Cannabis farms found 'treble'
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The number of cannabis farms being uncovered by police has trebled in two years, says DrugScope.
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Cannabis use among young people has fallen significantly since controversial downgrading.
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A mental health charity is calling for a government inquiry into the link between cannabis and mental illness.
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Bumper cannabis crops -- and tighter border controls -- are creating a looming internal drug problem for the country
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Cannabis plants lay stacked up  like Christmas trees around a police station near this remote  Albanian village, a humbling sight for growers who two years  ago took pot-shots at an Italian police helicopter.
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More cannabis is being grown in Wales and the numbers of under-16s using the drug is rising, a BBC Wales investigation reveals.
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By GRAEME SMITH  SCOTTISH scientists who have achieved a major breakthrough in the understanding of how the brain develops are warning that smoking cannabis during pregnancy could affect the unborn child.
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The 22,740 marijuana plants discovered growing in and around Point Reyes National Seashore in California was a huge seizure and a huge environmental mess.
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Weeds sometimes hide fertile fields of growth.
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Vietnamese criminal gangs cash in on child labour UK drug information organisation DrugScope has highlighted the plight of child "slaves" forced to work in illicit UK cannabis farms.â¦
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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A LAPTOP owner sent her computer for repair - and got another one back that gave instructions on how to set up a drug farm.   Stacey Knox, 27, from Newcastle, said: "There were more than 100 pictures of every different kind of cannabis and guides on how to avoid being caught by the police.
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By Sophia Kazmi, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep. 7--ALAMEDA COUNTY -- The Alameda County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday destroyed 1,500 marijuana plants discovered this week in the hills between Pleasanton and Fremont.
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By By Kathe Tanner, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep. 21--Authorities seized 5,777 marijuana plants on Hearst Ranch property, along the ridgeline about four miles southeast of Hearst Castle, a sheriff's official confirmed today.
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Afghanistan's vast and lucrative opium production may drop slightly this year from a record spike, but world-high cannabis output is likely to rise, a United Nations survey released Wednesday said.
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Thousands of soldiers sent to seize control of one of Mexico's top drug-producing regions have discovered widespread cultivation of a hybrid marijuana plant that is easy to grow and difficult to kill, officials said Tuesday.
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By Greg Cima, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Feb. 1--MERNA -- A man who called police about a burglary at his home last month apparently didn't realize sheriff's police would smell the marijuana-growing operation in his basement.