https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed French politicians across the board on Tuesday slammed a Socialist minister's call to legalize marijuana, re-igniting the debate in a country where cannabis use is common. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160412/france-sparks-up-debate-on-making-weed-legal Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:30:25 +0200 france-sparks-up-debate-on-making-weed-legal A 17-month-old baby from the southern suburbs of Paris ended up in hospital and tested positive for the cannabis drug. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150915/french-baby-tested-positive-for-cannabis Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:31:36 +0200 french-baby-tested-positive-for-cannabis A French supermarket butcher has been handed a suspended prison sentence after he gave his colleagues a cannabis-laced chocolate cake, a move that caused the shop to close and five people to be hospitalized. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150903/frenchman-caught-sharing-cannabis-cake-at-work Thu, 03 Sep 2015 17:26:59 +0200 frenchman-caught-sharing-cannabis-cake-at-work A new French law permitting cannabis derivatives to be used in the making of medicinal products, has gone into effect, it was reported on Monday. It remains to be seen, however, what form such products might take. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130610/legalized-cannabis-tea-could-be-on-drug-menu-for-french-patients-in-pharmacies Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:26:00 +0200 legalized-cannabis-tea-could-be-on-drug-menu-for-french-patients-in-pharmacies