Vancouver police say a marijuana plant discovered growing in a city traffic circle was legal, unless someone had been watering it.

"The alleged marijuana plant growing in the traffic circle at West 19th Avenue and Ontario Street has been removed for analysis and has been determined to likely be a male cannabis plant and therefore not capable of producing THC, rendering the plant legal hemp," Sgt. Randy Fincham said in an email statement.

But if someone was watering the plant, Finchan said in the email, it would have been violating the city’s current stage 4 water restriction which forbids all forms of residential lawn or garden watering.

Following up on tips from the Buffalo Lake Metis Settlement community, RCMP executed a search warrant and discovered a little more than one kilogram of marijuana and 43 hundred in cash.

This is nothing out of the ordinary, however during the search they spotted a vehicle with about 40 grams of pot visible in the front seat. According to Boyle RCMP Constable Matt LaPointe, that lead to another warrant, and that search revealed something far out of the ordinary.

In the past two months, police have seized two cars from an Anchorage marijuana delivery service. The owners said they’ve been left in the dark about when -- or even if -- their property will be returned.

Experts say current search and seizure laws allow law enforcement to take and hold the property, though they contend the Alaska Legislature needs to rethink the laws in terms of a ballot initiative that legalized recreational marijuana in Alaska.

Michael Crites, who owns Absolutely Chronic Delivery Company along with his wife, said two Anchorage Police Department stings in recent months resulted in the loss of two cars tied to the business.

MORRIS – An attempt to re-vote on the medical marijuana dispensary coming to Morris failed at Monday’s Morris City Council meeting, .

Third Ward Alderman Don Matteson requested the council reconsider the July 6 vote regarding a conditional use permit granted to Greenhouse Group LLC to operate a medical marijuana dispensary at 2400 W. Route 6. Second Ward Alderman Doug Hayse tried to second the motion.

Brno, July 20 (CTK) - Customs officers uncovered a Vietnamese gang dealing in marihuana in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany, seizing 45 kilogrammes of the drug in a raid held last Tuesday alone, Jiri Bartak, spokesman for the Czech Customs Administration, told journalists yesterday.
If convicted, the four main masterminds of the crime will face up to 18 years in prison, Bartak said.
The 45 kilogrammes of the drug were prepared for shipment abroad, he added.
In connection with the case, the fifth man is being prosecuted in Slovakia. The Czech Republic has asked for his extradition.
The customs officers uncovered three cannabis labs in Brno. Along with 45 kilogrammes of marihuana, worth roughly 4.5 million crowns, they also seized 420 cannabis plants.

The Monmouth University Poll released Monday did not hold any good news for a certain New Jersey governor. Chris Christie finished 14thamong candidates for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. He was favored by just 1 percent of potential Iowa caucus-goers.

The cut-off line for the big Fox News debate Aug. 6 is the top 10. This poll couldn't have come at a worse time for Christie.

But Christie did catch a break last week. The media largely ignored his big speech on criminal justice reform.

GUELPH — Provided he gets the signatures required for the nomination, Kornelis Klevering plans on running in this fall's federal election under the banner of the Marijuana party.

This will be a third attempt for Klevering, having also run in the 2008 and 2011 general elections.

Reached for an interview at the Guelph Lawn Bowling Club on Gordon Street Wednesday afternoon, Klevering said he felt the need to throw his hat into the ring once again — there are still a number of issues that need to come forward, he said.

As the name of the party suggests, the legalization of marijuana will be a main issue for Klevering.

"How can the cannabis and marijuana party not jump into a federal election when the issue's going to be about legalizing marijuana?" he said.

The Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Home Affairs, Baroness Hamwee, argues that the Government missed an opportunity to reclassify cannabis for medical purposes as part of the Psychoactive Substances Bill.

It’s quite usual for Bills to attract amendments which are wide of the Government’s intentions.  In the Lords we have been dealing with the Psychoactive Substances Bill, which imposes a blanket ban on all “legal highs” (or attempts to do so – history does not show that prohibition works, rather that it pushes the market underground and towards sometimes more harmful substances), and the Liberal Democrats saw the Bill as an opportunity to raise the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — After sitting untouched in an unsupportive House committee, state lawmakers are hoping a bill which would legalize medical marijuana in Pennsylvania can gain new life thanks to a bipartisan group of representatives.

GOLDEN — Jefferson County staff will begin to draft ordinances to allow marijuana testing facilities, but ban all other aspects of the retail marijuana industry, including sales, manufacturing and cultivation facilities.

The ordinances will pertain only to the unincorporated areas of the county, which have not yet allowed any retail marijuana businesses to operate thanks to a moratorium that was put in place in 2013 and extended last year. The moratorium expires Jan. 1, 2016.