WeedLife News Network

The Guinness Book of World Records can tell you which city has the fastest internet connection, and which has the oldest restaurant, but  it doesn't say which city smokes the most weed, writes James McClure.

Canadian cannabis companies are increasingly setting their sights on South America, where several countries are liberalizing their cannabis laws.

While it still has yet to become legal, Canada’s marijuana industry is officially larger than its beer or tobacco industries in terms of production.

Marijuana should be legalized in two of Mexico’s main tourist hot spots, Cancun and Los Cabos, in order to reduce criminal violence, Mexico’s minister for tourism said on Thursday.

France's fight against cannabis, through tough laws to punish users, has long been a failure -- the French remain among Europe's biggest dope smokers.

Thailand is on the fast track to legalizing medical marijuana, the country's Narcotics Control Board director, Sirinya Sitdhichai, announced this week. 

Greece's parliament is expected to approve the medical use of cannabis in the coming weeks, a deputy minister said Sunday, adding that the change would attract investment to the country.

Colombia could supply 44% of the global demand for medicinal marijuana in 2018 after the board of directors of the country’s Drug Control Fund authorized the harvest of 40,5 tons of this plant for export-only proposes.

Canadian marijuana company Aurora Cannabis Inc on Thursday decided to partner with Danish tomato and pepper producer Alfred Pedersen & Son to produce and sell cannabis in Europe.

As Canada moves towards legal recreational weed in July, the number of licensed growers has swelled to 84, production is skyrocketing, and research into new growing techniques and improved strains is increasing exponentially.

Mexico will legalize sales of marijuana-based medicines, foods, drinks, cosmetics and other products early next year, its health regulator said on Wednesday, bringing some forms of cannabis into legal commerce even as the country struggles with the illicit drug trade.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says ''next summer," and not July 1, is the date cannabis will become legal across the country.

Under current law, Ministry of Health approval is required before most cannabis-based products can be prescribed.

Canadians consumed an estimated $5-billion to $6.2-billion worth of cannabis in 2015, a study by Statistics Canada showed on Monday, ahead of the nationwide legalization of recreational use of the drug next year.

The trillium is Ontario’s official flower and marijuana could now be considered the province’s official weed with the passage of the Cannabis Act.

Five months after legalising recreational marijuana, there are more than 16,000 Uruguayans registered to buy the drug from pharmacies, up from 5,000 users in July.

Nova Scotia and P.E.I. both set their legal age for marijuana at 19 on Thursday, but the two East Coast provinces are taking different paths on how weed will be sold.

The BC government has released its plan for recreational marijuana following a public consultation process with more than 48,000 responses.

It may not feature in Morocco's official tourism brochures but cannabis attracts thousands of visitors a year to the North African country. 

With a potential value of more than $40 billion, Europe’s medical marijuana market could become the world’s largest in the next five years.