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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Relying on information in a local newspaper, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the Canadian government was negotiating with Uruguay to import marijuana for medicinal purposes. Sean Upton, a spokesman for Health Canada, the federal department responsible for the country's regulations on medicinal marijuana, says there are currently no plans to encourage the ... View the full article

The cannabis plants have an estimated street value of almost half a million euro. View the full article

Charles Bury is in palliative care and dying of Stage 4 liver cancer, but he’s unlike any patient Sherbrooke University Hospital Centre has ever had: The former Sherbrooke Record editor uses medical marijuana with a vaporizer, which emits little odour and no smoke, to help curb anxiety. View the full article

By Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) - When New York moves ahead with its planned legalization of medical marijuana for the chronically ill, Missy Miller's epileptic son Oliver will be left behind. For months, his family has pinned their hopes on a strain of marijuana developed in Colorado that has helped children with similar conditions. But under an executive order by Governor Andrew Cuomo on ... View the full article

The French drug safety agency has approved commercial sales of a medicine derived from cannabis for the first time in France. France's Health Ministry said in a statement Wednesday that sales of Sativex, ... View the full article

A citizens' group hoping to make Alaska the third state in the nation to legalize recreational use of marijuana took a step closer Wednesday, submitting more than 46,000 signatures to the state election ... View the full article

The son of Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has been fined $200 for cultivating a cannabis plant. View the full article

(Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is due to announce an executive order on Wednesday paving the way for New York to become the 21st U.S. state, along with the District of Columbia, to allow medical marijuana. Marijuana remains illegal under federal law, though the U.S. Department of Justice says it will not interfere with states' efforts to regulate and tax marijuana provided they are ... View the full article

A naturally occurring hormone acts as spontaneous defence in the brain against the high caused by marijuana. View the full article

A group of Ottawa technology executives has made a bid to get prospective medical marijuana producer Tweed Inc. on the Toronto Stock Exchange. View the full article

It seems only yesterday that Bill Clinton was chewing his lower lip and confessing that yes, he had smoked marijuana in his student years, but he hadn’t actually inhaled. Now everyone – President Obama, columnist David Brooks, Michael Bloomberg, Clarence Thomas for heaven’s sake – admits to being a former stoner, and proud of it. If it weren’t for Amazon, and the huge rise in internet shopping ... View the full article

Washington, Jan 8 (ANI): A new survey suggests that Americans do not consider marijuana as dangerous as other legal substances like alcohol and tobacco. The do not consider it as wicked as other illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine, CNN reported. But according to new data released, the percentage is nowhere near as high as the 81 percent who say alcohol should remain legal or the 71 percent who ... View the full article

A GREAT grandmother charged with supplying marijuana only had the drug in her home as "pain control" for her terminally ill daughter, a court heard today. View the full article

Chemicals found in cannabis have the potential to relieve pain and reduce joint inflammation in people suffering from osteoarthritis. Researchers from the Arthritis Research UK Pain Centre at the University of Nottingham have found that natural chemicals found in cannabis – or cannabinoids – can relieve pain in animals suffering from arthritis. Around eight million people in the UK are affected ... View the full article

Washington state could be facing a curious economics problem: too many pot growers. According to updated figures released Tuesday, more than 2,600 applications have been submitted to produce the marijuana ... View the full article