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The 88 California licensed recreational marijuana stores began the New Year with price-cutting and big sales volumes.

California New Year’s Day partiers can only buy legal recreational marijuana at 44 locations across the state, as cities like Los Angeles are suffering problems setting up taxes and dealing with union infighting.

California unions are demanding that 100,000 marijuana production, packaging and distribution workers organize in anticipation of the legalization of recreational weed on January 1.

Tim Farron’s Liberal Democrats have released its general election manifesto, pledging to hold a second EU referendum, scrap the marriage allowance, legalise cannabis, and implement policies which will increase immigration.

Israel’s army is to relax its disciplinary action against soldiers accused of smoking cannabis while on leave, a general overseeing the reform said Wednesday.

The Associated Press published more details about alleged Cascade Mall shooter Arcan Cetin on Wednesday, including the assertion that “cannabis use” was the cause of his prior brushes with the law.

TEL AVIV – Israel will begin exporting medical marijuana abroad, Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel said Sunday.

With 39 million people, and a booming 20-year-old medical marijuana trade, California politicians will soon have $1 billion a year in extra cash to spend — if the new recreational marijuana initiative passes on the November ballot.

TEL AVIV – The ever first study on licensed medical marijuana users in Israel revealed that 99.6% of patients applied for the drug after conventional medications had no effect, The Jerusalem Post reported.

(AFP) – Hundreds of police raided about 100 premises Monday in a swoop on drug gangs in the southern Netherlands, prosecutors said. Fifty-five suspects were detained in “Operatie Trefpunt” (Operation Meeting Point), the prosecution service said in a statement, adding

TEL AVIV – American companies are investing in Israeli medical marijuana R&D in an attempt to bring Israel’s extensive cannabis prowess back home, Reuters reported. The Jewish state has already established itself as a pioneer in high-tech and cutting-edge agriculture, and

(AFP) – France and Canada have the highest percentage of 15-year-old pot smokers among 42 well-off nations surveyed by the World Health Organization, the UN agency said in a report Tuesday. When it comes to policing marijuana, France is far

“Roseanne’s Joint” — that’s the name of a new Santa Ana, California marijuana dispensary owned by ‘90s-era television star and comedian Roseanne Barr, set to open this spring.

Former Portland Trail Blazer Cliff Robinson claims he’s always been a marijuana proponent, but now takes that advocacy to a new level.

An anti-marijuana campaign in Australia featuring a human-sized lumbering stoned sloth acting foolishly has backfired and become the brunt of jokes on social media. Launched this week using the slogan “You’re worse on weed”, it attempts to warn teenagers of

On November 4, Mexico’s Supreme Court made a landmark—and highly controversial—decision, declaring that individuals should have the right to grow and distribute marijuana for their personal use. The ruling applies only to a single cannabis club that filed the suit, but may have initiated a domino effect that will pave the way for eventual marijuana legalization.

Nearly 100,000 people have signed an official petition calling for the British government to legalise the production, sale and use of cannabis. The petition, which is the second most popular on UK Parliament website, claims that legalising the drug could

Cannabis users in Durham, northern England, will be free to grow it for their own consumption after the local police force said they will no longer actively target people who take the drug. The Times reports that Ron Hogg, police