Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has certainly gotten attention on the world stage since his country legalized marijuana commerce last week, and not all of it has been favorable.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Despite the remarkable efforts of thousands of volunteers, the Sensible BC campaign to decriminalize marijuana fell short of its target, collecting 2/3 of the signatures needed to put the issue on the ballot.
If someone told you a couple years ago there would be a website run by the state of Illinois to help people smoke marijuana you’d probably think they were high.
Marijuana will now be collected by medical supply company Sarel, and packaged and distributed to approved pharmacies, but marijuana growers and some patients protest centralized distribution, saying it will lead to a monopoly and neglect of patients.
In one of its last acts of the legislative session, the Michigan Senate passed a bill mandating drug testing for selected welfare applicants and recipients.
City officials on Wednesday began the process of shutting down medical marijuana shops next to homes as part of strict new regulations to be rolled out next year.
New Brunswick’s Public Safety Department says a Mountie who publicly complained about not being able to smoke medicinal marijuana while on the job was subdued with a stun gun and charged with assaulting another RCMP officer.