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By Daniel Lovering BOSTON (Reuters) - Attorneys clashed in court on Tuesday over whether a friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber was too high on marijuana to have deliberately lied to investigators about his role in the aftermath of the worst attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. A federal prosecutor said Robel Phillipos, 21, lied repeatedly to FBI agents after the April 15, 2013 ... View the full article

LONDON - Powerful lights confiscated by police during marijuana raids are now being used by the groundsman of English third tier soccer club Rochdale to help the turf grow on its field. View the full article

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- via PRWEB - GreenWave Advisors, LLC, a newly established independent research and advisory firm serving the burgeoning marijuana industry released its inaugural research report, "The ... View the full article

A drugs haul worth €63,000 was uncovered in the raid. View the full article

EAGLE POINT, Ore. -- Grow Condos, Inc. located in Eagle Point, Oregon, a leading provider of "Condominium" style warehouse space for the emerging cannabis industry announces that Dan Rogers Chief ... View the full article

The suspects confessed that the plan was masterminded by the third suspect who is a bachelor and that he is the one who smuggled drugs for distribution. View the full article

DENVER (AP) — Colorado health officials want to ban many edible forms of marijuana, including brownies, cookies and most candies, limiting legal sales of pot-infused food to lozenges and some liquids. View the full article

People caught with small amounts of marijuana in Philadelphia will no longer end up with a criminal record. View the full article

With the medical marijuana industry growing (23 states and counting) the new trend in the cannabis industry is something that's largely legal -- products involving cannabinoids, a part of the plant that doesn't get you high. View the full article

By Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguay is struggling to roll out the commercial production and sale of marijuana and its ground-breaking experiment could be dropped or watered down if an opposition candidate wins this month's presidential election. The South American country is the world's first to permit the cultivation, distribution and use of marijuana, aiming to wrest control of ... View the full article

FOUR men allegedly involved in an interstate drug trafficking ring faced court yesterday after they were arrested at Reedy Creek Shopping Centre. View the full article

Police say a drug and gun smuggling syndicate between Australia and Papua New Guinea has been shut down, seizing nearly 1000 cannabis plants and chemicals. View the full article

The main proponent of medical marijuana bill appealed yesterday to the oppositors of his measure to allow Congress to debate on the safe, controlled, and beneficial use of the herbal substance before outrighly rejecting it. Isabela Rep. Rodolfo “Rodito” Albano III, who authored House Bill 4477 or the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Bill made the appeal as various physicians’ groups signed ... View the full article

A FORMER police officer who turned to marijuana for pain relief will head up a new, non-profit organisation aimed at supporting medicinal users of the drug. View the full article

Various physicians’ groups signed a joint statement strongly opposing a House Bill (HB) on the legalization of marijuana use in the country. The doctors, led by members of the Philippine Medical Association (PMA), opposed the HB 4477 or the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Bill filed by Isabela first district representative Rodolfo Albano III in May seeking to regulate the use of marijuana ... View the full article