COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Supporters spent more than $21 million on a losing fall campaign to legalize marijuana in Ohio for personal and medical use, campaign finance reports filed Friday show.

Most of the nearly $12 million ResponsibleOhio raised from July to October came from 10 companies or organizations listed under corporate names, according to the figures reported to the Secretary of State's office. About 250 people gave individual contributions during the period. Their contributions of $2 to $200 totaled less than $8,000.

When her legs ache, this Mexican grandmother rubs them with marijuana-infused alcohol. She is well aware the homemade remedy defies the country's cannabis ban, but her family has used the concoction to treat ailments since she was a child, handing it down the generations.

"I really have a lot of faith in it," said the slender 53-year-old, a housewife and amateur dancer who spoke to AFP about her cannabis use on condition of strict anonymity.

"When I'm very tired, I spread it on my legs, feet and body. It's really good. I can go without salt but not without marijuana with alcohol. My grandmother used it," she said, holding a plastic bottle filled with the leaves and liquid.

As the nonsense that underpinned the Drug War becomes increasingly apparent, and drug law reform gathers momentum, there is a need to recognise the subtle language towards a drug reform model that could result in Prohibition 2.0 – an approach that fails to fundamentally address the fallacies of a prohibition.

Here are some common statements which may appear to support a reform agenda, but seriously risk producing new form of state control, coercive treatment and punishment for people using the wrong drugs.

The United States government banned the cultivation of hemp in 1957 in an effort to crack down on marijuana use, but the drug isn't the only thing for which the plant is used. In fact, it's valued as a food source and in the manufacture of textiles, prompting many states to begin legalizing hemp in recent years. Delaware joined this roster in 2013, legalizing weed for medical purposes.

The following state officials have played crucial roles in the effort to legalize industrial hemp cultivation in the state.

Nelson Police will continue to take enforcement action if they find businesses working outside guidelines set out by the courts.

Several cannabis dispensaries in Nanaimo were recently raided by RCMP, causing residents of Nelson — widely referred to as Canada’s “pot capital" — to wonder if similar action may be taken here on the road to legalization.

With new dispensaries popping up all the time, and a promise of cannabis legalization from Justin Trudeau, there is a lot of confusion surrounding legally accessible cannabis.

What these new laws will entail, how they will be enforced and to what level is currently unknown.

However, both operators and law enforcement have their ideas about how the process will evolve over the next year.

ST JAMES, Jamaica – The narcotics police seized more than 1,000 pounds of ganja during operations in St James last Thursday and Friday.

The police say the ganja is worth more than J$5 million.

According to police reports, on Thursday a Toyota Corolla motor car was intercepted on the Liliput main road in the parish. The motor vehicle was searched and nine knitted bags containing compressed ganja weighing about 365.5 pounds were reportedly found.

The driver of the motor vehicle was arrested.

Then, investigations led the police to premises on Willow Drive in Pitfour, where a house was searched and 18 knitted bags containing ganja were also reportedly found.

A full year has passed since Florida let medicinal marijuana slip through the cracks by a mere 2%. Of course you know that hasn’t kept anyone down, especially not John Morgan and United for Care, the most well-known marijuana reform initiative in the state of Florida which is fighting for legalized medical marijuana to be offered to people who live with qualifying debilitating conditions.

Last year this ballot initiative was thrown through all sorts of hoops in order to get to the ballot boxes in November – this year it appears that they’ve managed to fix up their language to suite everyone’s concerns from the previous year. Now the hardest part is upon us – gathering petitions and fundraising to pay signature gatherers.

British Columbia may be known for its bud now, but Canada has had a complicated relationship with marijuana over the years. A synopsis:

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Emily Murphy, an iconic early feminist and Canada's first female judge, published "The Black Candle," a 400-page screed against drug use and the threat of the "black and yellow races." In the book, Murphy quotes a police chief saying that pot smokers "become raving maniacs and are liable to kill or indulge in any form of violence to other persons, using the most savage methods of cruelty without, as said before, any sense of moral responsibility."

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The MILegalize Board of Directors is announcing a short-term extension of its 2015 petitioning campaign. All petitioners are encouraged to turn in all petitions by Dec. 21st, and to continue petitioning beyond Dec. 21st until further notice from the campaign. MILegalize is still paying petitioners for signatures collected beyond December 21st under current payment arrangements. The campaign directs petitioners to immediately contact the campaign to send in carefully completed, signed and dated petitions to the Lansing headquarters, and urges supporters not to resign the petition a second time.