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• March - April 1998
  • Thousands March in London to Legalize Marijuana
     
• February 1998
  • Canadian Snowboarder Retains Olympic Gold Medal After Testing Positive For Marijuana; Canadian Debate on Marijuana Decriminalization Prompted
  • World Health Organization Accused of Suppressing Finding That Marijuana Is Relatively Safe
  • Hawai'i Supreme Court Upholds Marijuana Prohibition
  • British House of Lords to Make Cannabis Inquiry
  • Mendocino County, CA Supervisors Call on Congress to Study Marijuana Issue, Support Proposition 215
  • NBA Debates Marijuana Policy
     
• January 1998
  • Georgia State Senator Seized at Airport with Marijuana, Pays $500 Fine
  • Illinois Governor Pardons Teacher Fired for 23-Year-Old Marijuana Misdemeanor
     
• November - December 1997
  • Marijuana Growing in California Increasingly Under Mexican Direction, Police Say
  • DEA Subpoenas Publisher for List of Buyers of Marijuana Cultivation Book
     
• September - October 1997
  • British Newspaper, the Independent on Sunday, Calls for Marijuana Decriminalization
  • Oregon Petitioners Offer Double the Needed Signatures to Put Marijuana Recriminalization Law on 1998 Ballot
  • Second Endogenous Substance Similar to THC Found
  • Challenger of Canadian Marijuana Law Sentenced to Three Years Probation, Fined $750

• August 1997
  • Oregon Recriminalizes Possession of Small Amounts of Marijuana
  • Decriminalizing Marijuana Proposed in Australia
  • Canadian Constitutional Challenge to Marijuana Laws Rejected by Trial Court, Appeal Planned
  • Helicopters to Continue Low-Flying Marijuana Eradication Efforts in Northern California
     
• July 1997
  • Marijuana Affects Brain Similarly to Opiates and Alcohol, Says Two New Marijuana Studies
  • Austin Blues Legend Indicted on Federal Marijuana Charges
    

• October 1996
  • Chocolate May Mimic Marijuana
     
• March 1996
  • Researchers Find Cognitive Impairment in Heavy Marijuana Users
     
• January 1996
  • Arizona Judge Finds Prosecution for Marijuana After Defendant Purchased Tax Stamps To Be Double Jeopardy
  • The Lancet Advocates Decriminalization and Regulation of Marijuana
     
• April 1995
  • Defense Attorney Acquitted of Conspiracy Charges

• March 1995
  • Medical Marijuana Legislation Introduced in Three States

• September-October 1994
  • Religious Defense in California Marijuana Trial
  • MAPS/California NORML Conducting Marijuana Study
  • Thermal Imaging -- Newest Weapon in "War on Drugs;" Court Rules Use Is Not a Search
  • Great Britain's Elderly Turning To Marijuana For Pain Relief

• August 1994
  • Should Marijuana Be Legal? Parade Magazine Asks Its Readers

• February 1993
  • Child's Account of Marijuana Growing Ends With Parent's Jailing
  • Sterile Marijuana Seeds Returned One Year After Fruitless Bust
  • About 10% of Marijuana Users May Abuse the Drug and Need Treatment

• January 1993
  • Half-Ton of Hashish Seized in Ohio