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Graciela Elizalde, an 8-year-old who suffers from a severe form of epilepsy that causes intense seizures, receives hydrotherapy treatment at a swimming complex in Monterrey, Mexico. Elizalde began taking a marijuana extract recently. AP Photo/Esteban Felix.

Mexican Families Hoping for Medicinal Marijuana Watch Top Court

 
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- As Mexico's top court prepares to consider arguments that could open the door to the recreational use of marijuana, some families are hoping such a step could help make medicinal marijuana more accessible.
Justin Trudeau. Image: Alex Guibord via Wikimedia Commons

Will Justin Trudeau Make Good on Promise to Legalize Marijuana?

 
Canada’s new prime minister has promised his Liberal Party will legalize marijuana across the entire country.
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Australian government to legalise growing of medicinal cannabis; Labor calls for nationwide scheme

 
The Federal Government has announced it will legalise the growing of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
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Legalizing cannabis in the UK 'would raise hundreds of millions'

 
Exclusive: Private analysis for the British Treasury concludes that regulation could also produce huge savings for the justice system.
Medicinal cannabis may soon be legalized in Australia. Image: Max Mason Hubers via Sydney Morning Herald

Medicinal cannabis could be legally available in Australia by 2016

Jane Lee ~ Sydney Morning Herald ~

Medicinal cannabis could be legally grown and prescribed to patients as early as next year under a cross party bill that has attracted initial support from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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Thousands of Scots call for cannabis to be legalised

 
 
Cannabis should be legalised, according to thousands of Scots.
Tabetha (right) and Georgia-Grace Fulton (left), 13 and 8, both suffer from a degenerative lung disease. Their mother, Bobby-Jo (back left), brought the girls to Victoria, B.C., so they could access the cannabis oil treatment after a successful, and illegal, 12-week trial in Australia. Video image via CTVNews.ca

Australian girls in Canada for cannabis oil treatment

 
An Australian family who traveled to Canada in order to legally access cannabis oil treatment could soon be forced to return home, where the life-changing medication is outlawed.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau are shown in this combination photo. (Darryl Dyck / Dave Chidley / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Canada pot policy: Harper, Trudeau clash ahead of federal election

 
The debate over marijuana use in Canada has emerged in the federal election, pitting Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau squarely against Conservative Leader Stephen Harper over legalization.
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Marijuana coming next year to your local pharmacy, in Uruguay

Malena CastaldiReuters ~

Marijuana pioneer Uruguay said on Thursday it had granted licenses to two companies to grow the plant for commercial distribution, adding that the pot should go on sale in pharmacies next year.
Officers said the "small forest" of plants covered an area the size of a football pitch and was complete with a gazebo. Image: Met Police via BBC News

Virtual forest of marijuana discovered in London

BBC News ~

Scores of cannabis plants have been discovered growing in a remote area of disused land in south-west London.

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