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The online activist organization Anonymous has begun Phase 1 of OpCannabis, its effort to educate the public and work on behalf of cannabis legalization worldwide. In announcing OpCannabis, which officially launches on April 20, Anonymous released the following statement: Dear Citizens of the...

A provider of free online auto insurance quotes says it has conducted a study that concludes marijuana uses are safer drivers. Manhattan-based 4AutoInsuranceQuote.org says its study “seeks to dispel the thought that ‘driving while stoned’ is dangerous.” “What law enforcement agencies and...

Spain remains at the center of Europe’s economic storm. Unemployment is rising. So are the interest rates the country pays on its debt. And another round of austerity measures has unions warning of real social unrest. Spain’s debt problem isn’t just national. There are thousands of small Spanish...

Trying to convey the message that marijuana is safer than alcohol, proponents of a ballot initiative to legalize the recreational use of pot in Colorado unveiled their first billboard Thursday. The billboard, located at 1660 Federal Boulevard and directly across from Sports Authority Field at...

As some of you prepare to add another chapter to the stoner diaries on April 20, you might want to consider celebrating cannabis by consuming it during a secret dinner in Downtown Los Angeles. Chef Laurent Quenioux and Executive Chef Thi Tran of Starry Kitchen are teaming up yet again to bring...

Faced with legal threats from Uncle Sam, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gutted its innovative, revenue-generating medical marijuana permitting program that allowed cooperatives to grow up to 99 plants. “The mistake was made when we pushed the envelope,” said Supervisor...

Target 7 has learned that the city paid a local woman thousands of dollars for her medical marijuana after police officers ruined her crop. Medical marijuana user Toni Armijo is smoking mad after police came to her house in August 2010. She was feeling suicidal, so someone called Albuquerque...

The “Walmart of Weed” is coming to Washington. WeGrow, a national franchise, is set to open its first store in the D.C. area this March, according to its local franchisee, Alex Wong. Wong said he has leased space at 1522 Rhode Island Ave., NW, and will offer a full array of products to medical...

When Pompton Lakes police seized Darren Richardson’s car on a rainy September afternoon, they told him it was headed for an impound lot. When they returned it three weeks later, he says, the 2004 BMW belonged in a junk yard. The instrument cluster and leather dashboard were gone. The...

The Basque Parliament will approve a law bill in the first few months of 2012 on drug addiction, which will regulate "the growing, sale and consumption of cannabis". This is according to the second in command at the region's health authority, Jesus Maria Fernandez, who was quoted by the EFE...

Sacramento County supervisors said they wanted to make it unambiguous that they won't permit medical marijuana dispensaries. So board members passed a county zoning amendment that fails to include the words "medical" or "marijuana" or "dispensaries." Instead, supervisors are seeking to bring...

Longshot GOP presidential candidate Gary Johnson attacked frontrunner Newt Gingrich for supporting the death penalty for marijuana smugglers even though he has admitted to smoking the drug himself during graduate school. Gingrich "proposed the death penalty for marijuana -- for possession of...

Medical marijuana users are accustomed to the munchies sending them on a hunt for food. Now they have a place where giving their food away can score them some pot. For the second year in a row, one California medical marijuana dispensary is doing its part to feed the hungry by offering their...

Arrests for misdemeanor marijuana possession have fallen 13 percent in New York City since September, when the police department relaxed its enforcement policy, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. New York City police made 1,190 fewer marijuana arrests since Commissioner Raymond Kelly's...

Marijuana could soon be legalised in Copenhagen, after the city voted overwhelmingly in favour of a scheme that would see the drug sold through a network of state-run shops and cafes. The scheme, if approved by the Danish parliament at the start of next year, could make the city the first to...