Cannabis Hemp News

Police have seized 50,000 cannabis seeds, weapons and a haul of stolen property in raids aimed at dismantling drug operations in north Queensland. View the full article

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Hemp seeds will be sprung from confinement and put in Kentucky soil in coming days after federal drug officials approved a permit Thursday ending a standoff that had imperiled the state's experimental plantings this spring, agriculture officials said. View the full article

FBI Director James Comey says law enforcement faces an "enormous challenge" in stopping the type of cyber threat represented by the Justice Department's recent computer spying case against five ... View the full article

San Gabriel, La Union — Police in this town intercepted the other day 200 kilos of marijuana, priced at P4 million, while being transported in a Toyota Innova with a minor on board. Senior Inspector Baldwin F. Sokoken, Jr., San Gabriel Police Station chief, said his men arrested Elvin L. Consulta, 42, driver of the maroon Innova (UVO-519), and his 15-year-old companion, who turned out to be a ... View the full article

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed legislation on Wednesday to tighten controls on edible and concentrated forms of marijuana, as concerns mounted about safety issues after two deaths possibly linked to the ingestion of pot-infused goodies. Voters in Colorado approved a landmark ballot measure legalizing recreational marijuana for adults in 2012, and ... View the full article

Australian warship HMAS Darwin has seized 786 kilograms of drugs from a smuggling vessel in the Middle East. View the full article

Some parents of children with severe epilepsy say that cannabis helps prevent their children's seizures, but experts caution that it remains unproven whether using the drug to treat epilepsy is safe or effective. One mother in Colorado turned to cannabis to treat her daughter's intractable seizures, which had started when her daughter was 3 months old, and occurred as often as 50 times a day ... View the full article

A MAGISTRATE has raised the difficulties in sentencing motorists caught driving under the influence of marijuana without significant research to show how the drug affects driving. View the full article

Scientists are looking at the potential use of cannabis to treat and potentially cure severe forms of epilepsy. The medical benefits of medical marijuana for neurological conditions like epilepsy are highly debated. Edward Maa, from the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at Denver Health in Denver, Colorado, looks at a case study of a child with Dravet syndrome – a very severe form of epilepsy. In ... View the full article

Rather than leaving a bird or mouse on the doorstep, the cat left a small plastic bag filled with drugs as a gift on Sunday night, prompting its owner to call police in the South Island city of Dunedin. ''You hear of cats bringing dead birds and rats home but certainly in my career I've never seen anything like this before," Sergeant Reece Munro told the Otago Daily Times. Munro said the owner ... View the full article

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky Agriculture Department attorneys and the federal government have met with a judge to try to resolve a standoff over hemp seeds from Italy that customs officials have detained.... View the full article

Kentucky Agriculture Department attorneys and the federal government have met with a judge to try to resolve a standoff over hemp seeds from Italy that customs officials have detained. Afterward Wednesday, ... View the full article

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Health professionals already recognize the remarkable ability of medical cannabis to relieve chronic pain and some of the worst symptoms of illnesses such as cancer, AIDS, ... View the full article

LAS VEGAS -- Hemp, Inc. (OTC:HEMP) today announced first-quarter 2014 sales revenue of $5,490,874 resulting in a net income for the quarter of $2,606,782, surpassing previous high marks for revenue, in ... View the full article

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- On May 16, 2014 Kash Heed, a former B.C. Solicitor General and West Vancouver Police Chief, appeared on CBC radio predicting that Canada will legalize marijuana within the ... View the full article