The Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London issued a press release on 27th November claiming that its latest study shows cannabis causes damage to the corpus callosum.  This was widely reported across the world and many publications extended what was already an inaccurate claim into saying that this “damage” was a cause of psychosis.

They're normally the guys locking people up for marijuana possession, but a group of current and former law enforcement officers will meet in Naples to push for people's right to get high. 

Not all law enforcement officers are on board, however. Legalizing marijuana, it's a hot-button issue in Florida.

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is pushing for the change to save taxpayer dollars and valuable resources.

"Sixty-thousand people get arrested every year for marijuana possession. That's a waste of law-enforcement resources," said Ray Strack of LEAP.

The group meets Thursday in Naples. The Florida Sheriff's Association is not on board with the plan or Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Prummel.

Rocky Mountain Organic MedicineLast month U.S. Postal Service officials in Portland, Oregon, announced that periodicals containing marijuana ads are "nonmailable." That came as a surprise to Oregon newspaper publishers, many of whom depend on the mail to deliver part of their print runs and some of whom sell space to cannabusinesses, which are legal under Oregon law. While publishers knew those businesses are still considered criminal enterprises under federal law, it never occurred to them that a single dispensary ad could make an entire issue untouchable by the USPS.

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Despite having been a part of the so-called "War on Drugs" for decades as a federal customs agent, Ray Strack is now pushing for the legalization of marijuana, hoping people vote in favor of a possible medical marijuana measure on the November ballot in Florida. 

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SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) --

Santa Ana police detectives with the Medical Marijuana Dispensary Task Force seized almost $5.7 million worth of marijuana from an illegal grow.

On Wednesday, authorities served a search warrant in the city at a suspected illegal marijuana grow in the 400 block of North Sullivan Street. The location was a large, warehouse-type of building in an industrial area.

Authorities received a tip about illegal activity in the warehouse from a concerned citizen.

After serving the search warrant, task force officers found a large, highly sophisticated marijuana grow inside the location. No one was found inside, police said.

Some cannabis users caught by police may not be prosecuted and will receive an on-the-spot recorded warning instead.

Police Scotland will introduce the system in January to deal with low-level crimes.

At the moment, such crimes are normally reported by police to prosecutors and do not end up in court.

The majority of those caught with cannabis, and perpetrators of serious crime, would be dealt with as before.

The recorded police warning is a revision of the formal adult warning scheme and would be issued by individual officers.

Officers will determine if a warning is appropriate, or if another course of action such as a fixed-penalty notice should be issued.

Last month we held Scottish Drugs Forum's annual general meeting and as part of the event we asked attenders, who represented a whole spectrum of stakeholders in the drugs field, whether there should be a debate on decriminalisation.

The overwhelming majority of that group agreed that there should. Recent procedural changes in Scottish policing are welcome and can help kickstart that debate.

This is part of a wider overhaul of how wider petty offending is handled by the police and, of course, will only affect the least serious incidents.

We are at a historic crossroads in terms of enforcement and the legislative framework around drugs. The need for open informed discussion and a clear vision is obvious.

Doctors and soldiers are fighting for medical marijuana for post-traumatic stress

The State of Mississippi recently announced that MPP, arguably the nation’s largest organization focused on ending marijuana prohibition, would not be granted non-profit status and would not be allowed to raise funds in the state. Their reasoning? Because Rob Kampia, MPP’s Executive Director, was arrested and convicted of growing marijuana while he was in college 26 years ago. “After I was convicted for growing my own marijuana while in college, I co-founded MPP in order to repeal marijuana prohibition in all 50 states — something we can no longer do in Mississippi. This is a ‘circular double screw'” said Kampia.