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Bogota, Jan 1 (IANS/EFE) Drug enforcement agents seized 3.6 tonnes of marijuana hidden in a shipment of flour, spaghetti and cooking oil in southwestern Colombia, officials said Wednesday. View the full article

Former US senator Mike Gravel, seen here in August 2007, has been appointed as the head of cannabis company Kush, which produces marijuana products for recreational and medicinal use, its parent company ... View the full article

Jarulbachai (Tripura), Dec. 30 (ANI): A joint operation carried out by security forces and the administration on Tuesday saw hundreds of acres of illegal marijuana crops destroyed in the Jarulbachai district of West Tripura. View the full article

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in Maryland has been sentenced for delivering packages of marijuana to a conspirator on her route. View the full article

People are usually bombarded with advertisements at this time of year, but one ad campaign in Metro Vancouver is turning heads. View the full article

WIN for medical Cannabis! WIN for Cooper too (the young boy) http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/disabled-boy-can-have-marijuana-after-police-drop-investigation/story-fni0fit3-1227159516260 POLICE have dropped a child abuse investigation into two Melbourne parents who feed marijuana to their disabled son. The Office of Public Prosecution has ruled it would not be in the public’s interest to take the parents to court. It’s a backflip the Mernda couple, Cassie Batten and Rhett Wallace, hope could be another step towards legalising medical cannabis in Victoria. It has also given them some hope that they will be allowed to keep their son Cooper, now 4, without futur…

DENVER - Colorado emerged as the state with the second-highest percentage of regular marijuana users as it began legalizing the drug, according to a new national study. View the full article

The ACT government is yet to finalise plans for its involvement in a New South Wales-led medicinal marijuana trial, which could see patients or researchers given access to the drug in Canberra. View the full article

For terminal cancer sufferer Daniel House, the best thing Santa brought him yesterday was the gift of life. View the full article

Though G FarmaLabs is now a leader in the cannabis industry, it took time before success sprouted. View the full article

A judge has ordered a smartphone application that facilitates the delivery of medical marijuana to stop its activities in Los Angeles and to remove all reference to marijuana delivery within city limits. ... View the full article

Tasmanians who use medicinal cannabis for a serious illness want the State Government to guarantee they will not be prosecuted for its use and cultivation. View the full article

Chris Easterling was sick of relying on drug dealers in Minneapolis when he needed marijuana to help ease the pain of multiple sclerosis. They were flaky, often leaving the homeless man without the drug ... View the full article

Sharp-nosed police who noticed a strong whiff of cannabis coming from a Brisbane house have busted a major drug operation. View the full article

IT was a complaint from a sleepless, disgruntled senior Canberra bureaucrat that apparently led to Joe Cocker’s notorious October 1972 bust in Adelaide for marijuana — and deportation from Australia. View the full article