TRENTON — The Obama administration will uphold the ban on researching the therapeutic benefits of marijuana, once again rebuffing requests to remove the plant from the list of the drugs, like heroin and LSD, that are considered to be the most addictive and lacking medicinal value.
Medical marijuana patients in Canada will be allowed to grow a limited amount of cannabis for their own use or designate someone to grow it for them, the government says.
The government had been given six months to comply with a federal court ruling that struck down the previous administration's ban on medical patients' growing cannabis.
For those ‘heads old enough to remember the anti-drug campaigns of the mid-’80s—back in a time when Saturday morning cartoons were plagued by propaganda service announcements—it is hard to imagine turning on the television back then without being bombarded by the vision of an egg frying in a pan with some actor suggesting...
Eight days after Oregon’s Williamette Week published a story examining why the federal government would be prosecuting a Native American teenager for possessing “about a gram” of marijuana, the newspaper has reported that prosecutors have agreed to drop the charges.
According to an agreement filed last...