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The Federal Court has declined to throw out the case of an Ontario restaurant owner who wants one of his former patrons stripped of his right to smoke medical marijuana. full story
The Federal Court reserved decision Monday whether to throw out the case of an Ontario restaurant owner who wants one of his former patrons stripped of his right to smoke medical marijuana. full story
Online marijuana seed seller Richard Hratch Baghdadlian is facing imprisonment in Canada for five years. full story
Bong water can count as a controlled substance, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a decision that raises the threat of longer sentences for drug smokers who fail to dump the water out of their pipes. full story
The Superior Court judge's decision undermines the city's 4-month-old drive to shut down hundreds of the stores. full story
CANNABIS CULTURE - Pot activist David Malmo-Levine, founder of the Vancouver Herb School, has been slugging it out with Canadian authorities and fighting for plant freedoms in a B.C. courtroom. full story
David Malmo-Levine, one of Canada’s most prominent cannabis activists, will be a sentenced in a Vancouver court after pleading guilty to possessing cannabis, hashish and magic mushrooms for the purposes of trafficking. full story
After two decades as Canada's Prince of Pot, Marc Emery will surrender himself today in B.C. Supreme Court and become the country's first Marijuana Martyr. full story
In a major victory for pot advocates, the California Supreme Court has refused to review a landmark appellate court ruling protecting the right of medical marijuana patients and their caregivers to collectively grow marijuana. full story
The state's interest in banning marijuana outweighs the religious beliefs of an individual that he is entitled to use the drug anywhere, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled today. full story
Charges in one of Canada's largest ever police corruption cases should not have been thrown out even though years would have passed before the case went to trial, Ontario's highest court heard Monday. full story
Canada's Prince of Pot, Marc Emery, has less than a month of freedom remaining before he heads to the US border to be handcuffed and escorted to federal court in Seattle, where he will accept a plea bargain and probable five-year prison sentence for selling marijuana seeds over the Internet. full story
Denver may lower pot ticket prices to $1, the lowest fine for marijuana possession in the United States. full story- Will Foster is currently shackled to a van bench seat along with many other inmates destined for Oklahoma. full story
A New Jersey man with Multiple Sclerosis could face 20 years behind bars for growing a few pot plants. full story- Chris Bennett is a pot activist, cannabis historian, and a longtime contributor to Cannabis Culture and Pot-TV, who has been fighting an ongoing battle with the Canadian government and courts over the religious use of marijuana. full story
Medical marijuana patient Will Foster was sentenced to 93 years and then ordered free by the courts. Now the state of Oklahoma wants him back behind bars. full story
A woman serving a short sentence in a Houston, Texas, jail for possession of marijuana died in custody over the weekend, and officers are not saying how or why. full story- Get ready to get angry. The following video shows a large male cop kicking the shit out of a 15-year-old girl. full story
When undercover detectives busted Jose and Maximo Colon last year for selling cocaine at a seedy club in Queens, there was a glaring problem: The brothers hadn't done anything wrong. full story
A Charleston woman agreed in Kanawha Circuit Court Monday to a judge's suggestion that she have her fallopian tubes tied as part of her probation. full story
Marijuana activist Marc Emery says he plans to drop his fight against extradition to the U.S. and plead guilty to one charge of drug distribution in a Seattle courtroom next month. full story
The lawyer for Canada’s so-called Prince of Pot said Wednesday he’ll appear in a Seattle court this summer to plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana. full story
A judge has agreed to adjourn the extradition hearing for marijuana activist Marc Emery that was scheduled to begin next week. full story
