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By Benet Koleka LAZARAT Albania (Reuters) - The smoke from burning marijuana plants billowed from a dozen houses on Day Five of Albania's most serious move yet against a southern village, armed to the teeth, that has churned out weed on an industrial scale for more than 15 years. Lazarat has long blighted Albania’s efforts to shed the image of a Balkan badlands since it threw off communism in ... View the full article

Police fighting gangsters in a village dubbed Europe's 'cannabis capital' have seized and destroyed more than 10 tons of the drug. Around 800 police wearing bulletproof vests and backed by armoured vehicles, were deployed around the Albanian village of Lazarat as clashes continued for a third day. The traffickers have barricaded themselves in several houses in the centre and were using ... View the full article

Supporters of New York's proposed medical marijuana law have their work cut out for them. They have until the end of the legislative session — tomorrow — to convince Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign the Compassionate Care Act into law without gutting it. View the full article

Uruguay, which recently passed a law making it the first country to legalize the production and sale of cannabis, will also allow doctors to prescribe the drug to treat certain medical conditions, the country's health minister said on Wednesday. "It will mainly be used to alleviate pain, as in the case of cancer, as well as convulsions or epilepsy," Susana Muniz told Reuters, adding that it ... View the full article

Alzheimer's might partly develop because of the suppression of "natural cannabis" molecules in the brain, scientists believe. View the full article

Plumes of pungent pot smoke rose above the small but prosperous Albanian village of Lazarat on Wednesday as police sought to drive out the gangs that have turned it into Europe's largest illegal marijuana ... View the full article

LAS VEGAS -- Medical Marijuana, Inc. (OTC Pink:MJNA) is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, Wellness Managed Services' MPS International (MPSI), is a sponsor of the inaugural International Cannabis ... View the full article

By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - Advocates of legal marijuana in Oregon have gathered more than the required number of signatures to get a measure on the November ballot that would permit recreational use of the drug by adults, organizers said on Tuesday. New Approach Oregon said the group had collected over 100,000 signatures - more than the 87,213 needed by July 3 - for the proposed ... View the full article

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - An experimental cannabis drug has produced promising results in a small study of children with hard-to-treat epilepsy, sending shares in its British maker GW Pharmaceuticals to an all-time high. It already sells Sativex for spasticity caused by multiple sclerosis across Europe. The latest findings for its new product Epidiolex follow an assessment of 27 ... View the full article

Until ten years ago, Lazarat was a regular farming community. Now the village in southern Albania is Europe's biggest illegal marijuana producer, raking in billions of euros every year from the plants ... View the full article

HENDERSON, Nev. -- Strategic Rare Earth Metals, Inc. (OTC Markets:SREH) announced today that the Company welcomes William Britt as a consultant and Advisor of operations for the Company. View the full article

Buying pot in Hamilton just got a lot harder, thanks to local police — officers have seized over 400 pounds of marijuana valued at over $1 million. View the full article

LAZARAT, Albania - Near-continuous gunfire rang out Tuesday from a lawless village in southern Albania as hundreds more police arrived to battle well-armed marijuana growers who were trying to thwart a government crackdown. By mid-day, about 800 police had surrounded the village of Lazarat after shooting overnight wounded a special forces police officer. With local television broadcasting the ... View the full article

Chris Calcino Reporter Chris studied journalism at the University of Queensland. Worked for the Western Star in Roma. He has worked at The Chronicle as a reporter since February 2011. View the full article

Workers tend to medical marijuana plants at a new commercial operation in Smiths Falls, Ontario on February 4, 2014 View the full article