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US Bible vendor Christian Book Distributors says its acronym has become confusing for customers After 40 years of trading, the American Christian bookseller CBD has been forced to change its name after customers in search of a different kind of balm – the cannabis-derived compound CBD – ended up in the wrong place. Christian Book…

The way THC operates in the body makes it hard to gauge its impacts, and plenty of drivers think it doesn’t affect them Nobody recommends driving while high. But years into legalization, it’s not clear if stoned drivers have become a hazard that demands a response. Even if they were, nobody would know what to…

A spike in deaths shows the failure of centralised policies. Holyrood should be allowed to try new methods Scotland’s drug mortality rate cannot be shelved as just another misery statistic. It has risen by 27% in a year and is three times England and Wales’s rate, 50 times Portugal’s and higher even than that of…

Many people use the marijuana extract CBD for pain relief, despite sketchy evidence of its benefits George shrugs over a wooden table at the Shoulder of Mutton pub in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. You’ll find him here most days, morning until night. “Why see the world when the world can come to you?” he asks…

A year into his cancer treatment, Stephen heard about the benefits of medical marijuana and CBD oil, but it has proven difficult to get Words and photographs by Ali Smith I was lying face down when I first heard about Stephen Schulman. I’d been feeling sorry for myself, complaining of an aching wrist and back…

A ‘yes’ in the referendum is a vote to regulate rather than criminalise a drug that’s widely used and less problematic than alcohol In New Zealand, cannabis is classified as an illegal drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975. Its possession, use and supply are subject variously to penalties ranging in severity from fines…

Lib Dem MP Norman Lamb has called for the legalisation of the substance Norman Lamb, a Liberal Democrat MP and former health minister, has spoken about buying and using cannabis oil to relax himself before an important meeting as part of a BBC documentary about the legalisation of the drug in Canada. Lamb visited Canada…

Legal medicine confiscated at Stansted treats seizures and panic attacks caused by form of epilepsy, says mother A severely epileptic five-year-old girl risks an “unnecessary death” according to her mother after border guards seized her consignment of medical cannabis oils at Stansted airport. Indie-Rose Clarry, who has Dravet syndrome, a form of epilepsy, suffered severe…

Minh was 16 when he was kidnapped, raped and trafficked to the UK, and then locked up and forced to grow cannabis. But when the police found him, he was treated like a criminal rather than a victim. By Annie Kelly More from this series: Exploitation in focus It was still dark on the morning…