Authorities say narcotics task force agents have seized an estimated 25,000 marijuana plants worth up to $100 million on a Southern California farm believed to be run by Mexican drug traffickers.

Sheriff's Deputy Steve Reed, a member of the San Diego County Integrated Narcotics Task Force, was on helicopter patrol looking for marijuana farms Tuesday when he spotted the plants growing on the Santa Ysabel Indian Reservation.

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An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation.

The Kestrel will be prototyped and tested later in August by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc., a vehicle development firm focused on advanced materials and technologies, the company announced

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Whatever they're smoking at Facebook HQ, it's not marijuana.

The social networking website reportedly told the Just Say Now campaign, a group getting out the vote for Prop. 19, the November ballot measure that could legalize non-medical pot use, sales and production in California, that "the image of a marijuana leaf" was "no longer acceptable" for its Facebook advertising, according to Wired.

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Group complains when Facebook blocks image of pot leaf