Cannabis Hemp News

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The nation's largest marijuana policy advocacy group said it will begin raising funds for a ballot measure in 2016 to legalize recreational marijuana use in California. View the full article

BALLARAT police uncovered a massive cannabis-growing operation at Sebastopol on Tuesday night after being called to the property on a burglary tip-off. View the full article

Stan Swiatek has tried his hand at many businesses. Through his company Sundial Growers Inc., Swiatek hopes to become one of the first federally-licensed facilities to produce medical marijuana in Alberta, to service what Health Canada estimates will be a $100-billion industry within the decade. In April, Ottawa changed its marijuana laws to phase out personal licenses to grow medical marijuana ... View the full article

A Saudi citizen, found guilty of smuggling hashish into the country, was executed, according to a Ministry of Interior statement. View the full article

Sept. 18, 2014, 4 a.m. THE government's move to establish clinical trials for medical marijuana is a "step forward" but it doesn't go far enough, the Wagga man behind a push to decriminalise the drug has said. View the full article

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing to decriminalize marijuana possession across Illinois and make it a misdemeanor instead of a felony to possess one gram or less of any controlled substance. For those caught with small amounts of marijuana, this would mean receiving a ticket instead of being arrested. View the full article

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Some of the imported hemp seeds detained by U.S. customs officials in the spring turned into 10-foot-tall plants that were harvested Tuesday on a research plot in Kentucky, where marijuana's non-intoxicating cousin has gained a foothold as a potential cash crop. View the full article

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's Interior Ministry says the country's authorities have destroyed marijuana of an estimated market value of 6.4 billion euro ($8.2 billion) this year — more than 60 percent of the country's annual GDP. View the full article

Seattle's elected prosecutor says he's dropping all tickets issued for the public use of marijuana through the first seven months of this year, because most of them were issued by a single police officer ... View the full article

THEIR father is a self-styled guru who claims he has no idea where his missing sons are. Now police have revealed the strange life of these boys - and the drugs they have been exposed to. View the full article

SEATTLE - Seattle's elected prosecutor said Monday he's dropping all tickets issued for the public use of marijuana through the first seven months of this year, because most of them were issued by a single police officer who disagrees with the legal pot law. View the full article

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle's elected prosecutor said Monday he's dropping all tickets issued for the public use of marijuana through the first seven months of this year, because most of them were issued by a single police officer who disagrees with the legal pot law. View the full article

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By Dave Graham and Ana Isabel Martinez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican state could approve medicinal use of marijuana by the end of this year, paving the way for further steps toward legalizing the drug, former Mexican President Vicente Fox said on Monday. Political pressure inside Mexico to liberalize its stance on marijuana has been rising since the U.S. states of Washington and Colorado ... View the full article

There it is, just growing among the petunias. View the full article