Health Canada Mails Details of Marijuana Users
A privacy breach on the part of Health Canada has landed personal information in the hands of a medical marijuana patient in Toronto.
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IRS Tells California Medical Marijuana Dispensary it Owes Millions in Unpaid Taxes
The Internal Revenue Service has notified the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Fairfax that it owes millions of dollars in unpaid back taxes, according to the alliance's founder and director, Lynnette Shaw.
Health Canada Proposes Ban on Hallucinogen Salvia
The federal government is proposing to ground "pyschonauts" from taking any more psychedelic trips on salvia divinorum.
Congressman Targets Federal Funding for the War on Drugs
Colorado Congressman Jared Polis has offered two amendments to the House continuing resolution that would eliminate much of the federal funding for the war on drugs in the United States.
Liberals To Vote Against Bill S-10 Even if Conservatives Make it a Confidence Vote
Liberals are ready to go to the polls over the latest government crime bill that’s leading to another round of head-butting in the Commons, saying the legislation could bring jail time for something as innocent as a high school student passing on extra-strength Tylenol capsules to another student with a toothache.
Obama Proposes 43 Percent Cut For Murtha’s National Drug Intelligence Center
A project championed by the late Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) got the axe in the fiscal year 2012 budget proposed by President Barack Obama on Monday.
Liberal Party Opposes Bill S-10 and Mandatory Minimums for Marijuana
CANNABIS CULTURE - The Liberal Party of Canada has broken its silence and officially announced its opposition to Bill S-10, the Conservative legislation that includes mandatory minimum sentences for marijuana offences.
American Facing Death Penalty in Egypt for Hemp Oil
CANNABIS CULTURE - A US citizen jailed as a drug trafficker in Egypt in December after importing a shipment of non-drug hemp oil there was freed from jail late last month when mobs of protestors overran prisons across Cairo, but remains in legal limbo.
Patients Ask Ottawa to Fix Flawed Medical Marijuana Program
CANNABIS CULTURE - A group of medical marijuana patients travelled to Parliament Hill today to draw attention to the government's "wildly dysfunctional and onerous medical marijuana regulations" and the effects they are having on sick Canadians.
Woman Takes Medical Pot Plea to Ottawa
A southern Alberta woman is taking her fight over what she calls her "right" to use marijuana for medicinal purposes all the way to Ottawa.
