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Two people were arrested after a $7.5 million cannabis seizure, it was revealed yesterday. Detective Superintendent Nicholas Pedro, in charge of the crime division, said: “While we are aware of the legislative agenda towards decriminalisation of can...

Draft legislation for the legalisation of cannabis is to be put out for public consultation, the Attorney-General said last night. Kathy Lynn Simmons unveiled proposals for medical and recreational cannabis use in the Senate last December and the vi...

The threshold for the importation of medical cannabis has rocketed to 2,000 grams a year from an annual limit of just one gram per year. A spokeswoman for the health ministry said the Government was “processing an application for a commercial importe...

Past convictions for possession of small amounts of cannabis could be quashed, a Cabinet minister signalled yesterday. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health who led the House of Assembly budget debate for the Ministry of Legal Affairs, said the policy w...

Cannabis was found in the system of a one-year-old child, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said that the Central Government Laboratory had recorded an increase in the number of positive test results for the d...

Cannabis use, cultivation and sale will be legalised if legislation tabled in May is passed, the Attorney-General said yesterday. Kathy Lynn Simmons told the Senate that the consumption of cannabis at home or in licensed premises would be permitted, ...

A social inquiry report was ordered on a man who cultivated at least 75 cannabis plants in his backyard. Martin Ford, 58, pleaded guilty to the offence in Magistrates’ Court. Police attended Ford’s home in Warwick on July 4 last year after they suspe...

Like nearly all Americans of a certain age, I was told in school that tobacco, alcohol and marijuana are gateway drugs — and that is why marijuana should remain illegal. First of all, even if you accept that these three substances are “gateways” to ...

A British woman caught with more than a kilogram of cannabis resin at the airport admitted possession of more than $139,000 of cannabis resin with intent to supply yesterday. Kirsty Hewitt, 30, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to both charges. Th...

Legislation to draw a legal line between cannabis and hemp has been passed by the House of Assembly. The Misuse of Drugs (Hemp) Amendment Act 2019 amended the Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 to create a distinction between cannabis and hemp to allow for th...

A US couple yesterday appeared in Magistrates’ Court today after cannabis was discovered in their cruise ship cabin. Maria Derenzin, from Passaic, and Ibn Muhammad, from Newark, both New Jersey, admitted importation of the drug into the island on the...

A Warwick man caught with more than $170,000 of cannabis was jailed for two years yesterday. Luri Scott, 25, pleaded guilty to three counts of handling drugs with intent to supply and one charge of possession of drug equipment. Prosecutors had asked ...