Eastern Shore authorities seized more than 700 adult marijuana plants worth about $1.45 million from an abandoned property in Chesterville, Maryland.

The investigation into the property began in August. Officials said the plants, ranging between 6- and 10-feet tall, were weeks away from being harvested.

The 15-acre property located in the 3100 block of Chesterville Bridge Road was abandoned several years ago, according to a release provided by the Queen Anne’s County Sheriff’s Office. The property included one large home and several “outbuildings” that had been sitting vacant.

Authorities said the property was only visited occasionally by the family members who live in Delaware

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The debate in the Westminster Hall today (Monday) followed the submission of an e-petition to the Parliament website calling for the legalisation of cannabis, signed by 220,000 people – more than twice the number needed to gain a hearing among MPs.

Labour MP Paul Flynn, opening the debate, said: “I would like to illustrate how this Government—like all Governments—have handled this issue. It is typified by the response we had to this thunderously eloquent petition.

“The Government response begins with the statement that ‘cannabis is…harmful’.

Salesman Floyd Hardrick, right, 24, of Detroit assists Lisa Price, 55, of Detroit at 420 Dank. Price is suffering from Degenerative Disc Disease and has a medical marijuana license. (Photo: Salwan Georges, Detroit Free Press)

Concerned Detroiters who cringe at the rapid spread of marijuana dispensaries and medical card-holders who rely on the product for treatment packed a public hearing today to debate proposed regulations of the city's medical marijuana industry.

On Saturday October 3, 2015 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated to a cheering partisan audience: “Tobacco is a product that does a lot of damage. Marijuana is infinitely worse and it’s something that we do not want to encourage.”

He added, “There’s just overwhelming and growing scientific and medical evidence about the bad long-term effects of marijuana,” not providing examples or citations.

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Investigators in Queen Anne's and Kent County say they have seized over a million dollars worth of marijuana from a farm in Chesterville.

The Maryland State Police say around mid-August, they found a possible outdoor marijuana growing operation on Chesterville Bridge Road, and started an investigation. MSP, along with the Queen Anne's County Drug Task force and the Kent County Narcotics Task Force, spearheaded the investigation. Investigators said they found that the 15 acre overgrown property had been abandoned several years ago, and included a large home that had been entirely covered in plywood, and several out-buildings. The property was apparently only occasionally visited by Delaware family members.

A new group at the University of Washington School of Law will spend the 2015-16 academic year studying existing and emerging markets for marijuana, to assist and inform the state as it prepares to blend current medical and recreational markets for cannabis.

It’s called the Cannabis Law and Policy Project, and is overseen by law professor Sean O’Connor and funded by an $185,000 grant through the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board.

The British government's attitude towards cannabis is the same as the American refusal to introduce strict gun controls, a Labour MP has said ahead of a parliamentary debate on the drug.

Paul Flynn said the UK had been "left behind" by many other countries, including many US states, which had decriminalised medicinal cannabis.

"We are in a position rather like America is on gun laws. Most of the rest of the world is baffled by our refusal to reform," he told The Huffington Post UK.

Today parliament will debate the legalisation of cannabis after over 200,000 people signed an online petition calling for MPs to address the issue.

Topsoil from Buckingham Palace could soon be growing marijuana as Tate Modern director Chris Dercon admitted visitors had already begun to "guerrilla garden" the new Turbine Hall exhibition.

Artist Abraham Cruzvillegas's Empty Lot features 240 wooden planters holding soil from 34 London parks and gardens - but visitors have begun throwing their own seeds onto the plots even before the sculpture officially opens.

Asked if visitors might throw the drug's seeds onto the soil, Curator Mark Godfrey said: "As to what grows - you mentioned marijuana - people might throw seeds in. We don't know."

Director Chris Dercon said that although throwing seeds will not be actively encouraged, the Tate has accepted that such plants might grow.

They will spend a whopping three hours discussing the highs and lows of legalising the production, sale and use of the drug in a Parliamentary debate.

Government bowed down to pressure to mull over the great pot debate following a 221,000 signature petition.

Drug experts will consider how a legal market for cannabis could work in Britain.

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SIGNATURES: The great pot debate follows a 221,000 signature petition

“We must end the hypocrisy of senior politicians admitting to using cannabis in younger years – and describing it as ‘youthful indiscretions’”

Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb