Cannabis Hemp News

I RECENTLY visited an industrial hemp production factory on the NSW North Coast. Now don’t jump to any conclusions! There was nothing illegal about it. View the full article

Moroccan security forces seized nearly 24 tonnes of hashish from a number of boats and arrested 11 people after an overnight chase off the northern coast, the MAP news agency reported Saturday. Spain's proximity to north Africa, a major source of hashish, and its close ties with its former colonies in Latin America, a key cocaine-producing region, have made it the main gateway into Europe for ... View the full article

Andrea Saretti's son Sam starts the day each morning by putting on a special helmet and medical bracelet to protect him in case he falls to the ground with a seizure. Sam, 9, was diagnosed with epilepsy last year and has suffered seizures that have not stopped despite multiple medications and even an electronic implant that is designed to prevent seizures by sending mild electrical pulses to the ... View the full article

Ernie Eves has gone from politics to pot. While other politicians tend to join law firms, become consultants or work on various other staid pursuits, the former Progressive Conservative premier of Ontario has chosen to branch out. He has joined Timeless Herbal Care — a Jamaican medical marijuana company with ties in Canada and Israel — as its chairman. "No, my standard response to that was only ... View the full article

The grow-ops were side-by-side on Murray St., and featured "sophisticated ventilation and watering equipment, transformers, lights" and more, Brantford police said in a news release. In the first semi-detached house, police found 371 marijuana plants and more than 7,000 grams of weed that was ready to sell. View the full article

Madrid (AFP) - Spanish police said Friday they had seized 11 tonnes of hashish and detained 55 people across the country as part of an operation targeting a Moroccan drug trafficking ring. View the full article

In a separate operation, Revenue officers seized 7,400 cigarettes. View the full article

A police check on reports of a possible impaired driver turned into a drug seizure by the Cochrane RCMP on Thursday. View the full article

What kind of Looney Tune do we live in .... fair dinkum , apparentley up in nth Qld. pple on life support and a coupla dudes dead with some synthetic 'marijuana' .. fuck i hate that word! 'marijuana' is a derogatory term/label for Cannabis. the first anti-cannabis laws were directly targeted at the term 'marijuana', something the Mexicans brought with them as they fled the Mexican Revolution of the early 1900s and flooded into America ... so, back to the Cartoon we live in , It is now the case that legal*, (well its legal in some place) synthetic weed has killed people left, right and center .. indiscriminate unnecessary deaths of aussies who just wanted to relax and pa…

New Brunswick's first medical marijuana vapour room has opened in Oromocto, just down the road from 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown. Marijuana For Trauma Inc. has expanded its Restigouche Road facility to include the new room, saying it is a necessary support for Canadian Forces veterans and others suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The vapour room will allow those ... View the full article

President Obama has already signaled he will... View the full article

Police deployed wiretaps to gather evidence before raiding 14 locations in the Halifax area two years ago as they investigated allegations that medical marijuana licences were being used to illegally grow and traffic drugs. Police say the bust in December 2012 netted about 20 kilograms of marijuana, 2,207 marijuana plants and more than $100,000 in cash. One of the first public glimpses into how ... View the full article

IT HAS been a year since Colorado became the first state in the US to legalise marijuana, and its impact on health, crime, employment and other factors can now be more empirically measured. View the full article