Marijuana

Move comes despite growth of domestic marijuana retail sector as industry projected to be worth up to $1.2b by 2025

Canadian-Pakistani national caught growing cannabis in air-conditioned boxes with imported seeds, soil

Amazon will not screen job applicants for marijuana use for positions not regulated by Department of Transportation

CBI is now studying the drugs angle while investigating Sushant Singh Rajput's death

CBD has become a big fad in the western world, and consumers are willing to pay top dollar for the unproven cure-all

Decision is a part of slowly changing worldwide view towards illegal drug used for medical benefits

He says the war on drugs has disproportionately targeted people of color, ruined the lives of millions of Americans

77 kilograms of high-quality marijuana was seized from hidden parts of the vehicle during the inspection

A sniffer dog alerted officers to a trailer with a shipment of peppers in San Diego

While prohibiting pot products that might appeal to children such as gummy bears or lollipops

Participants provided information about how frequently they had used marijuana and other drugs over a period of years

Los Angeles is considered the world's largest pot market

Growing, dealing and consumption of cannabis for recreational purposes is illegal in Zambia

Several nations have embraced use of medicinal cannabis including Canada, Australia, Israel, and many states in US

Thailand legalised marijuana on Tuesday in a landmark decision for a region with some of the harshest drug laws

Will be held during 2020 elections

Canada legalised recreational marijuana use on Oct 17

Statistics Canada says 5.4 million Canadians will buy cannabis from legal dispensaries in 2018

Pot stocks soar on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges

Canada became the first major Western nation to legalise and regulate its sale and recreational use

After Uruguay, Canada will be the second country to legalise the herb

Activists call for cannabis to be decriminalised for use in public

Drug is approved for use against Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and Dravet syndrome in patients two years of age and older

Reuters poll shows marijuana legalization or decriminalization is popular in US

Senator Cory Gardner says Trump assures him to support legislation 'to fix this states' rights issue once and for all

Cannabis also helps nearly 20% to stop taking painkillers as well

New Delhi stands at number three among the top 10 cities of the world

Previously, the Obama administration’s guidelines had created a safe harbor for this drug industry

Six people were arrested in connection with the haul, but police have not provided a street value for the seized drugs

Beasley told journalists he escaped because he was being extorted, although he did not say by whom

Four major fires in the Los Angeles area have forced 200,000 people to flee and destroyed hundreds of homes

Last year there were 3,098 road incidents involving drug impairment

Despite the widely held view that cannabis is benign, this research adds to previous work suggesting otherwise

Indonesia has amongst the strictest drug laws in the world and has been jailing a record number of users and dealers

Uruguay passed a law in 2013, fully legalising the production, sale and consumption of marijuana

Activists near the US Capitol handed out free joints to mark '4/20 day' and highlight their effort to legalise pot

The move to legalise recreational use of marijuana is supported by a strong majority of Canadians

The legislation would be unveiled the week of April 10 and passed by July 2018

The strategy is to create medical-grade cannabis with quality and efficacy ensured

If the bill is passed, Peru would follow neighboring Chile and Colombia in legalizing the medical use of marijuana

The potency of cannabis has on average doubled worldwide in the past 40 years

California was the first US state to legalize medical marijuana, doing so in 1996

The vote will give momentum to efforts to end federal prohibition of marijuana

Students would be trained to work at local companies that produce the drug

Twenty-five states have alreadt sanctioned some forms of marijuana use for medical purposes

Alternative Solutions in Washington authorized to grow medical marijuana for nearly 3,700 local patients

Law that took effect in 2015 allows adults to possess small amounts of marijuana, grow, and consume it at home

The study ignored broader health, social policy and criminal justice issues

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised the move during the recent election campaign that swept his Liberals to power

The ruling opens a broad debate on how to regulate the use of marijuana, says Mexican president