The retired neurosurgeon and 2016 Republican presidential candidate told Glenn Beck on Wednesday that he would intensify the War on Drugs and that he opposes the legalization of marijuana.

2016 GOP presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson told Glenn Beck on Wednesday that he opposes the legalization of marijuana and that he would “intensify” the federal government’s War on Drugs.

Cullman County authorities have carried out the second-largest marijuana seizure in Alabama this year. 

Around 4 p.m. Thursday, Cullman Narcotics Enforcement agents located 1,800 rooted, mature marijuana plants in the Arkadelphia community of Cullman County. 

Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry said it was an elaborate organization with an advanced water filtration system and tents set up where he believes people have been living for months, tending to the plants. 

"This is a huge bust for us in Cullman County, because it seized approximately $3.6 million worth of marijuana," Gentry said. 

With the help of the Cullman police helicopter, Cullman County officials say it took approximately five hours to get all of the plants cut down.  

PORTAGE, Mich. (WOOD)– On Nov. 3, Portage voters will decide if they want to be the next city  to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana.

The charter amendment on the ballot reads:

Shall the Charter of the City of Portage, Michigan, be amended by adding a new Section 5.14 to Chapter 5, entitled “Marijuana,” to state that: “Nothing in the Code of Ordinances shall apply to the use, possession or transfer of less than 1 ounce of marijuana, on private property not used by the public, or transportation of 1 ounce or less of marijuana, by a person who has attained the age of 21 years?”

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -

A Eureka man was sentenced Friday to seven years and three months in prison and ordered to pay $17,000 in restitution for conspiring to manufacture and possess with intent to distribute marijuana and for depredation of public lands and resources, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

According to court documents, Arturo Alcazar-Tapia, 22, and his brother, Isidro Alcazar?Tapia, 26, both of Eureka, conspired to grow more than 20,000 marijuana plants at two sites in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Trinity County.

e know how annoying it is when a package you’re expecting gets lost in the mail, and so do police in Hazlet, N.J. That’s why they want the public to know that they’ve got boxes filled with around 50 pounds of marijuana that was delivered to the wrong person just waiting for its rightful owner to claim it.

SAN DIEGO — Authorities seized 12 tons of marijuana and arrested 22 people after discovering one of the longest cross-border tunnels between the U.S. and Mexico, officials said Thursday.

The passage connecting warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, was about 2,400 feet (730 metres) long and 30 feet (nine metres) deep. It was lit, ventilated and equipped with a rail system — hallmarks of the most sophisticated tunnels found along the border.

Near-simultaneous police stings on Wednesday resulted in six arrests in San Diego and 16 in Mexico. Authorities recovered two tons of marijuana in the U.S. and 10 tons in Mexico.

U.S. authorities said smugglers tried to move the first load of drugs through the tunnel on Wednesday but that nothing got through undetected.

spite declaring war against heroin, Harford County Executive Barry Glassman is not concerned that the arrival of medical marijuana in Maryland will usher in a slippery slope for more cannabis use.

As a state senator last year, Glassman supported bills allowing medical marijuana and the decriminalization of small amounts of the drug.

That support puts him at odds with Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler and Joe Ryan, the county's Drug Control Policy Director, who have called the state's approval of medical pot a very bad idea.

A proposed marijuana legalization initiative backed by former Facebook president and Napster co-founder Sean Parker could allow Californians 21-and-over to possess an ounce of pot and grow six marijuana plants while creating a regulated cannabis industry with a 15 percent tax on retail marijuana sales.

A 51-page October 14 draft on the much-awaited initiative, obtained by The Bee today, appears to build upon regulations signed by Gov. Jerry Brown this month to impose state oversight on California’s existing medical marijuana industry. The draft, connected with Parker’s name, has circulated as fine-tuning on the measure continues.

Jason Kinney, a spokesman for Parker’s group, declined to authenticate the draft.

The government's new blanket ban on psychoactive substances will be unworkable, difficult to prosecute and will put lives at risk, MPs have heard.

Evidence from legal experts and leading academics, submitted to the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC), suggests that prosecutors will struggle to prove that many legal highs are actually psychoactive.

Cases brought against producers of legal highs could fail due to the absence of any clinical trials on humans, MPs heard.

The presidential front-runner claims black lives matter but won’t support a popular reform that would save black lives

Toward the end of the first Democratic debate last week, the moderator, Anderson Cooper, brought up the topic of marijuana with a joke. “Some of the candidates have tried marijuana, as have pretty much — probably everybody in this room,” he said. The largely white, upper-middle-class audience laughed. Of course they had.