Derbyshire's police and crime commissioner has said minor cannabis users are not a "priority" for the force.

Alan Charles has said austerity cuts to police budgets had forced Derbyshire police to reassess its priorities.

In an interview with the Guardian, Mr Charles said: "The severity of the funding cuts mean that we can't keep policing every single issue as we have done in the past.

"If people are using cannabis discreetly in their own homes, in private, I would not expect the chief to make that a priority.”

He said the force would always target organised criminals producing large amounts of drugs.

The Merced Police Department served search warrants Friday and shut down Kiona’s Farm’acy in downtown Merced, alleging the business operated as a marijuana dispensary.

The police also ordered an investigation into business owner Lakisha Jenkins for possible tax evasion.

But Jenkins says her business is a nonprofit and agriculture cooperative that has been operating in California for more than a decade. Though the Farm’acy does sell cannabis to some members, who Jenkins said mostly are cancer patients, it also sells hundreds of herbs, teas and organic produce. Jenkins calls it a “holistic health center.”

She said the Merced Police Department and Merced County Sheriff’s Department eradicated a cannabis garden Sunday in a raid.

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The island state of Hawaii, also known as the Paradise State, just got one step closer to that goal this month. On July 15, 2015, Gov. David Ige signed HB 321, a bill authorizing the use of medical marijuana, into state law.

Police in Coventry say there are no plans to stop prosecuting low-level cannabis growers after another force said it was no longer a priority.

Durham Constabulary said they would now only step in if cannabis growing was blatant, or on a commercial scale.

Instead small scale growers could be cautioned and have their plants removed so they don’t face prosecution.

A spokesman for West Midlands Police said there were no plans to follow Durham’s lead.

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She said: “The decision to seek a prosecution around cannabis production very much depends on the evidence, but there is no specific policy in place not to prosecute these type of offences.”

In an intelligence led operation targeting the activities of an organised criminal gang, Gardaí stopped a truck and a car at St Margaret's Road in Finglas shortly before 7pm on Saturday night.

One hundred kilograms of Cannabis resin, with a street value of €600,000, and over 40,000 prescription drugs were discovered and seized.

The value of the prescription drugs is hard to determine before testing is carried out.

Two men, in their 30s, were arrested and detained under Section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act, 1996 at Finglas Garda Station.

The men can be held for up to seven days before charges are made.

A petition for the full legalization of marijuana in the UK has gathered more than 130,000 signatures in just four days, which means that the lawmakers must now consider debating it in Parliament or at least officially respond to the query.

LHVnews, (RT)- The electronic petition, created by James Richard Owen, calls for the legalization of the production, sale and use of cannabis and currently has close to 135,000 signatures since being launched on Tuesday.

According to The Courier Journal, Louisville local Will Russell was arrested at the Executive Strike & Spare bowling alley for possession of marijuana.

In what could be the plot of a Coen Brothers movie, the founder of Lebowski Fest, an annual party to celebrate the 1998 stoner-bowling movie, was arrested on Saturday… at Lebowski Fest. As the 14th yearly gathering of Dudes and Jesuses and Walters screaming about the rules commenced, the founder of the fest was arrested in the most Lebowski way ever.

Milton Borough has become the third Valley municipality to support medical marijuana in Pennsylvania.

Borough Council voted 8-2 last week to urge state House members to vote in favor of state Senate Bill 3, which would legalize medical marijuana in the state. Council Vice President Linda Meckley and Councilman Charles Swartz voted no.

Neither Meckley nor Swartz could be reached for comment.

Selinsgrove Borough Council voted 4-3 earlier this month to endorse the bill adopted May 22 by the state Senate and sent on to the state House. The Danville Borough Council later voted 5-3 to not consider it. On Tuesday night, Lewisburg Borough Council voted 6-1 in support of the proposal.

If he were elected president, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker says he would enforce the federal law that bans the use and sale of marijuana, which includes enforcing it in the states which have legalized it.

During a radio interview with KTRS 550 on Wednesday, Walker said he believes the legalization of marijuana is a states’ rights issue, but if there is a federal law that makes its use and sale illegal, then that law must be enforced: