Cannabis Hemp News

In a case that some say could change the relationship between the states and the federal government regarding marijuana, a US district judge in Sacramento, Calif., has granted a three-day hearing starting Monday that challenges the federal ban on the substance. View the full article

A GROUP of desperate parents is set to launch a class action with the United Nations International Court of Justice in a dramatic bid to allow them to use medical marijuana on their sick children. View the full article

The Banff Centre is hosting a marijuana grow-op conference this week featuring a drug agent from Colorado as the keynote speaker. The three-day conference that begins Tuesday involves law enforcement, government and private sector members from across the province and will look at the impacts of grow-ops on communities. The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT), Calgary Police Service ... View the full article

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The 55-year-old was arrested on June 27 at the Dubai International Airport after customs officers found 13.2kg of cannabis seeds View the full article

Should doctors prescribe cannabis for medicinal purposes? View the full article

Undead zombies have taken over Melbourne streets in the annual running of the 'Zombie Shuffle'. View the full article

Montevideo (AFP) - Leftist former president Tabare Vazquez and his center-right rival Luis Lacalle Pou will head into a November 30 runoff after a presidential vote failed to deliver an outright winner, exit polls showed. View the full article

General Santos City — Local police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) personnel raided over the weekend a marijuana plantation located at the boundary between Malungon, Sarangani and Kiblawan, Sarangani. MARIJUANA RAID — Local policemen and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Region 12 personnel carry fully-grown marijuana plants which they uprooted and seized in a mountain village ... View the full article

An estimated €80,000 worth of plants were seized. View the full article

What's the Catch?, SBS One, 8.30pm Former Fairfax food writer turned lifestyle chef with his SBS series, Gourmet Farmer , Matthew Evans has perhaps made the most significant contribution to food journalism of his career with this revolutionary investigation into Australia's seafood industry, which has initiated a Senate inquiry into fish labelling. View the full article

Montevideo (AFP) - Ten years after surging to power for the first time, Uruguay's left is trying to hold onto it Sunday in elections to pick the successor to folksy iconoclast Jose Mujica. View the full article

By Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguayans vote on Sunday in a presidential election with the ruling leftist party trying to fend off a young centre-right challenger who promises to undo a pioneering marijuana law. Outgoing President Jose Mujica, a 79-year-old former guerrilla, is seeking to hand power back to his predecessor Tabare Vazquez. Between them, Mujica and the 74-year-old ... View the full article

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COLONEL Samuel Blackall died in 1871 but on March 12, 1875 the people of Ipswich were still trying to decide what to erect to commemorate this popular man. View the full article