MEXICO CITY – Mexican health authorities issued Friday the first permit allowing four individuals to grow and use their own marijuana for recreational purposes, following a landmark Supreme Court ruling on limited drug legalization.
Has Canada's war on marijuana worked? "No, it hasn't," said Clive Weighill, chief of the Saskatoon police force, president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and a veteran of August marijuana raids.
In 2001, just 4.1 percent of adults said they used marijuana. That increased to 9.5 percent by 2013. The findings were published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry.
Marijuana advocates are watching a new case this week before Costa Rica’s Supreme Court challenging an anti-drug law that bans growing marijuana here.
After years of cycling through anti-convulsive medications, the family of an 8-year-old girl debilitated by seizures is now desperate to try a marijuana oil that has helped American children in similar conditions.
