TORONTO -- Ontario is looking for federal government guidance on regulating clinics that sell medical marijuana and on how pot should be sold for recreational use once it's legalized.

The federal Liberals promised in this month's throne speech to "legalize, regulate and restrict access to marijuana" to keep it out of the hands of children while also denying criminals the financial profits.

The new government plans to remove possession of small amounts of marijuana from the Criminal Code and create new laws to more severely punish those who provide it to minors or drive while under its influence.

What Christmas party is complete without a few delicious drinks?

Hanukkah has ended but Christmas is rapidly approaching, which means there's still plenty of time to bust out your ugly holiday sweaters. This sartorial tradition first gained popularity in the early 2000s, when a trio of Canucks from Vancouver wrote "Ugly Christmas Sweater Party Book: The Definitive Guide to Getting Your Ugly On" to dispense advice on how to throw a spectacularly ugly Christmas sweater party for you and your friends. Since then, every December people gather together at office parties, happy hours, or festive home gatherings to proudly show off their tacky tops. 

Well, we made it another year in the legal cannabis sector. Companies imploding, heads rolling, you had to have strong conviction to stay in this sector as an individual investor, but you also had to have a sense of humor. Sometimes it seemed like open mic night at the comedy club … you know, not always very funny. As the year ends and we think back about the lows and highs, we are still scratching our heads about the groaners we had to endure while sitting in the audience.

Mary Jane is getting a makeover.

As marijuana use is becoming more accepted across the country - it’s now legal in some form or decriminalized in 27 states and the District of Columbia - cannabis couture is burning bright.

The pot leaf t-shirts, gaudy glass pipes and candy-colored hemp purses associated with college stoners are being stubbed out in favor of diamond necklaces, haute humidors and state-of-the-art vaporizers for the sophisticated toker.

Colorado’s world-renowned venture into commercialized marijuana has failed to deliver what voters were promised: an industry regulated like alcohol.

In 2016, the Colorado Legislature and Gov. John Hickenlooper should try to give voters what they were promised.

Aims

To assess the associations between types of cannabis control policies at country level and prevalence of adolescent cannabis use.

Conclusions

Cannabis liberalization with depenalization and partial prohibition policies was associated with higher levels of regular cannabis use among adolescents. The correlations were heterogeneous between genders and between short- and long-terms.

The new prime minister of Canada, who campaigned on legalizing marijuana, said Thursday that he wants the country to take the time it needs to get the details right and that it’s important for the government make its cannabis policy decisions for the right reasons.

Ending prohibition “was never about a money maker. It was always about public health, public safety,” said Justin Trudeau, who was sworn in as the head of Canada’s federal government last month.

Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry on December 9, 2015 sent an explosive report to parliament, the result of an investigation into several incidents, including the blood-stained Coral Gardens affair, for which she has recommended reparations and apology by the Jamaican State to Rastafarians. The Jamaica Observer presents part four of an edited version of the report:

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How quickly internet videos become cult classics in this viral cyber world. It’s just a matter of hours. So it has proved with an attempt by the NSW government to use cute humour to woo youth away from marijuana, the possession of which remains illegal in Australia.

The three-video campaign, titled “You’re worse on weed”, has so far backfired, as measured by the response on social media, which is where many among the target audience dwell. It trended impressively on Twitter for unintended reasons.