Cannabis

Reporter in Guangzhou purchases marijuana online on Alibaba site

16 Apr 2013

They say you can get anything online in China these days - from your fake vanity iPhone "logins" to quirkier purchases such as rental boyfriends or girlfriends and names for unborn children.

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Marijuana being sold on e-commerce site Taobao, report says

15 Apr 2013

They say you can get anything online in China these days – from your fake vanity iPhone “logins” to quirkier purchases such as

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Darker dangers ignored in Hong Kong's youth drug abuse figures

28 Mar 2013

Last week, Narcotics Commissioner Erika Hui Lam Yin-ming relayed the results from the Central Registry of Drug Abuse survey of local and international school students. Rather predictably, the...

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Amsterdam shops selling pot will stay open

3 Nov 2012

Amsterdam's 220 coffee shops, where marijuana and hashish are openly sold and consumed, will remain open next year in spite of a new Dutch law meant to reduce drug tourism, the city's mayor said...

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Israel breeds medicinal cannabis without the buzz

3 Nov 2012

At the end of an unpaved road, in a quiet suburb of a sleepy town in northern Israel, horticultural revolutionaries are growing a strain of cannabis they say relieves symptoms of some chronic...

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Cannabis may help treat epilepsy, University of Reading researchers say

17 Sep 2012

British researchers have determined that a chemical in the cannabis plant could lead to effective treatments for epilepsy, with few to no side effects.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Marijuana farm in Kowloon City flat

Police yesterday uncovered an indoor marijuana farm in a Kowloon City flat after a tip-off.

They found 400 fully grown plants and hundreds of cannabis sprouts in the 350 sq ft...

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DNA clue to a better class of potato

Even small potatoes have their DNA sequenced now. And a company in the Netherlands has just announced the successful genetic sequencing of Cannabis sativa, the annual plant that has been widely...

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Detection rate hits low point

The overall crime-detection rate in the first half of this year fell to the lowest level in eight years, and police said this was due to a dip in crimes that usually had a high...

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High maintenance

The question that every pothead has at some time asked: why is marijuana illegal when the more damaging tobacco and alcohol are not? Customers of the brothers arrested for having 600 cannabis...

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Training planned to help traffic police spot drug-drivers

If a proposed law to combat drug-driving is approved, all frontline traffic police officers will be trained to recognise signs that drivers have taken drugs before they do preliminary tests at...

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Couple sought over expat's death in Western

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