Police in Mexico have arrested a gang of Colombians and Mexicans for growing genetically modified pot in three massive greenhouses covering 20,000sq ft.

A statement issued by federal authorities claim the large-scale operation was taking place in the northern state of Jalisco.

Officers raiding the greenhouses found a total of 7,000 'mother plants' of marijuana that had been genetically modified and cloned.

According to investigators, the Colombians claimed they had been contacted by emails offering them jobs in the Mexico.

Without knowing what they were destined for, they ended up at the site in the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zunia.

The crew, which included 22 Colombians and three Mexicans, were said to have paid in dollars.

Earlier this month the State of Colorado rejected a proposal that would have added PTSD to the list of qualifying medical conditions to become a medical marijuana patient in Colorado. In response to the lack of compassion by the State of Colorado, Operation Grow for Vets is planning a rally on August 1st. Below is more information from the Operation Grow for Vets Facebook page, along with a flyer.

COLUMBIA — A Vietnam war veteran and former Commander of the Missouri Veterans of Foreign Wars will be speaking on Monday evening in support of medical marijuana.

Tom Mundell will speak at 7 p.m. in the Columbia Public Library, according to a news release from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

Mundell has met with President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C., to discuss the re-scheduling of marijuana multiple times and the benefits he experienced and observed in connection with marijuana, according to NORML.

The Missouri General Assembly legalized limited use of cannabidiol for the treatment of "intractable epilepsy" in 2014, according to the release. Cannabidiol, a compund in marijuana, has medical effects but doesn't produce a high.

United Kingdom lawmakers may consider a bill that would legalize cannabis for recreational use, after an online petition garnered the support of more than 150,000 people. The petition asks for lawmakers to allow the sale, production and recreational use of marijuana.

Petitions that exceed more than 100,000 signatures require a formal response from the government, and the House of Commons must consider putting the item to debate. Those which receive the required number of signatures are "almost always debated," according to the site. The petition, which was introduced last week, has amassed more than 158,000 signatures. 

Pot politics is heating up on the presidential campaign trail.

The majority of New Hampshire voters, including most independents, favor the legalization of recreational marijuana and decriminalization of pot, according to a new WMUR Granite State Poll from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.

The early voting state is one of the most important for presidential candidates. So marijuana advocates hope the findings will encourage White House hopefuls to embrace their cause. 

It's strange how reports sometimes coincide. County Durham police said they would no longer prosecute growers of cannabis in small quantities for home use and an online petition launched by Aberystwyth University student James Owen has forced MPs to consider a Westminster debate into legalising the drug.

Are we on the path to enlightenment? Or the road to perdition?

In response to Durham’s decision to focus police attention on more serious crime because of budget cuts, West Yorkshire Police confirmed their policy of prosecution remains the same for cultivators of the weed.

Which made me think that landholders in the North might be tempted to divide their acreage into allotments and let them to amateur horticulturists south of their borders.

Those who attended Sandra Bland’s funeral make it clear that they are not going to quietly go away.

“When it’s all complete, the FBI, Texas Rangers, and everybody turns their complete investigation out, you’ll see that factual wise, all the conspiracy theories just don’t work out”, said Waller County Sheriff R. Glenn Smith.

Mathis said he could understand how some people “looking at some of the bad things in our past would jump to the conclusion that this was a murder and not a suicide”.

“These men have no honour and we can not abide by their word”.

Deputy health minister says medical marijuana will be prescribed and supervised like medications classified as narcotic

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman announced Monday that pharmacies will be stocked with medical marijuana to ease the often arduous bureaucratic process faced by patients prescribed the drug.

During an address to the Knesset Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Litzman said the current system of dispensing medical marijuana to patients was unbalanced.

GREENBELT, Md. –  A former letter carrier has been convicted of delivering packages of marijuana from a post office to the home of a conspirator.

A federal jury on Friday convicted 33-year-old Takisha Cole of Washington of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, use of a communications device to facilitate drug trafficking, and bribery.

According to evidence presented at trial, Cole worked as a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in Silver Spring. Prosecutors say the conspirator paid Cole to obtain and deliver packages containing marijuana to him.

Authorities say Cole picked up the packages at the post office and delivered them to the conspirator, even after his address was no longer on her route.

Cole's sentencing is set for Oct. 19.

A 19 year old local tout on Monday left the court in stitches when he said he smoked dagga as a way of enjoying himself.

Tulani Madondo of Mtapa suburb was apprehended by police on patrol while smoking a twist of the drug at a corner near N. Richards wholesale.

"I just smoked mbanje (cannabis) as a way of enjoying myself your worship," Madondo told the court.

Magistrate, Judith Taruvinga convicted Madondo for contravening provisions of the Dangerous Drugs Act before finning him $50. If he fails to pay the sum he will spend 20 days behind bars.

In coming up with the sentence Taruvinga considered that Madondo was a first offender but warned him to desist from enjoying activities with criminal implications.