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Crowds of happy stoners bundled in winter coats are celebrating the anniversary of legal marijuana in Washington state by sparking up under Seattle's Space Needle. Marijuana activist Ben Livingston says ... View the full article

SEATTLE - The first anniversary of Washington state's law permitting legal marijuana use was being celebrated Friday by hundreds of people lighting up beneath the Space Needle, Seattle's iconic landmark structure. Almost a thousand people were permitted by the city of Seattle to attend the free event at Seattle Center, an arts and entertainment district surrounding the Space Needle. View the full article

There's been another turn in an already strange and tragic death of a girl killed after being hit by a pick-up truck on Highway 11, west of Rocky Mountain House, last month. View the full article

Los Angeles Man Raising $10 Million for Marijuana Private Equity Fund View the full article

SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Nuvilex, Inc. (OTCQB:NVLX), an international biotechnology company providing cell and gene therapy solutions for the treatment of diseases, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, ... View the full article

Bekaa (Lebanon) (AFP) - Lebanese marijuana grower Abu Sami is practically rubbing his hands together with glee: the Syrian conflict has paralysed authorities at home and left the nearby border virtually uncontrolled. View the full article

RCMP in Hay River have arrested three women on a number of drug-related charges after finding more than 200 grams of marijuana ready for sale and a significant amount of cash. View the full article

Montevideo (AFP) - Uruguay's Senate is due to vote on a controversial bill allowing for the legalisation of marijuana. According to the United Nation's 2013 World Drug Report, cannabis was still the most commonly used illegal drug with 3.9 percent of the global population aged 15-64 using it. VIDEOGRAPHIC View the full article

A Wendy's employee who tucked a partially smoked blunt in a customer's cheeseburger has been fired and charged with marijuana possession. Police in the city of Lovejoy, Ga., about 25 miles south of downtown ... View the full article

A man in his 20s is to appear in court today in relation to the seizure. View the full article

A member of Justin Bieber's entourage busted with cannabis at Brisbane airport missed his day in court. View the full article

A New York judge has threatened Amanda Bynes with arrest if she fails to appear in court to face drug possession charges after missing a hearing on Thursday morning. View the full article

A US drug force has accidentally donated marijuana to a local school. View the full article

By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida's Supreme Court justices raised concerns on Thursday at a hearing on a proposed constitutional ballot amendment to allow medical use of marijuana, questioning whether its language might mislead voters into legalizing nearly wide-open pot smoking. The hour-long legal presentations by former House Speaker Jon Mills of Gainesville, in ... View the full article

A Jamaican scientist and entrepreneur is launching a company that aims to capitalise on medical marijuana. View the full article