Cannabis Hemp News

The largest addiction and treatment centre in Canada is calling for the legalization of marijuana with controls — a move lauded overwhelmingly by CBC Toronto readers. The Toronto-based Centre for Addiction and Mental Health says any reforms on marijuana controls should include measures on prevention and harm reduction, which the current system fails to do, according to Dr. Jurgen Rehm, director ... View the full article

MOMENTUM is building towards a landmark medical marijuana conference in Tamworth, with a host of new names signed on this week. View the full article

The Toronto-based Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is calling for the legalization of marijuana with strict controls. Do you agree? Why or why not? View the full article

Recreational marijuana sellers are reaching out to novice cannabis users with a raft of edible products that impart a milder buzz and make it easy for inexperienced customers to find a dose they won't ... View the full article

Recreational marijuana sellers are reaching out to novice cannabis users with a raft of edible products that impart a milder buzz and make it easy for inexperienced customers to find a dose they won't ... View the full article

Police have arrested two people after raiding a Geelong home containing 250 cannabis plants. View the full article

Marijuana should be legalized with strict controls to curb its use and social harms, the Toronto-based Centre for Addiction and Mental Health says. Canada’s current system of cannabis control fails to prevent or reduce harms associated with its use, Dr. Jurgen Rehm, director of social and epidemiological research at CAMH, said Thursday as the hospital released a new policy document on the drug. View the full article

DENVER (AP) — Recreational marijuana sellers are reaching out to novice cannabis users with a raft of edible products that impart a milder buzz and make it easy for inexperienced customers to find a dose they won't regret taking. View the full article

(Reuters) - Sheriff's deputies who were checking a report that the electricity of a Houston-area home had been tampered with found nearly $2 million worth of marijuana plants in the house, authorities said on Wednesday. Nearly 500 marijuana plants were found Tuesday night at the house in Humble, Texas, about 20 miles northeast of Houston, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said in a statement ... View the full article

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Bottles of legal marijuana-infused soda delivered to a Washington state pot shop started exploding on the store shelf. View the full article

Lighting equipment seized from illegal cannabis factories is to help grow plants at the former home of one of the British architects of the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. View the full article

A "life changing" cannabis-based medicine for multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferers already approved in Wales has been rejected for use in England as being too expensive. View the full article

NSW is set to go it alone on its clinical cannabis trial but may eventually "collaborate with other jurisdictions". View the full article

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - A pioneering cannabis drug developed by British firm GW Pharmaceuticals for treating spasticity in multiple sclerosis has been rejected as not cost-effective in the company's home market. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which determines if medicines are worth using on England's state health service, said on Wednesday the modest ... View the full article

Rick Steves smokes the occasional joint, but he's not arguing for marijuana legalization in Oregon just because he likes to get high. Steves, a nationally known guidebook author and host on public radio ... View the full article