While it is a far cry from rolling back prohibition altogether, the legalization wave appears to be crashing upon the beaches of the British Isles this summer. As of July 31, 2015, the branded “Charlotte’s Web” CBD oil went on sale in England after it was legalized last month.

A cannabis user who did not give up drugs while on a suspended jail term told a judge it was because he had nightmares – and she told him he should be having nightmares about her jailing him.

Burnley Crown Court had been told how Benjamin Myers (32) had earlier been given the non-custodial sentence after being convicted of possessing cannabis with intent to supply. He had been warned by Judge Beverley Lunt not to re-offend, but months later was caught possessing the drug.

Pro-cannabis campaigners are encouraging people in Surrey to come and debate the drug with them.

The group Surrey Cannabis Club want personal use of cannabis to be decriminalised and the medical use of the drug to be legalised.

Today they are hosting what they are calling a 'peaceful protestival' in Stoke Park from 1pm - 5pm.

They are encouraging members of the community to come down and give their views, and discuss the pros and cons of ending the prohibition of cannabis.

In a statement, the group said:

AN "UNLUCKY" man who had to call the fire brigade after setting fire to his carpet ended up in court after they also discovered he was growing cannabis at his Kidderminster home.

But Simeon O'Mealy was not growing the class B drug for smoking or selling - he blends the leaves into a juice for drinking.

Mark Soper, prosecuting, said: "He's a bit of an unlucky man really. He set fire to the carpet in his bathroom by a disregarded cigarette end and called the fire brigade. They came and extinguished the fire and noticed a tent which contained the plants."

In mitigation, John Rogers although the 55-year-old had been caught doing something that was illegal in this country, in his home region, the Caribbean, growing cannabis to make juices was a common practice.

A cancer advice website in the US, The National Cancer Institute, has featured a page offering information surrounding how cannabis and cannabinoids could potentially treat cancer.

The page has been compiled by an information body called Physician Data Query (PDQ), which is the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) comprehensive cancer information database.

Synthetic marijuana, also referred to as "replacement cannabis," "K2," and "Spice," is a lab-produced mind-altering drug that aims to mimic the effects of marijuana, but is known to have unpredictable and sometimes dangerous effects, despite its marketing as a safe, legal alternative to marijuana.

New York City's police commissioner, William Bratton, recently said that the drug, which he referred to as "weaponized marijuana" is of "great and growing concern" to the city's police force, which has seen a spike in hospitalizations from the drug.

IT IS the first time I’ve been sent cannabis through the post but I’m unfazed – I’m probably not doing anything illegal.

My delivery is a MediPen. It’s an e-cigarette made using a strain of marijuana high in cannabidiol (CBD), the compound thought to give cannabis its purported medical benefits, and low in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the one that gets you high.

It’s not the first low THC e-cigarette in the UK – a similar device called KanaVape has been on sale since last year – but MediPen is the first designed to give a high dose of CBD. It contains hemp oil imbued with 20 per cent CBD compared with KanaVape’s 5 per cent.

A group of MPs and Peers says legal cannabis markets should be tested and drug use decriminalised as part of a radical new approach to drug use.

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform wants an overhaul in global narcotics policy.

It says the "war on drugs" and "blanket prohibition" have failed.

The group also believes certain human rights laws could be used to claim that those who possess cannabis should not be treated as criminals.

Government body says vaping can make ‘significant contribution to endgame of tobacco’ and raises concerns about length of licensing process

Vaping is safer than smoking and could lead to the demise of the traditional cigarette, Public Health England (PHE) has said in the first official recognition that e-cigarettes are less damaging to health than smoking tobacco.

The health body concluded that, on “the best estimate so far”, e-cigarettes are about 95% less harmful than tobacco cigarettes and could one day be dispensed as a licensed medicine in an alternative to anti-smoking products such as patches.