Cannabis Hemp News

Investors in a potential medical marijuana-growing operation are trying to persuade a city council in south-central Illinois to reconsider their zoning request, and they're offering money to local schools ... View the full article

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Legislation to allow marijuana for medical use has cleared an important hurdle in Colombia. View the full article

Marines and police scouring Sulu for the Abu Sayyaf stumbled yesterday on a marijuana plantation on the outskirts of Maimbung town. Col. Allan Arrojado, Sulu Joint Task Group commander, said the marijuana plants were uprooted and turned over to the Maimbung police for proper disposal. The plantation was discovered at Sitio Kabugan, Barangay Patao at about 6 a.m., he added. View the full article

The girlfriend of an Aust man who faces jail time in Indonesian jail says she didn't know he used drugs. View the full article

Watch "potprenuer" Josh Gordon roll out his pot-packaging idea in just 60 seconds to a panel of experts. View the full article

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- ArcView Group Market Research, a San Francisco-based Cannabis investment research firm, forecasts a 64 percent surge in the legal US cannabis market to $2.34 billion, from ... View the full article

Marcello Casella, the youngest brother in Australia's largest family-owned winery, Casella Wines, is alleged to be part of a criminal syndicate and has appeared in Griffith Local Court. View the full article

The company that took over the former Hershey chocolate works in Smiths Falls in 2013 is harvesting its biggest crop yet of medical marijuana and Ottawa Morning's Stu Mills got a tour of the plant. View the full article

Security patrols in the Jazan region have foiled attempts to smuggle a total of 54 blocks of hashish on two separate occasions in the Al-Harth and Al-Tewal provinces. View the full article

A MOOGERAH man has faced court after he unwittingly grew thousands of marijuana plants. View the full article

Oakland -- Terra Tech Corp (TRTC) is pleased to announce they have completed testing and formulating compounds at their cannabinoid extraction facility in Northern California and are now moving into production. ... View the full article

The first medical marijuana clinic in Quebec has opened its doors in Montreal. The goal of Santé Cannabis is to evaluate patients for therapies using medical marijuana, said Adam Greenblatt, the clinics's executive director. "There’s about one million patients across Quebec who medicate with cannabis in some way or another," Greenblatt told CBC's Daybreak. View the full article

DENVER (AP) — The booming new marijuana industry has an image problem. Not with government officials and the public — but with other businesses. View the full article

MONROVIA, Calif. -- Everlert, Inc. (OTC:EVLI), effective Monday, November 10, 2014, Mark Blankenship, Virgil L. Nickell and Robert L. Hymers III were appointed to Everlert's board of directors. Darin Shaw, ... View the full article

GARY Glitter has denied a string of alleged sex offences against three girls in the 1970s and early 1980s. View the full article