Federal prosecutors pursuing drug charges against Montana medical marijuana operators want to keep jurors from hearing any evidence at trial about the state's medical pot law or whether the operators were complying with it.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Ontario Court of Appeal court dates have been chosen for R. v. Mernagh: the court ruling gutting Canada’s federal medical marijuana program and personal possession and cultivation laws is set to be heard March 5 and 6, 2012.
A federal appeals court upheld the conviction and 10-year sentence Wednesday of a medical marijuana advocate who grew 32,000 pot plants for patients and fellow Rastafarians on his land in Lake County.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Watch Cannabis Culture News LIVE for the latest news and views on pot politics and the marijuana community. On today's show: Former Manitoba MLA Bob Wilson - who served seven years in prison after being convicted in a marijuana smuggling case - joins the show to discuss news of the arrest of his former friend and co-accused, Ian Jackson MacDonald. MacDonald, who escaped from prison 30 years ago, insists Wilson is innocent.
After an only-in-the-Netherlands legal reverse, the city of Amsterdam said Wednesday it will likely have to stub out the “no toking” signs it introduced in a crackdown on marijuana-smoking youth.
The state Supreme Court has ruled that an employer can fire a worker who uses medical marijuana, even when the worker uses the drug at home and experiences no side effects on the job.