A lush field of marijuana was discovered on city land near a metro station in Moscow, Russia after apparently being accidentally planted by city authorities themselves, according to drug control officers. Agents had to "try out the profession of gardening" to remove at least 230 cannabis plants from the area around the Brateyevo Metro Station currently being built in south Moscow, according to the Federal Drug Control Service, reports The Moscow Times . Local officials had filled the area with soil as part of a development project. By last month, a thick crop of cannabis plants had sprouted...

New Hampshire residents will remain without legal access to medical marijuana after an attempt to override a gubernatorial veto failed narrowly in the state Senate Wednesday. The Senate needed 16 votes to override Gov. John Lynch’s (D) veto, but came up three short. Since the Senate failed to get the necessary votes for an override, no vote was taken in the House. Two Democrats who had voted for the bill, Senate Bill 409 , changed course and voted to uphold Lynch’s veto, but even if they hadn’t, the Senate would still have been one vote short because another “yes” voter, Sen. Andy Sanborn,...