Cannabis has been reclassified in England and Wales by the government from a Class C to a Class B drug, carrying a higher maximum jail sentence for possession.
PARIS, MAINE - Arguing that he uses marijuana for religious reasons, a 48-year-old Mexico man has filed suit against the state and two law enforcement agencies, charging violation of his constitutional rights.
In Malaysia, a 36-year-old odd-job worker was sentenced to death, and a 31-year-old former college student had his death sentence appeal dismissed in two separate cannabis trafficking cases.
HALIFAX - Vancouver has always been the hotbed of marijuana activism in Canada, but now a group of Nova Scotians is hoping to revive the campaign for looser cannabis laws, not with public protests and civil disobedience, but with a familiar East Coast export: music.
MEXICO CITY - President Felipe Calderon's war on drug trafficking has led to his own doorstep, with the arrest of a dozen high-ranking officials with alleged ties to Mexico's most powerful drug gang, the Sinaloa Cartel.
OTTAWA - A baby playing with a telephone inadvertently called police to his house in westernmost Canada, and to his "very surprised" father’s marijuana growing operation inside, police said Wednesday.