IMUS, Cavite — Police and military officers found suspected cannabis (marijuana) trees in a pineapple plantation during an operation early Thursday morning in a mountainous village in Silang, this province.

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Barrister Charles Richardson's conditional discharge for cannabis possession has been replaced with a conviction and fine apparently at his own request.

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Marijuana activist Barry Cooper turned himself in to authorities Friday morning … and he did it with an expected showman’s flare.

I was notified of his plans last night, but didn’t think he’d actually go this far.

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WASHINGTON -- Hemp needed a hero. The gangly plant, once a favorite of military ropemakers, couldn't catch a break.

Even as legalized medical marijuana has become more commonplace, the industrial hemp plant -- with its minuscule levels of the chemical that gives marijuana its kick -- has remained illegal to cultivate in the United States.

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A request by NORML under the Official Information Act has revealed police had a secret meeting with Internal Affairs departmental heads, and asked them to try to get marijuana law reform magazine Norml News completely banned.

Three issues of Norml News were referred to the censors on 7 May (no decision has been made yet) after massive raids on indoor gardening stores across the country, code named Operation Lime.

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