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Some of Australia's most high-profile medicinal cannabis advocates have banded together to launch a new campaign for better access to the drug.

How often do you come across urban, educated 20-somethings taking up farming as a full-time gig? Rarely, correct? 

Recreational marijuana is becoming legal in more jurisdictions throughout the US and is being used medically at an even greater rate.

Call it the Diaz Rule. The Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) will discuss Friday on whether or not to remove marijuana from its banned substance list, per the meeting agenda released on its website.

Our brightest stop yet on the long slow road to recreational legalization in Canada! Legal weed is coming to Canada and its shape is becoming clearer through the haze of uncertainty.

Israel’s Council for Higher Education has, for the first time for a major university, given approval to a course on medical cannabis. 

Legal access to cannabis in Spain, where the plant remains in a legal gray zone, is still a ways over the horizon, but medical patients in country are hopeful change is underway.

Over the past six years, Eastern European countries have seen an unprecedented rise in the number of patients treating themselves with homemade cannabis extracts.

Germany is looking primed to become a major producer of medical cannabis since laws were loosened this past summer to allow patients with a doctor's recommendation.

Israel's Military Prosecutor plans to revise its policy on marijuana use, and permit IDF soldiers to smoke weed up to five times, as long as they're off-duty when they do so, Haaretz has learned.

Changes in the United States may be prompting a rethink in Mexico, too—among ordinary people, policymakers and purveyors of pot alike.

Their position on marijuana is hardly the only difference between Canada's prime minister and the president-elect of the United States.

Medicinal cannabis crops on the outskirts of Perth will become a reality in 2017.

Why are so many military veterans reeling with "a sense of anger, hurt, frustration and betrayal?"

Politicians from the European Parliament gathered with a range of patients, activists, campaigners, entrepreneurs and scientists from the European cannabis community to discuss the future of the industry at the inaugural International Conference on Medical Cannabis.

Uruguay was the first country in the world to fully legalize marijuana, making it a global leader in progressive drug policy.

Ireland moved closer to legalising marijuana for medicinal use when the minority government said on Thursday it would not block the first reading of a bill that is backed by all other parties.

Justin Trudeau’s task force to legalize marijuana has completed its report on the issue and said it will be released to the public sometime before Christmas.