An Accra Fast Track High Court (Criminal Division) has remanded a 46-year-old businessman into the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for allegedly exporting 6,240kgs of cannabis sativa, a narcotic drug worth $20m, to the United Kingdom (UK).

The accused, Kofi Appianin Ennin, was arrested through a collaboration between the UK security agencies and Ghana’s Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) when the drug had successfully left the shores of Ghana for that country.

The businessman is facing a two-count charge each of exportation of narcotic drug without licence from the minister of health and possession of narcotic drug without lawful authority.

Novice cannabis grower suffered 'Breaking Bad' style attack as he tried to sell crop at Bradford home, court hears

A MIDDLE-AGED cannabis grower who was attacked with a knife when he tried to wholesale his crop to pay off mortgage arrears was compared to the main character in the hit TV series Breaking Bad by his barrister at Bradford CrownCourt.

Joseph Pickles was severely injured when he grabbed the blade of the weapon while he was threatened at his home by criminals wanting to steal his crop.

The government's drug experts could not be described as radical libertarians. They are a conservative bunch, assessing drug harms and usually reaching a decision which recommends maintaining or adopting a prohibitionist stance against various narcotics. But even they have now become too liberal for the Home Office.

Cannabis has been used to treat topical wounds such as cuts and burns for millennia. Now, modern research is investigating the science behind cannabis’ ability to treat topical injuries, and is discovering exactly how vast a role the endocannabinoid system plays in the maintenance of healthy skin and wound healing.

Cannabis and wound healing in history

One small cannabis joint a week will not harm your health, scientists have claimed.

Experts gave the advice as they launched the world's first ever guidelines on how to take drugs safely.

Cannabis users are unlikely to encounter long-term health issues if they smoke such a small dose, according to the ground-breaking guide.

While the only way to avoid all harm is to not use drugs, leading drugs experts have launched the app in a bid to reduce harm in those who indulge in illegal substance use.

Coach loads of trots are being bussed into London on Saturday for a union-funded End Austerity Now march on parliament. Jeremy Corbyn will be there, hoping to convince as many as he can to pay their £3 and sign up to vote.

Among those joining Corbyn will be the “Cannabis Campaigners Against Austerity” group, who sound like they have a fun day planned:

Forget this lot, what were the MPs who nominated him smoking?

A huge cannabis haul with an estimated street value of almost £4 million was found among a lorry-load of pizza cheese understood to be destined for Northern Ireland.

The lorry was stopped by Border Force officers at the inward freight controls at Dover’s Eastern Docks.

Approximately 380kgs of cannabis were seized, worth around £3.8 million.

The drugs were found in the early hours of Tuesday in a British-registered lorry and its load of pizza cheese.

The investigation was passed to the National Crime Agency and a 46-year-old man from Ballymoney was detained and then bailed while enquiries continue.

Some believe cannabis could be useful in treating a range of medical and psychological problems

Yesterday, Baroness Molly Meacher asked a question about cannabis in the House of Lords. The question was whether cannabis could be re-scheduled out of schedule one - which determines that it has no medicinal value - to schedule two or three, which would allow doctors to prescribe it and researchers to use it more easily in studies and clinical trials.

The government behaved exactly as expected.  The most generous interpretation is that its spokesman, Lord Bates, was misinformed. His first response to Lady Meacher's question was to parrot the Home Office's usual line on cannabis about it being a harmful drug etc etc.

The bewildering humming sounds resembling jackhammer’s fill the free space between my brain and the inside of the MRI machine.

Lying motionless to such a degree that I focus on my lungs retracting and expanding, ensuring my slight movements will not alter the instruments outcomes.

A million dollar state-of-the-art machine braking down boundaries, allowing the human brain to be observed with the patient unharmed, let alone inebriated on cannabis.

The rumour, and the truth