Medical marijuana dispensaries in Oregon may now legally sell edibles and extracts to recreational users who do not have a medical marijuana card.On Thursday, the first day of the new sales program, recreational users flocked to stores...

HEADLINE: First Person: Seniors using medical marijuana CAPTION: Seniors at a retirement community in Orange County, California have set up their own medical marijuana collective. The participants say using the legal cannabis helps them...

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced on Thursday he will present a bill to raise the limit on decriminalised marijuana for personal use to 28 grams, or about one ounce.Previously, only possession of five grams, or less than a...

Thousands of people took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Saturday demanding the legalisation of marijuana.As part of the Global Marijuana March, marijuana smokers gathered at the Plaza de Mayo square and marched towards the National...

Thousands of people rolled weed or munched on pot-laced brownies in a San Francisco park, in the US state of California, during an annual marijuana event on Wednesday. Marijuana fans have long marked April 20 as a day to call for...

Thousands of people descended on San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to smoke pot for the annual 4/20 celebration, in what may be the last year marijuana is illegal in California.Fans of the drug have long marked April 20 as a day to roll...

A Venezuelan and a US-based Japanese surgeon have come together to perform organ transplants on children living in the South American country where even basic medical supplies are a scarce resource.Dr. Tomoaki Kato of Columbia University...

May.18 -- Lloyd Blankfein, senior chairman of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the U.S. economy with Bloomberg's David Westin on "Balance of Power."

1. Wide shot, exterior, UN headquarters 2. Wide shot, Mexican Minister of Health, Julio Frenk Mora approaching podium, General Assembly Hall 3. Cutaway, Mexican delegation 4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Julio Frenk Mora, Mexican Health...

rHEADLINE: Raw Video: Sisters released from prison to donate kidney CAPTION: Two imprisoned sisters whose life sentences were suspended on the condition that one donates a kidney to the other have been released from a...

1. Exterior of Iraqi Medical Association building 2. Sign reading (Arabic) "Iraqi Medical Association" 3. Set up for Nadhim Abdul-Hameed Qassim, Head of Iraqi Medical Association 4. Close-up of Iraqi Medical Association emblem 5....

SOUNDBITE: Alan Thacker, Fast food worker "I thought that it was going to go through to the point where we were actually going to be able to get insurance." SOUNDBITE: Alan Thacker, Fast food worker "I feel like I'm drowning, you know,...

HEADLINE:Colo. voters OK legalization of recreational pot CAPTION: Colorado voters legalized recreational pot use on Tuesday, setting up a clash with federal drug policy. A similar measure was also approved in Washington state, though...

1. Wide view of Prague, including Charles Bridge and Prague Castle 2. People walking across Charles Bridge 3. Wide of patient Linzi Hawkes walking across Charles Bridge 4. Hawkes touching one of bridge''s statues for good luck 5....

English/Nat Thirty-six (m) million people in the world are HIV-positive, and of them more than 25 (m) million live in sub-Saharan Africa. According to the latest United Nations figures released to mark World AIDS Day on Friday, the rate...

Lawmakers from Mexico's leftist Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD) on Tuesday presented an initiative to decriminalise marijuana for medical purposes in the country. During a news conference at the Senate in Mexico City, PRD senator...

AP Entertainment London, February 12th 2007 1. Various exteriors 2. Close up model backstage 3. Various of backstage 3. SOUNDBITE (English) John Rocha, designer: (Reporter Q: "What is a size zero?") "I don't even know, I think it is...

Morocco's marijuana farmers live in a strange limbo in which brilliant green fields are left alone, while the growers themselves face constant police harassment. But a new draft law may bring some reprieve. It aims to legalise...

In Time: 11:31:20 1. Exterior Nephrology Institute of Havana 2. Hospital sign 3. Julio Antonio Valdes getting out of car 4. UPSOUND: (Spanish) Julio Antonio Valdes, Released Dissident: "Good, Good, Good." 5. Valdes entering hospital 6....

{SOT: Andrew Slavitt, QSSI Executive V.P.} "We didn't see the kind of full, integrated, end-to-end system testing that you're talking about until a couple of days leading up to the launch." {SOT: Rep. John Shimkus, R-IL} "Why not?...

Bangkok, 12 July 2004 1. Wide shot of AIDS conference stage 2. Audience members listening 3. Wide shot of audience 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yoweri Museveni, Ugandan President: "Therefore condoms may be all right in some varieties...

1. Wide of protesters during AIDS march demanding international access to anti-retroviral drugs, holding placards and banner reading (English) "AIDS Treatment Now" 2. Wide of protesters marching 3. Close of balloons decorated as globes,...

1. Various exterior shots of University College Hospital (UCH) and lobby 2. SOUNDBITE: (Russian with English translation) Walter Litvinenko, Alexander Litvinenko's father: "He was very courageous when he met his death and I am proud of...

HEADLINE: Lance Armstrong shelves his drug-testing plan CAPTION: Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong scrapped his much-publicized plan to set up an independent drug-testing program Wednesday because of high costs and...