Cannabis Hemp News

One Direction's lawyers are dealing with a video showing two band members 'smoking marijuana'. View the full article

An estimated 51 kg of the drug was discovered in Newtownmountkennedy. View the full article

OTTAWA - The federal Health Department wants medical marijuana suppliers to provide provincial authorities with information on the doctors who prescribe the substance. And they want them to issue semi-annual reports on the physicians who prescribe marijuana for their patients. The provinces and territories "have identified the need to provide better education and guidance for and monitoring of ... View the full article

A man and woman face a string of drug and weapons charges after police searched a home in St. Margaret Village, in Cape Breton, on Thursday. View the full article

Marijuana possession is currently illegal in Jamaica but that could soon change. The government of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has proposed to amend the Caribbean island nation's narcotics law to decriminalize possession of up to two ounces of marijuana -- known here as ganja. The move, announced Thursday by Justice Minister Mark Golding, would mean possession of small amounts of the ... View the full article

A TAMWORTH family’s controversial push to legalise marijuana for the dying will feature on one of the nation’s top-rating current affairs programs tomorrow. View the full article

Jamaica's government announced a major rethinking of its marijuana laws, including plans to partially decriminalize small amounts of pot and to allow possession for religious, scientific and medical purposes. ... View the full article

By John Tilak TORONTO (Reuters) - By unlocking the once-obscure medical marijuana market, Canada has created a fast-growing, profitable and federally regulated industry with a distinct appeal to the more daring global investor. About a dozen producers of the drug will find themselves in the spotlight this year as they consider going public or prepare to so through share sales or reverse ... View the full article

By Horace Helps KINGSTON (Reuters) - The Jamaican government has decided to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, joining the trickle of countries moving to soften laws on the drug known on the Caribbean island as "ganja." Minister of Justice Mark Golding made the announcement at an afternoon news conference on Thursday saying that Jamaica's Dangerous Drugs Act would be ... View the full article

Colorado's marijuana market boomed in April as tens of thousands celebrated the once-underground 4/20 pot holiday. Tax collections recently released showed that Colorado sold about $22 million worth of recreational pot in April. An estimate from the Colorado Department of Revenue showed that Colorado made about $5.3 million from medical and recreational pot taxes and fees in April. Colorado made ... View the full article

SAN DIEGO -- Medical Marijuana, Inc. (OTC Pink:MJNA) is excited to announce that its subsidiary HempMeds and the cannabidiol (CBD)-rich hemp oil that the company represents, markets and distributes ... View the full article

Smoking cannabis helped with pain, spasms and to lift her mood, Tom Curran revealed today. View the full article

LAS VEGAS -- Since purchasing its line of automated decortication equipment and accompanying kenaf, Hemp, Inc. (OTC:HEMP) announced today the first sale of its raw and processed kenaf in the United States. ... View the full article

OREM, Utah -- via PRWEB - ForeverGreen Worldwide Corporation (FVRG), a leading provider of nutritional foods and other healthy products, announced today that the company recently marketed its' products ... View the full article

A New York man whose heat lamp sparked a fire in his basement apartment has been charged after emergency responders discovered a 'marijuana farm,' police said. Officials answering a 911 call about a fire at a building in the Prospect Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn found 40 to 50 marijuana plants, halogen lights and water pumps. "They discovered a marijuana farm," said Sophia Mason, a ... View the full article