Cannabis Hemp News

Health Canada is changing its policies when it comes to allowing citizens to legally grow medical marijuana. View the full article

A man has been jailed for at least 26 years over a double murder in South Australia. View the full article

Schapelle Corby has edged closer to parole after winning approval from the Justice Ministry office in Bali. View the full article

FBI agents found him in the science fiction section of a small branch of the San Francisco public library, chatting online. The man known as Dread Pirate Roberts — 29-year-old Ross William Ulbricht — was ... View the full article

GLEE star Cory Monteith died of a heroin and alcohol overdose, says a final coroner's report. View the full article

A hidden website operated by a San Francisco man using an alias from "The Princess Bride" became a vast black market bazaar that brokered more than $1 billion in transactions for illegal drugs ... View the full article

The British Columbia Coroners Service says investigators found a spoon with drug residue and a used hypodermic needle in the hotel room where Glee actor Cory Monteith was found dead in July. View the full article

Algeria has seized more than 127 tonnes of cannabis smuggled from Morocco in the first eight months of 2013, the head of the narcotics squad announced on Wednesday. View the full article

A seriously worrying development. Looks like it's too late to do anything about it too. Doesn't bode well for the future of cannabis legalisation. NSW government takes on the plant kingdom http://www.echo.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Lophophora_williamsii-640x480.jpgOne of the more ‘abusable’ plant species, Lophophora williamsii, more commonly known as peyote. In its attempts to nail down the sale of any substance containing ‘psychoactive’ elements, the NSW government amended the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 on Wednesday night last week. The legislation passed through the Upper House without a hitch, and only a few murmurs of dissent, despite the m…

The CEO of the Windsor-Essex Economic Development Corporation approves of Ottawa's decision to standardize medical marijuana operations across the country. View the full article

TAMWORTH’S streets are awash with a powerful prescription drug dubbed “hillbilly heroin” and police have linked its rise to a spate of recent crimes. View the full article

OTTAWA - Facts and figures on the medical marijuana regime in Canada, which is changing rules by March 31, 2014, to encourage large private-sector growers: View the full article

OTTAWA - The Conservative government is launching a $1.3-billion free market in medical marijuana this Tuesday, eventually providing an expected 450,000 Canadians with quality weed. View the full article

CANNABIS and a prescription drug with euphoric effects are South Australian prisoners’ drugs of choice, figures reveal. View the full article