Nearly 1,000 police officers were fired to weed out corruption from the violence-ravaged Gulf coast state of Veracruz, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.
Medical-marijuana dealers in two states seeking legitimacy for their industry have voted to join a union, offering prospects for private-sector expansion to the stagnating U.S. labor movement.
CANNABIS CULTURE - The Prince of Pot: The U.S. Vs Marc Emery, one of the best documentary film to explain the plight of the prominent Canadian marijuana activist, is now available through the iTunes store.
Despite three visits by Detroit police and officers' warnings that no one should consume marijuana, organizers of the Detroit Cannabis Cup -- a two-day medical-marijuana convention in an Eastern Market jazz club -- said Monday that they went ahead with their contest to pick Michigan's best strains of the drug.
CANNABIS CULTURE - The Conservatives' ominous omnibus crime bill, C-10, is coming under fire from all sides. Experts, opposition politicians, and even conservative crime-fighters from Texas warn the bill is "counterproductive" and could spell disaster for Canada.
CANNABIS CULTURE - In the wake of a federal onslaught against medical marijuana in California, the California Medical Association (CMA) adopted an official policy that recommends legalization and regulation of cannabis at their delegates annual meeting in Anaheim on October 14.