Supporters of legalizing marijuana for medical uses put forward a new approach in the Senate this morning, voting on a proposal that would allow sick people to use their illness as a defense if arrested for smoking pot.
Police officers in Houston and Tulsa last week shot and killed two men in separate drug enforcement-related incidents last week. The victims become the 18th and 19th to be killed in US domestic drug law enforcement incidents so far this year.
Ian Jackson MacDonald, jailed after being caught on 30-year-old marijuana smuggling charges, maintains his innocence and has cleared the name of Former Winnipeg MLA Bob Wilson, who served seven years in prison for related charges.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Golden Age Hollywood goddess Elizabeth Taylor, who died yesterday at the age of 79, leaves a legacy on the Silver Screen and rumors she 'turned on' with marijuana.
City Lights, the London, Ontario bookstore formerly owned by imprisoned marijuana activist Marc Emery, has contributed hundreds of titles to a local prison book drive.
Cannabis inhalation is associated with spontaneous brain tumor regression in two subjects, according to a pair of case reports to be published in Child's Nervous System, the official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery.
When federal agents led a raid on medical marijuana businesses in Montana last week, questions were raised as to whether these businesses were raided because they were suspected of selling out of the proverbial back door to people without medical marijuana permits–or whether they were raided simply for being medical marijuana businesses.