The first round of France’s Socialist party primary has yielded a surprise victory for the country’s cannabis enthusiasts.
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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.
The German parliament has voted to allow consumption of the drug for medical purposes. The issue had been a point of heated discussion in the country for a long time.
How often do you come across urban, educated 20-somethings taking up farming as a full-time gig? Rarely, correct?
The business of pot started in this country with medical marijuana, and demand for it is taking off.
Marijuana, a divisive issue that normally resurfaces in Europe during election campaigns, has come home to France's hotly-contested presidential race.
Israel’s Council for Higher Education has, for the first time for a major university, given approval to a course on medical cannabis.
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.
Products that contain a cannabis-based ingredient called cannabidiol, or CBD, are to be classed as medicines by the UK medicines regulator from this year.
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.
(CNN) In 2016, more countries legalized the use of marijuana for medicinal or recreational purposes.
A two-year-old boy from west Cork with a rare form of epilepsy has become the first person in the country to be granted a licence allowing him to be treated with cannabis.
More are questioning the effectiveness of the government’s protracted battle against drug cartels; small steps to allow medical marijuana.
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.
Their position on marijuana is hardly the only difference between Canada's prime minister and the president-elect of the United States.
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.
Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill on Tuesday that would allow for the use of medical marijuana, in a further step toward outright legalization in a country long wracked by warring drug cartels.
