If you want to know where the best marijuana in the world is grown, just ask Oliver Stone. The Oscar-winning film director, a long-time user and an outspoken proponent of the drug, has no doubt.

“The best weed in the world is here in California,” he tells me firmly when we talk in a Los Angeles hotel. “I’ve been doing it for 40 years as you know, and there’s better stuff here than in Afghanistan, Vietnam, Jamaica, South Sudan – and I’ve been to all those places. The Facebook generation, if that’s what you call them, are very smart kids and they make good stuff.”

Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb on Tuesday said the cannabis club membership card does not work and will never work.

Speaking to tv programme EenVandaag, the mayor said the cannabis pass just causes more nuisance. He thinks there will be more street dealing of soft drugs once it is introduced throughout the Netherlands on January 1.

Haarlem – The City of Haarlem will introduce a special Hallmark for coffeeshops soon. Mayor Bernt Schneider foresees that this will make the disputed Weedpass fit for the trashcan. According to the Mayor, Haarlem scores a national scoop with the Hallmark.

A member of parliament in Norway is likely to lose his parliamentary seat after admitting to using cannabis.

Labour Party’s Thor Erik Forsberg admitted in a recent interview with the Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad news agency that over the last several years he has used cannabis on a regular basis for medicinal purposes.

Richard A. Posner, a widely respected federal judge, called for the elimination of criminal laws against marijuana in a September 6  lecture at Elmhurst College in Illinois.

Judge Posner, a member of the influential United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, is an intellectual giant who is the most-cited judge in America. His call for legalization is significant because Posner is considered a legal conservative.