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Saturday, 20 November 2010

A French duck farmer has been given a one-month suspended jail sentence and fined 500 euros (£428) for feeding his birds marijuana to rid them of worms.Police arrested Michel Rouyer, from the...

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Friday, 20 August 2010

A drug educator says police should not wait for the public to complain before taking action against a cannabis law reformer planning to smoke dope in Whangarei today.Legalise cannabis campaigner...

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Saturday, 11 September 2010

In Toronto a new type of yoga class has cropped up: Ganja Yoga, cannabis-enhanced yoga classes. It's unclear whether it will become a global down-low speakeasy-type yoga trend, though it is...

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Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Kuwaiti authorities have arrested a traffic police man for possessing drugs and smoking hashish while on duty, Alanba newspaper reported on Sunday. 

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Top Canadian court ends government pot monopoly
Canadians who are legally permitted to smoke pot to treat illness won a victory in the Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday when it refused to hear an appeal of a ruling that put an end to the federal government monopoly.
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A three-judge panel, without giving reasons, rejected the Justice Department's application to challenge a Federal Court of Appeal decision that gave licensed producers the right to grow marijuana.
The Supreme Court's decision to stay out of the matter effectively upholds the 2008 ruling, which dismissed the government's argument that the industry would be thrust into deregulation if the court loosened federal restrictions.

The decision was a victory for a group of patients who challenged the federal regulations, arguing that the government-issued pot, supplied by Prairie Plant Systems in Manitoba, is too weak and that they should have the option to find their own supply.

The appeal court decision struck down government regulations that authorized users who cannot grow their own marijuana to designate a grower, or obtain government-issued weed.
The patients sought the right to buy marijuana from Carasel Harvest Supply Corp., which, under the current regime, was not allowed to supply more than one patient with medical marijuana.

There are about 2,000 people legally allowed to use marijuana for medical purposes, but the lower court found only 20 per cent buy it from the government supplier.

Justice Department lawyer Sean Gaudet argued in the appeal court that statistics weren't enough to conclude the government-supplied marijuana was inadequate, or forced people to seek drugs on the black market.

Moreover, sanctioning growers to supply more than one patient would allow the industry to develop "without safeguards" and exacerbate the risk that marijuana will be diverted to improper use, he said.

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