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MCALLEN, Texas — Authorities in this border city are warning travelers about a series of ointments that have peyote and marijuana as their main ingredients. The drugs are being seized at border entry points from individuals who may not have been aware that they were smuggling actual drugs.

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), an armed Islamist guerrilla group, has stolen and burned hundreds of marijuana crops in a show of solidarity to President Rodrigo Duterte and a goodwill gesture to show their commitment to abiding by an ongoing peace accord.

An anti-marijuana legalization group founded by The Atlantic senior editor David Frum and former Rep. Patrick Kennedy is gearing up to do battle this November in five states that are considering legalizing the drug for recreational use.

Marijuana farmers will now be subject to the state’s stringent agricultural water use laws.

A Dutch researcher has announced plans to study 30 former NFL players to discover if cannabis could be a suitable medical treatment for sports injuries.

With 39 million people, and a booming 20-year-old medical marijuana trade, California politicians will soon have $1 billion a year in extra cash to spend — if the new recreational marijuana initiative passes on the November ballot.

Tennessee Titans linebacker Derrick Morgan wants the NFL to spend more time researching medicinal marijuana and the potential health benefits it could provide players.

After years of repeated fines and suspensions drug and testing issues, former Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams has announced a role working for the world’s first “cannabis-friendly gym.”

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has revealed that he uses topical medical marijuana wax to ease his arthritis pain.

President Barack Obama joked that people shouldn’t believe everything they read on the internet after student at a town hall meeting asked him about smoking weed.

SAN BERNARDINO — Democratic presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump “will not be the next president of the United States” on Tuesday evening as he riled up thousands of his fans who had gathered both inside and outside the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino.

Actor and marijuana activist Tommy Chong took to social media to vent after he was apparently disinvited from introducing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at a rally in Los Angeles on Monday.

Voters in California will face a tidal wave of ballot measures in the November general election, on issues from the death penalty and condoms to marijuana and plastic bags.

Eugene Monroe is putting his money where his mouth isn’t.

SANTA MONICA, California — During an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, former Mexican president Vicente Fox suggested drug trafficking at the southern border isn’t caused by Mexico but by drug consumption in the United States.

Law enforcement authorities arrested a member of the Sen. John McCain campaign team and her live-in boyfriend on Tuesday as a search of their home revealed drugs and drug paraphernalia in the same living space as small children.

Three marijuana growing operations have been discovered near the houses where a family of 8 was murdered “execution style” in rural Ohio. While the drug trafficking has not been publicly singled out as a motive by authorities nor have they

Attendees of the annual 4/20 pot celebration left behind almost 15,000 pounds of trash at the Golden Gate Park.

April 20 is celebrated worldwide as “4/20 Day,” a celebration of marijuana that dates back to a high school tradition among Marin County teenagers to smoke pot at 4:20 p.m.

Three Santa Ana police officers were charged with petty theft on Monday, stemming from a raid they conducted at Sky High Holistic medical marijuana shop last year, where they allegedly snacked on cookies and protein bars.

(AFP) – France and Canada have the highest percentage of 15-year-old pot smokers among 42 well-off nations surveyed by the World Health Organization, the UN agency said in a report Tuesday. When it comes to policing marijuana, France is far

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is pushing back against the planned bipartisan rollback of jail sentencing that will put violent drug offenders back out on the streets.

“Roseanne’s Joint” — that’s the name of a new Santa Ana, California marijuana dispensary owned by ‘90s-era television star and comedian Roseanne Barr, set to open this spring.

Actor and pot activist Tommy Chong has endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders, who supports the decriminalization of recreational marijuana, over frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.

A Texas border police chief and one of his top officers have been formally arrested in in connection with marijuana that was alleged to have been stolen from the police department’s evidence locker. The drug was allegedly mixed with alcohol to make a homemade remedy for joint pain.

Early Saturday morning, officials with the U.S. Coast Guard spotted and seized a panga boat, leading to the arrest and charging of 13 individuals for smuggling nearly 3,000 pounds of marijuana with intent to distribute, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.

Former Portland Trail Blazer Cliff Robinson claims he’s always been a marijuana proponent, but now takes that advocacy to a new level.

On January 18, Orange Country Register columnist John Phillips suggested Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom may be more moderate than people think. But Phillips barely noted that Newsom is pushing massive new gun controls, the legalization of marijuana, and an increase in the minimum wage.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s ultra-Orthodox health minister will propose a new plan to open up the market for medical marijuana, Ynet reported.

As marijuana legalization in states like Colorado and Washington continues, marijuana farmers in Mexico are starting to see a steep decline in the profits their crops once fetched. Some growers report they’re seeing a decline in income as high as 70 percent, and they blame the popularity of higher quality legal marijuana in the U.S.

Californians must contend with more than 800 laws, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown and taking effect in 2016.

Macy Gray is out with an updated version of “All I Want for Christmas” just in time for the holiday season—but the singer’s Christmas wish list may be too much for Santa to handle.

Law enforcement officials in rural Indiana were in for a shock when they started searching a 148-acre tract of land in Delaware County during a murder investigation. The deceased owner of the property had allegedly been purchasing thousands of pounds of marijuana every year from a Mexican cartel, and a three-day search, begun on November 5, was attempting to uncover the remains of a snitch the owner had buried on his land over a decade ago.

On November 4, Mexico’s Supreme Court made a landmark—and highly controversial—decision, declaring that individuals should have the right to grow and distribute marijuana for their personal use. The ruling applies only to a single cannabis club that filed the suit, but may have initiated a domino effect that will pave the way for eventual marijuana legalization.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) jokingly offered pot brownies to CNBC moderator Carl Quintanilla in the midst of a heated exchange at Wednesday night’s GOP debate in Boulder, Colorado.

Three men were found shot to death Tuesday in the Rail Road Flat area of Calaveras County, California, where they had allegedly been trespassing on a property containing dozens of marijuana plants.