Spain has allowed the medication derived from cannabis - the main ingredient in marijuana - for the treatment of spasticity in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez said the therapeutic use of cannabis has been studied for "many years" and is well-documented in clinical trials.

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Raised in Montana and a resident of Alaska for 18 years, Robin Rae Brown, 48, always made time to explore in the wilderness. On March 20, 2009, she parked her pickup truck outside Weston, Florida, and hiked off the beaten path along a remote canal and into the woods to bird watch and commune with nature. “I saw a bobcat and an osprey,” she recalls. “I stopped once in a nice spot beneath a tree, sat down and gave prayers of thanksgiving to God.” For that purpose, Robin had packed a clay bowl and a “smudge stick,” a stalk-like bundle of sage, sweet grass, and lavender that she had bought at an airport gift shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Under the tree, she lit the end of the smudge stick and nestled it inside the bowl. She waved the smoke up toward her heart and over her head and prayed. Spiritual people from many cultures, including Native Americans, consider smoke to be sacred, she told me, and believe that it can carry their prayers to the heavens.

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Inside City Hall in Oakland, Calif., Jim Wilcox explained his plan for a commercial marijuana farm. “My idea was a Silicon Valley of cannabis,” he told the city council recently. “An office park for pot.” The council has approved the creation, licensing and taxing of four such medical marijuana farms inside Oakland city limits.

Four hundred miles to the south in Los Angeles, it’s a completely different story. After four years running the Pure Life Alternative Wellness Center, Yami Bolanos fears her medical marijuana dispensary will be shut down. “The patients are the ones that are getting screwed royally by the city council.”

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Bail was set at $3 million Monday for a man suspected of growing 2,500 marijuana plants that police valued at $7.5 million.

Bail was set when the 45-year-old man made a preliminary appearance in Yakima County Superior Court, where he is expected to be charged with possession and intent to deliver and manufacture a controlled substance, according to authorities.

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Die nigerianischen Behörden beschlagnahmten fast eine halbe Tonne Kokain aus Südamerika. Zwei chinesische und ein nigerianischer Staatsangehöriger wurden verhaftet.

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Nigeria's drug enforcement agency says it has seized nearly half a ton of cocaine and has arrested two Chinese nationals and a Nigerian in connection with the seizure.

The agency says the 450 kilograms (some 990 pounds) of cocaine was found in a container Monday in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos.

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The U.K.'s primary medical regulatory body has approved a cannabis-derived spray for treatment of spasticity in multiple-sclerosis patients, Reuters reported June 18.

The drug, Sativex, was the first marijuana-based medication to be cleared for prescription use in Canada, where it has been used to treat neuropathic pain since 2005.

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