Picture the scene: it's been a long day, you're feeling a little wired and have some time to kill. You drop into Dutchie's, a popular chain café, and place your order: "I'll have a skinny Morroccan and a gluten-free hash brownie, please." And you sit down among the business suits and chill...

If that scenario sounds a bit trippy, then think again. It seems that high times lie ahead, and there are signs that industry is ever more hungrily eyeing up the cannabis market in the wake of decriminalisation in the United States. Rap artist-turned-entrepreneur Snoop Dogg announced this week that he is launching a marijuana-based media company, Merry Jane, providing news, information and entertainment about and for the rapidly expanding cannabis industry in the US.

How cannabis spread around the world 

There can be little doubt that, today, cannabis is a major talking point throughout many societies around the world, and legal or not, it is used by individuals in the majority of countries across the globe.

The medical and recreational use of marijuana is nothing new – its history goes back tens of thousands of years. But how did cannabis go from standard plant to a much-used recreational drug? How did it spread around the world and establish itself as the controversial substance it is today? And when did it become banned in much of the world?

Next month parliament (in the UK) will debate cannabis legalisation in the House of Commons will legalising weed change how the drug is viewed by young smokers?

Everyday at least one person on my Snapchat, is guaranteed to post a video, rolling a joint to some trap music. But if cannabis were to become legal in the UK, would people be publicising it all over their social networks. You don’t see people posting snaps smoking cigarettes do you?

While much of the media obsessed over 'pig gate', excerpts from Lord Ashcroft's upcoming book on David Cameron have once again put the spotlight on our Prime Minister's drug law hypocrisy, and his troubling rejection of his past beliefs on the need for reform.

COPS have busted a cannabis farm directly under busy Glasgow train station.

British Transport Police officers swooped on an industrial unit under the railway bridge at Central Station on Monday.

They discovered cannabis plants, worth £15,000, during the search of the premises in Cook Street.

A 57-year-old man was arrested in connection with the find.

Police said a house in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, was later searched and cannabis, worth around £40,000, was found.

Officers also recovered a sum of cash and other items.

The first installment of Lord Ashcroft's unauthorised biography of David Camerongave the British press enough salacious gossip for a year, but in the mad rush to cover the most lurid aspects of his allegations, drugs campaigners claim a more radical aspect of the story has been overlooked.

Demonstrator Colin Davies ripped open a mock paper 'joint' to reveal the gigantic weed plant after bringing it along to the demonstration

A cannabis campaigner displayed a six foot cannabis plant in Piccadilly Gardens in a bid to get the drug legalised for medicinal use.

Hundreds of people gathered in the gardens as protesters openly smoked the drug and spoke about its effects to the public on Saturday afternoon.

During the action one of the organisers, Colin Davies, ripped open a huge mock paper ‘joint’ to reveal the gigantic marijuana plant.

"I would be unsurprised when he leaves office if he doesn’t revert to views he held before," says Blunt

David Cameron dumped deeply held views on the need for drugs reform – forged by a close relative’s addiction – so he could become Tory leader, a senior MP said last night.

As a newly elected MP, Mr Cameron was a passionate campaigner in Parliament for the 40-year-old laws to be reviewed, and claimed the war on drugs had failed.

His strong stand came from having to witness a close relative’s “crippling and life-threatening drug addiction”, a new biography of him by Lord Ashcroft has revealed.

But he carried out a total U-turn to oppose any change when he stood to be the new leader of the Conservative Party in 2005.