NAIROBI: A children's rights body has sued police officers for allegedly stripping and posting nude photographs of a female student in Kirinyaga County. The 18-year-old Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (KCSE) candidate was among 45 students that were arrested on August 5, in a Nairobi-bound bus and remanded at Sagana Police Patrol Base as having been intoxicated and engaging in sexual activities in a public vehicle. The disturbing pictures of the girl semi-nude as police searched for drugs hidden on her private parts were circulated widely on social media, prompting a backlash against the officers.

A group of Santa Ana police officers are now going to have a tougher time proving to investigators that they are not the corrupt scum the entire nation now believes them to be.

On Wednesday, an Orange County Superior Court judge decided that a surveillance video from the Sky High medical marijuana dispensary, which captured a number of police officers eating pot edibles and poking fun at a disabled patient during a raid, does not violate California’s eavesdropping law and should be allowed into evidence. 

SAN FRANCISCO — The federal government’s decision to try to seize the property of a large medical marijuana dispensary cannot be second-guessed by a court, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday as it rejected a lawsuit by a California city that wants to keep the dispensary open.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said prosecutors have discretion to bring the type of civil forfeiture action they are pursuing against Harborside Health Center in Oakland, and a separate procedure exists to challenge those decisions.

The court affirmed a lower court ruling dismissing the city’s lawsuit against the attorney general and U.S. attorney for Northern California.

Howard County police want to raise awareness about the potentially hazardous use of a concentrated form of marijuana known as "dabbing."

Police said using the drug in this form creates a dangerously intense high, and  manufacturing the drug can cause serious burns and explosions.

The dabbing process can raise marijuana's potency from the standard street level of 15 percent to 80 percent or more, police said. In dabbing, users inhale vapor from "dabs" of waxy or solid marijuana concentrate, creating an intense high from a single inhalation.

Dabbing can cause numerous negative side effects, including a rapid heartbeat, blackouts, feeling like something is crawling under the skin, loss of consciousness and psychotic symptoms, including paranoia and hallucinations.

This November, Ohio will vote on whether to become the biggest state to fully legalize marijuana. But the measure is very different from what's come out of other legal pot states — and not in a good way, according to drug policy experts and legalization advocates.

Ohio is already an unexpected candidate for full legalization compared with the four legal pot states. It isn't especially progressive like Colorado, Oregon, and Washington state, or libertarian like Alaska. It doesn't even have medical marijuana yet, although it was one of the states to decriminalize pot back in the 1970s.

Actors have spoken out on social networks about the Supreme Court judgment on drug possession, held on Thursday

Famous and anonymous, all in favor of the decriminalization of personal marijuana use, manifested by social networks to pressure the Supreme Court to decide favorably for drug possession for personal use.

Gregorio Duvivier launched a campaign on Instagram asking their fans to use the hashtag #DescriminalizaSTF and won the support of other famous advocates for the cause, like Caio Blat. The actor posted a picture on her profile on the social network that showed a poster with the following sentence: "Use is not a crime, neither is planting it."

The cannabis industry’s growing pains are causing unease for some stakeholders, even as the newly minted Alaska Marijuana Control Board was able to favorably change certain draft regulations.

The Alaska Marijuana Control Board decided on several changes to the draft regulations for the budding cannabis industry during its second meeting Aug. 10-11. The board set a license fee of $5,000, left an open window for Outside investment dollars, liberalized key cannabis business zoning requirements, removed a requirement for license holders to list their family members’ information on license applications and estimated the number of licenses for cannabis businesses.

After 50 years of a failed war against drugs we finally have an opportunity to introduce a rational approach to one of the world's most intractable problems - the illegal drugs trade which is financing terrorism and international crime.

The United Nations will have a Special Session on global drug policy next April and will begin discussions next month in New York. Our Guidance on Interpreting the Drug Conventions, published today, sets out an entirely new vision for global drug policy. The first step is to abandon the hopeless objective of creating a drug free world. Human beings have always taken mood altering drugs, and always will. How many of us can honestly say we never take alcohol, tobacco, coffee, chocolate or tea?

America is enamored with marijuana. The still federally-illegal substance, which has been given voter-approval by four states, is quickly gaining support from more-conservative audiences, and is even bound to find its way into the 2016 presidential election as Ohio, an important swing state, is set to test the waters this Fall.

In the US, marijuana marketing is quietly moving into the mainstream and a new, legal industry is challenging preconceptions about the target market, as Mark Lowe, co-founder of Third City, finds out.

Weed is becoming legit. Medical marijuana is now legal in 23 US states plus Washington DC, and full legalisation is slated to be on seven more state ballots for the 2016 elections. Despite strong opposition, not least from presidential candidate Chris Christie, and legitimate mental health concerns, changing social attitudes suggest that gradual decriminalisation is trending across the developed world. In the US, even most Republican voters don’t think state-level legalisation should be rolled back.