutical ... View the full article

Oregon voters will decide whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use after state elections officials on Tuesday said the measure qualified for the November ballot. The measure would allow adults ... View the full article

Premier “sympathetic”, but will leave decision to research council. View the full article

The Tasmanian Government would be prepared to support the findings of an Upper House inquiry into medicinal cannabis, Treasurer Peter Gutwein has indicated. View the full article

The NSW Premier has met with a terminally-ill cancer patient who wants medicinal cannabis legalised. View the full article

NSW may be a step closer to legalising medicinal cannabis after Premier Mike Baird met a terminally ill cancer patient who is using the drug illegally. View the full article

Prime Minister Tony Abbott expects Australia's relationship with Indonesia to be 'strong and warm'. View the full article

TASMANIA'S industrial hemp industry - even within a climate of red tape and protracted government inaction - is set to double next year to 200ha. View the full article

SNOOP Dogg smoked cannabis at the White House. The 42-year-old rapper - whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. - admits he once puffed on marijuana in the bathroom at the official residence of president Barack Obama in Washington D.C. View the full article

The Qld premier says he has an open mind about medical marijuana, but the advice of national health experts must underpin any change. View the full article

Two new sniffer dogs have been added to the security team at Canberra's jail. View the full article

Industrial and food opportunities for hemp are not the only casualties of this blind prejudice. ONE of the most compelling reasons for fewer laws is that there are also fewer unintended consequences. Almost every law causes problems that were never anticipated. View the full article

By Jennifer Baires SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California authorities have launched a major raid to seize marijuana grown on and around a Northern California Indian reservation, joining with tribal authorities to combat illegal grow operations on native lands, authorities said on Tuesday. “They’re going to be there for a while,” Lieutenant Steve Knight, spokesman of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s ... View the full article