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A leading activist for marijuana legalization says he was detained at the Canadian border on Monday and denied entry after agents determined he had been arrested during a 2008 protest in St. Paul, Minnesota. Paul McCarrier, the president of Legalize Maine, a nonprofit advocacy group that helped...

Several lawmakers said Wednesday that GOP leaders won't allow the full House to vote on an amendment that bars the Justice Department from pursuing states that have legalized medical marijuana. Without legislation, states would lose protection they have enjoyed for the past four years, and...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie called Wednesday for loosening Virginia's marijuana laws, raising the state's grand larceny threshold and ending driver's license suspensions for unpaid court costs as part of a broad effort to reform the state's criminal justice system...

A young boy who once suffered up to 30 potentially fatal seizures a month hasn't had one in over 300 days and his family are celebrating by hosting a festival to raise awareness about the positive effects of cannabis oil. Billy Caldwell (11) has incurable intractable and status epilepsy...

An 11-year-old boy with epilepsy who became the first patient to be prescribed cannabis oil on the NHS has not had a seizure in 300 days, his family have said. Billy Caldwell 11, once suffered up to 30 potentially fatal seizures a month due to his epilepsy, which does not respond to medicine or...

Not long ago, a supporter of mine, visiting from California, dropped by my Capitol office. A retired military officer and staunch conservative, he and I spent much of our conversation discussing the Republican agenda. Finally, I drew a breath and asked him about an issue I feared might...

Police in Crawford County, Indiana say a Leavenworth man was arrested after more than 50 marijuana plants were found in his home. According to a news release, 43-year-old Jeremy Clark, of Leavenworth, was arrested Saturday. Police obtained a search warrant for Clark's home. Authorities say...

A drug dealer who was found with more than £300 in cash claimed it was his 'early Christmas money' when quizzed by police. Dale Anthony Edwards was also found with 20 bags of cannabis valued at around £500 when police raided the house he lived at with his mum and sister. Four cannabis...

A garage in a rented cottage was converted into a hidden cannabis growing factory containing 50 plants with a potential yield of £42,000. The double garage doors were completely blocked off from the inside and the only access to the garage was via a secret trapdoor. The trapdoor was in the...

The irony of it all is overwhelming. Gaetan Bourgoin, who had no trouble getting his worker's compensation insurance to pay for decades' worth of highly addictive painkillers of dubious value to his chronic pain, has been forced to go into his own pocket for the one treatment he has found to be...

As pastor of the St. John's Lutheran Church in Abbottstown, PA for the last eight years, Shawn Berkebile has always considered it his duty to help "the least, the lost and the helpless." That includes medical marijuana patients. Berkebile — or the "pastor for pot", as he's known these...

Roger Stone, a longtime Republican strategist and frequent advisor to President Donald Trump, is apologizing for racist and misogynistic remarks he made after cannabis activists and executives threatened to boycott his keynote speech at an industry conference in September. The calls for a...

A California man who authorities say was traveling with $700,000 worth of marijuana has pleaded not guilty to drug charges. Harold Miller waived his right to a preliminary hearing during an appearance in South Central District Court Monday. Court documents say the 71-year-old Sacramento...

The industry's first black master grower Aaron McCrary says he's worked in every role in marijuana cultivation, from "the street corner now to the boardroom." The co-owner and operator of Zion Gardens cultivation facility in North Las Vegas, McCrary spoke with the Las Vegas Sun about his...

Brian Lade, president of Smokey Point Productions, grew his first marijuana plants clandestinely in the family garage when he was 17. Through his ventures over the years in the marijuana trade — selling to medical dispensaries and underground — today he is enjoying the sweet smell of success for...

Andrew Jones' company Connoisseur Concentrates has a marketing video on its website that can only be described as perplexing. For an hour and six minutes, Jones, clad in a white hoodie with the word "Crooks" silkscreened on the front, tells viewers how he's poised to dominate his industry...

Is the UK actually fairly tolerant of cannabis use despite its classification as a Class B drug? This is the open-ended conclusion reached by BBC Newsbeat reporter Jim Connolly in his new documentary Cannabis: Time for a Change? With attitudes towards cannabis use around the world...

Comedian Andrew Dice Clay says cannabis is the secret to his success. In a recent interview with Maxim, the shock comic revealed that he developed his outrageous standup material in the 80s and 90s by having a couple tokes before beginning his sets. "I'll go on stage, I'll take two hits of...

A man who made headlines for destroying evidence by eating cannabis he had hidden in his bottom was arrested as part of the raids in Strike Force Arctic last week. Hamish Macintyre-Cathles, 38, of Bomaderry was arrested during the operation and charged with three counts of supplying a...

A 24-year-old DeFuniak Springs man who drove through a city police checkpoint with marijuana wafting from the car was arrested. Officers determined that he didn't have a driver's license and had never had one, according to his Fort Walton Beach Police Department arrest report. He also had...