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The governor of Metropolitan Santiago, Claudio Orrego, announced on Monday the approval by Chilean authorities of the first farm in this capital to grow marijuana for medicinal and research purposes.
Italy is poised to release about ten thousand inmates due to a shift in sentencing laws that eases punishment for cannabis use, growth and possession. The change comes as a result of the striking down of a law that previously tripled cannabis related sentences.
It appears that the Israel Defense Force has publicly announced that being prescribed cannabis and continuing to use cannabis while actively part of the IDF is not in itself grounds for medical ineligibility for the mandated service.
British Columbia medical marijuana promoters are turning to former police chiefs and prominent politicians to help sell their products and attract mom and pop investors.
A Canadian drug kingpin who was one of New York's biggest marijuana suppliers and was dubbed the Pot Playboy was sentenced Wednesday to 27 years in prison for leading a $1 billion international drug trafficking enterprise...
During a morning news segment, CCTV aired pixelated footage showing Jaycee Chan, the son of martial arts legend Jackie Chan, and Taiwanese actor Ko Chen-tung being interrogated by police about drug possession.
President Juan Manuel Santos signaled his support Thursday for a bill that would allow the medical use of marijuana in Colombia, which the Colombian Congress will debate in September.
It's unconstitutional to forbid licensed medical marijuana users from possessing pot-laced products such as cookies or body creams, a B.C. Court of Appeal judge rules.
A German woman has emigrated to Switzerland where she can get government supplied synthetic heroin that, she claims, is the reason she has been able to regain control of her life.
Despite a recent decree from Pope Francis admonishing marijuana use, the Catholic Church of the Philippines has come out in support of medical marijuana.
The newly formed department charged with creating and regulating the national cannabis market in Uruguay, the Institute for the Regulation and Control of Cannabis (IRCCA), is accepting bids from cannabis cultivators until August 18th.
Will Guatemala ever legalize marijuana? Maybe. The country's president, Otto Perez Molina, didn't rule out the possibility of legalizing the drug during an interview with The Washington Post on Thursday. Guatemalan presidents serve only one term, and Molina's time is up in early 2016.
Almost two-thirds of Australians support the legalization of cannabis for medicinal purposes, according to a new poll which coincides with a renewed push to relax the laws.
Recent changes to Health Canada’s medical marijuana regulations have forced a six-year-old boy suffering from Dravet syndrome to smoke marijuana in order to tame his seizures because the health agency prohibited the use of edibles and concentrates.
In Germany, five people who couldn't afford medical marijuana had their requests to grow originally denied, but three were given the green light on Tuesday. A court spokesperson warned, however, that "this is not a carte blanche for everyone to start growing cannabis at home."
A Nigerian college student gets death for trafficking 26.5kg of cannabis in Malaysia four years ago.
This January, under government pressure, many of the United Kingdom’s internet service providers (ISPs) turned on "porn filters" for all of their customers, but as warned by opponents of Internet regulation, the filters are now blocking large amounts of clean content.
At the semi-annual summit of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), held July 1-4 in Antigua, regional leaders agreed to establish a commission to review marijuana policy and assess the need for reforms.
