Cannabis Hemp News

Actor Guy Pearce says it took a film offer from rock singer Nick Cave to persuade him to kick a drug habit that had taken over his life. View the full article

Buying pot is normally a subtle affair, but not for Mike Boyer, who camped out to become the first person to legally purchase marijuana in Washington state. Inside Spokane Green Leaf, Washington’s first legal recreational marijuana store, Boyer proudly held two bags of weed and what appears to be a pipe over his head in celebration, while a local television filmed the entire sequence. “This day ... View the full article

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes on Friday apologized for violating workplace rules by bringing bags of marijuana he purchased from newly-opened Washington state pot shops back to... View the full article

Former Australian Federal Police chief Mick Palmer has urged state law enforcement agencies to exercise discretion when dealing with families who are treating seriously ill children with cannabis oil. View the full article

ESTABLISHING a broader- based industrial hemp industry should be Tasmania's first aim before considering the logistics of a medicinal cannabis trial, Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association ceo Jan Davis said in a statement yesterday. View the full article

Fourteen people have been arrested in a massive police operation targetting drug dealers in Albany and Denmark. View the full article

By Bryan Cohen SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle's first and only recreational marijuana store had to close on Friday after running out of stock in just three days since Washington became the second U.S. state to allow pot sales to adults. Cannabis City opened in Seattle on Tuesday with at least 10 pounds (4.5 kgs) of marijuana for sale, and by close of business Thursday it was all gone. There were ... View the full article

Colorado sold less recreational pot in May than in April, the first month-to-month sales decline for the drug that became legal at the beginning of the year. Tax collections reported by the state Department ... View the full article

Whether driven by idealism, necessity or greed, an increasing number of elderly Australians are supplementing their pensions with a spot of drug distribution. Mandy Sayer meets some of them. View the full article

London, July 11 (IANS) British rapper-actor Ashley Walters was fined 1,475 pounds for possessing marijuana. The 32-year-old was charged with possessing the drug in June after he tried to board a commercial flight with the substance at Anglesey airport in Wales. In a hearing conducted Thursday, prosecutor Diane Williams told Holyhead Magistrates' court that a quantity of herbal cannabis was found ... View the full article

A DISTRAUGHT Tamworth woman fears her three-year-old nephew has been condemned to die following a raid on his home and the seizure of his cannabis medicine yesterday. View the full article

GUY Pearce says for almost a year he stayed at home, played his 95 guitars, switched off his phone, warned off his agent and relapsed as a stoner. View the full article

Polls show the vast majority of the public... View the full article

British Columbia could become a testing ground for legal recreational marijuana sales in Canada, if ​UBC adjunct professor Mark Haden has his way. Legal sales of recreational marijuana started in Washington state this week, but B.C. says it won't consider it. Haden says B.C. could ask for an exemption like the one made for Insite, Vancouver's supervised injection site. View the full article

The city council says local medical pot dispensaries must give away a portion of their produce to low income patients. View the full article