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By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – - Schools that use suspension to punish drug use, or that weakly enforce any of their drug policies, have higher rates of student marijuana use than schools with more consistent and less-punitive approaches, according to a new study. “We hypothesized that harsh penalties like suspension would act as a deterrent and result in lower likelihood of marijuana use ... View the full article

A Colorado grand jury has indicted 32 people on charges that they illegally grew and shipped thousands of pounds of marijuana to other states, most commonly Minnesota. Authorities believe the group made ... View the full article

Georgia looks set to become the 24th US state to legalize marijuana for certain medical uses, part of a growing movement in the country. Georgia Governor Nathan Deal -- who has said he is in favor -- now needs to sign off on the bill after it was approved Wednesday by legislators in the southern state. The law allows for possession of marijuana oil that has a low content of THC, a substance that ... View the full article

A 25-YEAR-OLD man found with almost 1kg of marijuana and less than 1g of cocaine at his Toowoomba home has avoided having his convictions recorded. View the full article

(Reuters) - Three Mexican nationals have been arrested in the United States on accusations of piloting a boat loaded with nearly three tons of marijuana worth $3 million off the California coast, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. The three men were arrested on federal drug trafficking charges early on Sunday after a bystander spotted their panga boat and called police to San Miguel Island, part ... View the full article

By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia lawmakers are poised to legalize a non-smoking form of medical marijuana for patients with seizure disorders and other conditions under a bill that passed the state Senate on Tuesday. A version of the bill was previously approved by the state House of Representatives, which is expected to sign off on minor changes made by the Senate. The Georgia ... View the full article

Maine residents who are campaigning for their state to legalize marijuana say they have filed their proposal for a statewide ballot question. The group calls itself The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like ... View the full article

TWO people have been charged with drug possession following a car break-down on a highway near Townsville. View the full article

A DRUG trafficking charge against former LJ Hooker real estate agent Patrick Ryan McCann has been withdrawn, though he still faces allegations of supply. View the full article

Perth, Australia, Mar 24, 2015 - (ABN Newswire) - PhytoTech Medical Limited (ASX:PYL) and Canadian MMJ Bioscience Inc. Combine to Create a Global, Vertically-Integrated Medical Cannabis Company Highlights ... View the full article

Hundreds of medical marijuana users in British Columbia have been told the pot they thought could help them might harm them because it's contaminated with bacteria. Health Canada says Tilray, a Nanaimo supplier, is telling clients to stop using its Sativa House Blend, Hybrid House Blend and Indica House Blend. The pot was contaminated with enterobacter, which is not associated with an acute ... View the full article

About seven years ago, Kathryn Wick was going about her job as a child crimes detective in Texas when she entered a house that literally took her breath away. "It felt like my throat was just like shut completely off -- I couldn't breathe," says Wick, 30. She left the scene and went to a hospital, where she was treated with two EpiPens and a hefty dose of the severe allergy medication Prednisone ... View the full article

A BOLD plan to make Canberra the medical marijuana capital of Australia proposes to replicate the economic benefits Tasmania has reaped from the controlled poppy industry. View the full article

The marijuana that is available today may be much more potent than marijuana cultivated in the past, according to the results of new tests. The psychoactive component in the marijuana plant is the chemical THC, and the new tests showed that today's marijuana may contain 30 percent THC, Andy LaFrate, the author of the new report, said in a statement. By contrast, THC levels in marijuana 30 years ... View the full article

Parents of children with severe epilepsy are pinning their hopes on a trial of medical cannabis set to begin next year at two Sydney children's hospitals. View the full article