Cannabis Hemp News

A 39-year-old woman is facing several drug related charges after police found 155 marijuana plants in a St. Vital home. View the full article

Police are investigating the stabbing of a man in Montreal's St-Michel neighbourhood that lead them to a hydroponic marijuana grow operation early this morning. View the full article

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The world's first state-licensed marijuana retailers, catering to Colorado's newly legal recreational market for pot, are stocking their shelves ahead of a New Year's grand opening that supporters and detractors alike see as a turning point in America's drug culture. Possession, cultivation and private personal consumption of marijuana by adults for the sake ... View the full article

The first batch of Denver businesses approved to sell recreational marijuana got their licenses Friday, the owners mugging for pictures and saying they never thought they'd see the day when they'd get ... View the full article

More than 3,700 marijuana business applications have now been filed in Washington state, including 867 proposed retail outlets spanning from Point Roberts to Pullman. Washington's Liquor Control Board ... View the full article

Police say they found dozens of cannabis plants and a hydroponic set up at a western Sydney home which caught alight last week. View the full article

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A spokesman for Uruguay's president says Jose Mujica has quietly signed into law the government's plan to create a regulated, legal market for marijuana. View the full article

By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - "What brand are you smoking?," could become a more routine question among Coloradans in January, when anyone 21 or older will be able to buy up to an ounce of marijuana from a state-licensed retail store for recreational use. In Illinois, a new law will prohibit anyone from using a drone - an unmanned aircraft - to interfere with hunters or fishermen. Those ... View the full article

Panaji, Dec 23 (IANS) Two people were arrested here with marijuana, worth Rs.60,000, in another anti-narcotics raid ahead of the peak holiday season, police said Monday. A police spokesperson identified as Benson Nazareth and Dinesh Salgaonkar, both residents of Saligao, a village located 15 kms from here. "Both were arrested for possession of nearly Rs.60,000 worth of marijuana during the raid ... View the full article

Police have charged 19 people with a total of 250 drug offences following a series of raids on Brisbane's bayside. View the full article

The Border Guard Command in Jazan apprehended three drug traffickers in possession of 270 slabs of cannabis after they crossed into Saudi territorial waters aboard a boat from Yemen. Brig. Gen. Abdullah Bin Mahfouz, spokesman for Jazan Border Guard, said that the border patrols in Beesh sector spotted a boat coming from Yemen into Saudi territory. In the end we overcame them and seized their ... View the full article

A company licensed to grow marijuana in Britain has filed plans to raise £36.7m on Wall Street. GW Pharmaceuticals grows plants at a secret location in southern England, and recently gained priority "orphan drug" designation from the US Food and Drug Administration for Epidiolex, a liquid formula that is produced from cannabis. "The proposed fundraising is intended to carry out the clinical ... View the full article

CLEARVIEW TOWNSHIP, Ont. - Mark Gobuty isn't raising cattle or cultivating corn on his farm north of Toronto — he's growing medical marijuana. His company, The Peace Naturals Project, is one of the first to be approved by Health Canada to commercially produce and distribute dried cannabis ahead of changes next spring to Ottawa's marijuana medical access program. Starting April 1, the program ... View the full article

Small country's move to legalise weed has more than token significance for future of the "war on drugs". View the full article

Legal marijuana sales in Colorado are set to start on January 1. But when stores will actually open is anyone's guess. View the full article