Liam is six years old. He is Canada’s youngest medical marijuana user.

The day before Liam began using marijuana, he had 67 violent seizures, each lasting three to four minutes. In the 10 days after he began using it, he had one small seizure. He was riding horses, going on boat rides, and doing all the regular stuff you’d hope a six year-old gets to do. Google him. He gives the Jerry Maguire kid a run for his money.

Despite the US government’s nearly century-long prohibition of the plant, cannabis is nonetheless one of the most investigated therapeutically active substances in history. To date, there are over 20,000 published studies or reviews in the scientific literature referencing the cannabis plant and its cannabinoids, nearly half of which were published withinMany Jordan teenagers 'support honour killings' By Ahmed Maher

BBC News Published duration 20 June 2013

image caption Jordan's Queen Rania has campaigned against honour killings

A significant proportion of teenagers in Jordan think that honour killing is morally right, a study by researchers in the UK suggests.

One third of those interviewed for the study said murder was a justified punishment for women or girls if they shamed their families.

The researchers from Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology interviewed more than 850 students.

They came from a range of secondary schools across the capital, Amman.

The schools included private and state institutions, and were both mixed and single gender.

"The sample is large enough to draw valid conclusions about adolescents in the capital of Jordan, Amman," Professor Manuel Eisner, the main supervisor of the study,