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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

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 21 and older to buy and possess marijuana and would give the Oregon Liquor Control Commission the job of regulating and taxing the drug. By contrast, New Approach Oregon, the group behind the ... View the full article

NSW Premier Mike Baird has indicated he might support medical cannabis after meeting a terminally ill young man. View the full article

SEATTLE (AP) — The first recreational marijuana sold legally in Seattle is headed to the city's Museum of History and Industry. View the full article

The first recreational marijuana sold legally in Seattle will be put on display at the city's Museum of History and Industry after a woman donated part of her purchase Tuesday. Deb Greene, a 65-year-old ... View the full article

A German court ruled on Tuesday that some people suffering from chronic pain should be able to cultivate their own cannabis "for therapeutic purposes". Five people suffering from chronic pain brought the complaint to a court in Cologne after Germany's Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) refused them permission to grow the plant at home. While the plaintiffs all had permits to ... View the full article

A house on Sundrive Road was raided last night. No arrests have been made. View the full article

Terminally and chronically ill Canberrans would legally be allowed to use marijuana to alleviate their pain and symptoms, under a proposal by the ACT Greens to legalise medical cannabis. View the full article

FIRST ON 7: A prominent Adelaide barrister is calling for medicinal marijuana to be legalised, saying it is cruel to let those who need it suffer. View the full article

A TAMWORTH family has landed a decisive blow in its fight to decriminalise medical marijuana after NSW Premier Mike Baird yesterday gave his strongest sign yet he would support a law change. View the full article

A YOUNG couple’s decision to courier drugs between the Sunshine Coast and Mackay has left their sons parentless for six months. View the full article

TOOWOOMBA man Colin Keith Thurston was found with drugs the very day he had earlier appeared before the city’s Magistrates Court on similar drug charges. View the full article

With marijuana suddenly in the news our feet led us unerringly to Monday's Marijuana On Main Street public lecture at the ANU. View the full article

PADANG BESAR: The General Operation Force made the biggest drug haul this year with the seizure of 128kg of compressed cannabis worth RM205,000 on July 14. In the 7.45pm bust, a patrolling team from the 3rd Battalion found the contraband, believed to be smuggled from Thailand, at the sugar cane field near Malaysia-Thai border in Padang Besar. State police chief Datuk Zul Aznam Haron said the ... View the full article

A Greens push for terminally and chronically ill Canberrans to be allowed to use marijuana as part of treatment and pain management appears unlikely to find support in the ACT Legislative Assembly. View the full article