Cannabis Hemp News

Australia's health ministers have offered their support to NSW in its bid to get a clinical trial of medicinal cannabis off the ground. View the full article

Brushing aside jokes about intoxicated livestock, Alberta farmers are growing industrial hemp, a crop that has become more profitable than canola and other conventional products. View the full article

AUSTRALIA'S health ministers have offered their support to NSW in its bid to get a clinical trial of medicinal cannabis off the ground. View the full article

LOCAL medical marijuana advocates have reacted with horror at the confiscation of cannabis medicine from a Sydney mum as she was boarding a cruise ship this week. View the full article

The rapidly shifting politics of medical cannabis will change dramatically on Tuesday as the ACT government signs up to a national clinical trial of the controversial health treatment. View the full article

NATIONALS MP Mark Coulton is backing moves to legalise industrial hemp production to help boost regional economics and generate jobs. View the full article

THE VICTORIAN Government has appointed an expert advisory committee on medicinal cannabis, which will meet for the first time next week. View the full article

Suspect admits smoking 8 cigarettes of hashish during one-day trip to his home country View the full article

By Steve Scherer ROVIGO Italy (Reuters) - Italy legalised marijuana for medical use last year, but the high cost of buying legal pot in a pharmacy meant few people signed up. Now, the government has found a solution: get the army to grow it. Starting next year, a high-security lab in a military compound in Florence will grow cannabis for Italy's health care system in an experiment the government ... View the full article

A MAN caught growing 308 marijuana plants in “grow houses” has been jailed for seven years. View the full article

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The legalization of marijuana in two U.S. states, could put pressure on drinks makers, or as some analysts suggest, provide an big opportunity. View the full article

Last night’s SBS Insight special looking at the legalisation of marijuana nearly doubled its audience with 265,000 viewers, up from 167,0000 last week in the wake of an advertising campaign in Sydney and Melbourne. It came on a night when Nine’s renovation show The Block again topped the Oztam metro overnight ratings with an audience of […] The post Insight nearly doubles audience for heavily ... View the full article

OTTAWA - The Harper government's resolve to enforce the law against marijuana use is unshaken by a call to legalize pot from the country's largest mental health and addiction treatment centre. View the full article

HOUSTON (AP) — Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson should be arrested anew after admitting during his court appearance on a child abuse charge that he had "smoked a little weed" while out on bond, Texas prosecutors said Thursday. View the full article