Next year promises to be action-packed in a variety of ways. Americans will be electing a new president, the make-up of Congress could once again shift, and more states are likely to be placing marijuana initiatives on their ballots to expand its use medically or recreationally (or both) as Ohio recently attempted with its November 2015 proposal.

The federal government is still spending millions of dollars eradicating marijuana plants, even spending money in states that have legalized cannabis. While law enforcement officials have claimed that they need these funds to help battle cartels, some members of Congress state that historical data shows that a vast majority of plants eradicated under Uncle Sam’s marijuana eradication program are merely wild plants descended from industrial hemp.

UPDATED: Monday, Nov. 30 at 2.20 p.m. AEDT: NSW Police have confirmed they burnt the seized cannabis.

A patch of grass is about to land someone in trouble — a football field-sized amount of trouble.

Australian police have seized more than 8,500 cannabis plants, bordered by a 150 metre-long by 50 metre-wide fence (164 yards by 54.6 yards) on the New South Wales north coast. As theDaily Telegraph pointed out, that's bigger than the Sydney Football Stadium, or larger than a soccer field.

SAN JOSE -- With just weeks to go before a December deadline for compliance, medical marijuana providers are still balking at some of San Jose's rules and city officials are offering to ease them.

Nineteen pot providers have been seeking to meet San Jose's regulatory requirements by December 18. The rules, adopted in June 2014, restrict pot stores to select industrial and commercial areas away from schools and parks and impose a host of security, tax payment and other requirements. Dispensaries that fail to meet the requirements by the deadline face closure.

Some of the medical marijuana sold at A2C2 The All American Cannabis Club in Campbell was photographed on Oct. 2, 2015. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) ( Dai Sugano )

In 2014, New York City gave officers the discretion to issue those caught with less than 25 grams of marijuana a summons to appear, rather than arrest them. Officers can still arrest people if they are in possession of less than 25 grams of marijuana in New York City ”if the marijuana is burning, if the type of possession indicates intent to sell, if the individual has an outstanding warrant, or if the individual is in a location with special consideration, like a school.” When you compare the year-to-date marijuana arrest statistics to those from the same time last year, marijuana arrests are down significantly in New York City. Per the New York Post:

ARLINGTON, TEXAS (STORYFUL) - Police in Arlington, Texas, posted on November 27 about the accidental discovery of seven pounds of marijuana after a parcel was sent to the wrong person.

The parcel was delivered to the correct address but the name on it was different to that of the homeowner.

The residents, who had recently purchased the home, immediately contacted police after opening the box and finding the marijuana.

U.S. Postal inspectors took over the investigation.

Sydney: More than 12,500 cannabis plants – with an estimated potential street value in excess of $16 million – have been found in the Richmond Local Area Command over the last three weeks.

Police from the State Crime Command's Drug Squad and the Police Air Wing, PolAir, have raided  illegal crop sites across the commans as part of the Cannabis Eradication Program (CEP).

Last week alone they raided sites at Cawongla, Wadeville, New Italy, Double Duke, Jackie Bulbin, Mumblegum, Bulldog and Ewingar, with more than 4000 plants – worth more than $8 million on the streets – seized.

ASHEVILLE - Police arrested an Asheville man on charges of possessing five baggies of marijuana for sale.

Christopher Antwai Brewster, 27, of Walton Street was also charged with resisting a pubic officer by giving a false name when served with an arrest warrant for a probation violation, according to warrants filed in the Buncombe County Magistrate's Court.

Brewster was being held in the Buncombe County Detention Facility with bond set at $15,000.

In other arrests:

An Ohio military officer was dismissed after he a symbol on his uniform that upheld legalizing pot in a state.

Vermilion Mayor Eileen Bulan pronounced that Captain Michael Reinheimer pennyless departmental manners by campaigning on a domestic emanate while on avocation during a military auction.

The City of Ukiah is evaluating its current regulations on growing medical marijuana, and will likely have more discussions and perhaps recommended actions for the City Council soon, City Manager Sage Sangiacomo said at the board’s most recent meeting earlier this month.

“I know that the marijuana ad-hoc committee (which includes Council members Jim Brown and Maureen Mulheren) is working diligently reviewing the regulations and determining possible actions for the Ukiah City Council, and they may be brought forward for further discussion,” Sangiacomo said, responding to a city resident who urged the council to review its medical marijuana regulations in light of a regulatory package signed into law in October that requires state oversight of the entire industry.