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Philadelphia has enacted legislation that allows police to ticket people for possessing small amounts of marijuana instead of arresting them. View the full article

A $12 million renovation of the old Clairtone building in Stellarton, Nova Scotia is taking shape, as the aging structure is transformed into one of Canada's largest medical marijuana production facilities. Vida Cannabis, a company led by Ottawa venture capitalist Greg Wilson, bought the building from the Town of Stellarton for $500,000. Wilson says all the money needed to cover the expensive ... View the full article

TAMWORTH'S bid to host Australia's largest ever medical marijuana convention is heating up, with NSW Premier Mike Baird and a host of international speakers already confirmed. View the full article

In what may come as a surprise to those whose knowledge of Jamaica is gleaned from Bob Marley albums and TV shows about Rastas, smoking cannabis is a criminal offence in the Caribbean country. View the full article

By David Minsky (Reuters) - Marijuana advocates in Mississippi have filed a petition to put the legalization of recreational pot use on the politically conservative state's 2016 ballot, state officials said Tuesday. The petition, filed Monday, comes amid a broader, nationwide push for marijuana legalization spurred by Washington state and Colorado voting to become the first U.S. states to allow ... View the full article

DENVER (AP) — Colorado's new marijuana industry is in for a brand new element Wednesday — competition. View the full article

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Water use and other actions by the marijuana industry in the Emerald Triangle of Northern California and Southern Oregon are threatening salmon already in danger of extinction, federal biologists said Tuesday. View the full article

Six people have died and over 100 were poisoned in a Russian city after smoking a synthetic version of marijuana. View the full article

A mother whose 10-year-old son suffers from a rare form of epilepsy has backed a de-registered doctor's drive to treat the condition with medical cannabis. View the full article

Washington, Sept 30 (ANI): Snoop Dogg has promised to perform a live show in Alaska if marijuana gets legalized in the state. View the full article

Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it. Brandon Coats, a quadriplegic medical marijuana patient who was fired by the Dish Network after failing a drug test more than four ... View the full article

SBS is promoting its upcoming debate on its Insight show on whether medicinal marijuana should be legalised with a portable display allowing people to grow or gas synthetic marijuana plants. The debate is set to be screened on October 7, with the broadcaster promoting it with the portable stand, which is currently in henry dean […] The post SBS raises marijuana debate with plants getting gassed ... View the full article

HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — An election official in Guam says a medical-marijuana vote will go forward as planned on the November ballot unless told otherwise. View the full article

DENVER (AP) — The entrepreneurs of the young U.S. marijuana industry are taking another step into the mainstream, becoming political donors who use some of their profits to support cannabis-friendly candidates and ballot questions that could bring legal pot to more states. View the full article

London, Sept 29 (ANI): A Californian firm has come up with weed-laced chocolate bar that is reportedly ideal for 'cannabis patients with a love for chocolate and a refined palate'. View the full article