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A spokesman says the television personality, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was detained by customs after leaving prescription cannabis powder in his luggage.

European politicians are mulling plans to expand medical cannabis options, but until the talk becomes reality it’s still slim pickings for Europeans in need.

The group behind one of two efforts to legalize MMJ won more time to circulate petitions to put its proposal on the November ballot.

Florida opens its first (limited) dispensary, Germany and Italy consider MMJ expansion, and a Maryland lawmaker denies a cannabis conflict of interest.

N.A. Poe — iconoclast, comedian, media artist, and cannabis activist — has been seemingly everywhere during this week’s Democratic National Convention.

Hillary Clinton’s VP pick has strong mainstream establishment credentials. For the cannabis-conscious voter, though, Kaine can be described in one word: unimpressive.

Less than two weeks after L.A. County supervisors agreed to move forward with a 10 percent tax on cannabis businesses in order to fund homeless services, the proposal’s author wants to shelve the plan.

The Carol Jenkins Barnett Family Trust donated $800,000 in mid-July to a group campaigning to kill Florida’s proposed medical cannabis amendment.

Trulieve, the approved organization in northwest Florida, is set to open a dispensary in Tallahassee on Tuesday, one week after being given dispensing authorization by Florida’s health department.

On the eve of the Democratic National Convention’s opening, America’s cannabis caucus held a fundraiser that put the party on notice: The era of legalization and legitimacy has arrived.