The Californian move sent shares in several Canadian cannabis firms soaring this week, including Aurora. In July, Canada will become the second country to legalise recreational marijuana, following Uruguay. Meanwhile, the Australian government said on Thursday it planned to become the fourth country ...

US President Donald Trump's top law enforcement official plans to end an Obama-era policy that shielded legal marijuana from federal prosecution. ... The Cole memo allowed states to legalise marijuana, and led to a blooming multi-billion dollar industry. ... Canadian cannabis grower heads to Europe ...

Holland's famous “cannabis cafes” are not strictly legal – authorities simply tolerate unlawful acts taking place inside. Portugal is arguably the EU country that has come closest to legalising cannabis. In 2000, all illicit drugs were decriminalised in an attempt to get to grips with a national heroin crisis. People ...

And federal law controls immigration. ... He cites the lack of federal resources to go after marijuana cases and says federal prosecutors in California tend to be more liberal than in other parts of the country. .... More: 'Fire and Fury' in Europe: 'Everyone at the school gate was talking about it this morning'.

China has long been one of the biggest markets for ivory, and a major contributor to the 30,000 African elephants that are killed each year to get their tusks. But that could be set to come to an end. From the beginning of 2018, Chinese law bans all trade in both ivory and ivory products. Announced last year ...

Cannabis is partially legal in most US states; Canada will follow soon; Germany, France and Italy are all reviewing policy. The data is in on Portugal's policy of decriminalising all drugs in 2001 — it now has the lowest drugs mortality rate in western Europe. Britain has one of the highest: our heroin problem ...

New Brunswick's economic development agency held a media briefing Wednesday to discuss growth plans for cannabis industries in the province. The provincial government has been working with Opportunities NB since the federal government announced it would pursue the legalization of marijuana to ...