Cannabis Hemp News

(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

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

A CANNABIS-dependent drug trafficker caught with $6000 worth of marijuana avoided jail on Tuesday. View the full article

Cannabis can be as hard to give up as heroin, according to one of the largest ever studies into its effects. View the full article

At least 20 cities and counties around Oregon are racing to approve local taxes on marijuana in case voters in November decide to legalize recreational pot. The number has been growing, despite provisions ... View the full article

A St. John's man was in provincial court Tuesday afternoon after it was alleged he was stopped at St. John's International Airport with 28 kilograms –or 62 pounds– of marijuana Monday evening. View the full article

Ottawa (AFP) - A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer with a medical marijuana prescription for job-related stress has died of an apparent suicide after provoking a nationwide debate over his smoking in uniform. View the full article

The Berks County District Attorney believes a bad batch of synthetic marijuana may have been laced with heroin. View the full article

People who drive under the influence of marijuana double their risk of being in a car crash, and about one in 10 daily marijuana users becomes dependent on the drug, according to a new review. Marijuana use has become increasingly prevalent over the years, and the review of marijuana studies summarizes what researchers have learned about the drug's effects on human health and general well-being ... View the full article