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A teen turned himself in Saturday after allegedly shooting a bullet through a road sign, which went into a wooded area, before fatally striking a retired U.S. Marine who was sitting on the porch of his South Carolina home earlier this month, authorities said.

Eason Reid Gravley, 17, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Joe Darius Black Jr., 48, a retired veteran of 20 years, Greenwood County deputies told Fox Carolina.

Black suffered a gunshot wound to his upper torso and died at the scene on October 10, the report said.

The veteran's wife and children were inside the home at the time of the incident, according to deputies. Black's family had administered CPR before the arrival of EMS personnel, who continued to treat the victim, deputies said.

Gravley is charged with involuntary manslaughter and possession of a handgun in connection with Black's fatal shooting, South Carolina's WYFF-TV reported.

The suspect has been released on $25,000 bond from the Greenwood County Detention Center, Fox Carolina reported.

Gravley was placed under a curfew, and a judge ordered all firearms to be removed from his home, according to WYFF-TV.

It was not immediately clear why the teen was shooting at the road sign.

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A teen turned himself in Saturday after shooting a bullet through a road sign, which went into a wooded area, before fatally striking a retired U.S. Marine who was sitting on his porch in North Carolina earlier this month, authorities said.

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Robert Mueller is expected to issue his findings from the Trump Probe. He will not release his findings until after the Midterms. Mueller will release his findings on whether there were clear incidents of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, and whether the president took any actions that constitute obstruction of justice.

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A suspected terror attack killed 18 and injured 50 in Crimea. The attacker is believed to have committed suicide.

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Twenty people- most of them teenagers - are now confirmed dead after a student went on a shooting spree and detonated a bomb at a college in Crimea, state-run Russian news agency TASS reported Thursday.

The suspected perpetrator also "shot himself dead" after the attack, said Crimean government head Sergey Aksyonov. The Crimean leader announced on Wednesday there would be three daysof mourning.

Crimea - a peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov - was annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014.

Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee told CNN that the blast was caused by an "unidentified explosive device" at a college in the city of Kerch - where a new 19-kilometer bridge links Crimea to Russia.

Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement: "According to preliminary data, an unidentified explosive device packed with metal objects went off today in the dining room of the Kerch Polytechnic College."

It said information on the victims is being clarified and that "most of them are teenagers."

Russia's Investigative Committee said Wednesday it had identified the alleged perpetrator and classified the case as a murder investigation, after initially saying it could have been a terror attack.

The statement added that investigators and forensic experts carried out an initial examination of the bodies of the victims that indicated they died from gunshot wounds.

The families of the victims involved will receive compensation, the speaker of the regional parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, told TASS.

"Assistance will be provided to the relatives of those who died and those who suffered," Konstantinov said, adding that preliminary discussions were underway about payments of 1 million rubles ($15,255) that would be allotted from the federal budget and 1 million rubles from the local budget to the family of each victim.

Russian state media, quoting emergency-services officials, reported earlier that a suspected gas explosion at the technical college claimed several lives and injured dozens of people. State television channel Rossiya-24 said 200 military personnel had been sent to the site of the incident.

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Twenty people- most of them teenagers - are now confirmed dead after a student went on a shooting spree and detonated a bomb at a college in Crimea, state-run Russian news agency TASS reported Thursday. The suspected perpetrator also "shot himself dead" after the attack, said Crimean government head Sergey Aksyonov.

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Instead of firing at an 11-year-old with a BB gun, an Ohio officer teaches him a lesson

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Columbus, Ohio police Officer Peter Casuccio responded to a 911 call of two young boys flashing a gun over the weekend. He found an 11-year-old with a BB gun. The officer didn't fire his weapon and use the encounter as a teachable moment.

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Rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel. No injuries have been reported yet, the two main militant groups in Gaza have refused to take responsibility for the rockets. There is possibility it was another militant protesting group. Israelly military says they will retaliate with rockets.

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A rocket fired from Gaza struck a home in the city of Beer Sheva in southern Israel early Wednesday, according to the Israeli military and Israel police.

Footage from Israel Channel 10 showed damage to the fence and yard of the home. No injuries were reported. A second rocket landed off the coast of central Israel, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said.

Israel's air force began striking targets in Gaza a few hours after the rocket launch, according to a statement from the Israeli military.

Israel struck nearly two dozen Hamas military targets throughout Gaza, Conricus added.

The targets include a tunnel, two digging sites, a weapons manufacturing site, a naval tunnel, and more. In addition, the IDF identified an attempted rocket launch in northern Gaza and struck the launcher before the rocket was fired.

Only Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the two main militant factions in Gaza, have access to the more powerful medium-range rockets required to hit Beer Sheva, which is some 40 kilometers east of Gaza, Conricus said. Israel holds Hamas - which controls Gaza - responsible for everything that happens in the coastal enclave.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad denied responsibility for the rocket fire, issuing an official joint statement hours after the attack that said, "The Joint Operation Room of the Palestinian Factions lauds the efforts exerted by Egypt to serve the Palestinians their legitimate demands, and we reject any other attempt to undermine the Egyptian endeavors, including the launch of a rockets took place last night."

Conricus didn't rule out the possibility of a rogue group firing the rocket, but added that the blame lies with Hamas.

The military wing of the Mujahideen Movement in Palestine (MMP) says one of their fighters, 25-year-old Naji Al Zaanin, was killed in an Israeli strike in the north of Gaza. MMP leader Mo'men Aziz told CNN they had nothing to do with the rocket launched from Gaza.

The Israeli military has also closed the Gaza border crossings and reduced the fishing zone off Gaza to three nautical miles, Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman said in a statement.

This was the second time since the end of the 2014 war that a rocket has landed in the area of Beer Sheva. In August, a rocket from Gaza landed near the city amid a serious escalation in hostilities.

On Tuesday, Liberman said he would urge the Cabinet to approve a "serious blow" against Gaza, claiming it was the only way to restore calm in the area.

"We must deliver a serious blow to Hamas, and this is the only option to return the situation to its previous level and to reduce the level of violence to zero or nearly to zero. This must be a decision of the security cabinet," Liberman said.

Meanwhile, an Islamic Jihad leader, Khader Habib, told CNN that the militant group remains committed to the truce between Gaza and Israel but added that if strikes continue in Gaza that "the resistance will certainly not stand idly by."

The rocket attack comes as an Egyptian delegation arrived in Gaza on Tuesday led by Ahmed Abdul Khaleq, an intelligence official in charge of the Palestinian file.

Egypt, along with the United Nations, are currently working to achieve inter-Palestinian reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah as well as a lasting ceasefire between Israel and Gaza militants. The head of Egypt's General Intelligence Service, Abbas Kamel, will arrive in Gaza on Thursday, sources in Gaza tell CNN.

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13 dead after an explosion at a college in Crimea. It was said to be a gas explosion but Russia's National Anti-Terrorism committee let out a statement saying it was caused by an unidentified explosive device. They are treating it as a terror attack.

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An explosion at a college in Crimea has reportedly killed at least 13 people and injured dozens, in what Russia n counterterrorism officials suspect is a terror attack.

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The explosion occurred at a state polytechnic college in the Black Sea city of Kerch on the eastern side of Crimea. Initial reports suggested it was a gas explosion, but Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee issued a statement saying the blast was caused by an "unidentified explosive device," and Russian officials said they were treating it as a terror attack.

At least 13 people were killed in the incident and around 50 injured, Russia's Investigative Committee, the equivalent of the FBI, said in a statement. The Russian state news agency, TASS, said at least 34 people were taken to two hospitals, citing medical officials.

Yekaterina Keizo/TASS via ZUMA Press

The Investigative Committee said it was opening a criminal investigation into the blast and was treating it as a suspected terror attack. The Committee said its early information suggested the explosion was caused by a bomb filled with metal objects. The majority of the victims were teenagers, it said.

The Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that President Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences to the victims and ordered emergency services to provide assistance.

About 200 soldiers and 10 military vehicles have been deployed to assist at the blast site, TASS reported, citing local military officials.

Video and photos published by local Crimean media showed people being carried into several ambulances at the scene, where some of the college's windows appeared blown out. Russian state television showed video of military armored vehicles driving rapidly towards the college.

Crimea has been under Russia's control since it sent troops to seize the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.

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Three ancient Ships were discovered last month that carried pottery from 1000 years ago. The findings from the "Ship graveyard include a 1,900-year-old lamp.

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Three ancient shipwrecks that carried pottery cargoes and two from later times were discovered last month by a Greek-U.S. team of marine archaeologists in the notoriously treacherous waters of the eastern Aegean Sea, a project official said Tuesday.

"The excitement is difficult to describe, I mean, it was just incredible. We knew that we had stumbled upon something that was going to change the history books," said underwater archaeologist Dr. Peter Campbell, according to Reuters.

The plethora of findings from the rich graveyard of ships includes a 1,900-year-old branded designer lamp. The wrecks also bore traces of looting by illegal antiquities hunters or of damage by fishing nets.

Campbell is co-director of the Fournoi survey project of the U.S.-based RPM Nautical Foundation, a non-profit organization involved in several Mediterranean underwater projects. The Fournoi survey project began in 2015.

The shipwrecks, all trading ships, were found off Fourni island and its surrounding islets. Fourni is made up of 20 small islands, islets and reefs, according to Reuters.

The recent discoveries make up 58 shipwrecks found in what archaeologists said may be the largest concentration of ancient wrecks ever found in the Aegean and possibly the entire Mediterranean, according to Reuters.

"I would call it, probably, one of the top archaeological discoveries of the century in that we now have a new story to tell of a navigational route that connected the ancient Mediterranean."
- Dr. Peter Campbell, co-director of the Fournoi survey project

"I would call it, probably, one of the top archaeological discoveries of the century in that we now have a new story to tell of a navigational route that connected the ancient Mediterranean," Campbell told the wire service.

The older wrecks date to the 4th and 2nd centuries B.C. and the 5th-6th centuries A.D., while the more recent ones are from the 18th or 19th century, said archaeologist George Koutsouflakis, joint leader of the project.

"It is not a coincidence that a large number of the wrecks have been found in those passages...if there is a sudden change in the wind's direction, and if the captain was from another area and was not familiar with the peculiarities of the local climate, he could easily end up losing control of the ship and falling upon the rocks," Koutsouflakis told Reuters.

Divers also recovered a group of 2nd-century A.D. terracotta lamps, incised with the names of the Corinthian artisans who made them, Octavius and Lucius, in addition to the cargoes of amphorae--jars that contained wine, oil and foodstuffs.

They may have been slave workers who later gained their freedom and set up their own pottery workshops, a Greek Culture Ministry statement said.

The project is planned to continue over the next five years, the ministry said.

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Canada is now the second country to legalize recreational marijuana usage. By doing so, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has fulfilled one of his campaign promises. While many people are celebrating this "End of Prohibition", others are criticizing it because of the negative side effects of cannabis, namely addiction.

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Canada legalized recreational use of Marijuana at midnight. The government has also claimed to have a plan to bring about pardons for those convicted of Marijuana use.

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MONTREAL - Canada on Wednesday became the first major world economy to legalize recreational marijuana use, beginning a national experiment that will alter the country's social, cultural and economic fabric, and present the nation with its biggest public policy challenge in decades.

Newfoundlanders became the first Canadians to be able to smoke pot legally, when retailers there opened in the country's easternmost province at midnight.
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Across the rest of the country, government-run stores were preparing to greet consumers, who will be able to choose among pre-rolled joints, fresh or dried marijuana flowers and cannabis oil - all of which are permitted under the new federal law.

And pot enthusiasts from Montreal to Winnipeg to Calgary were getting their bongs ready for "End of Prohibition" house parties.

The government is set to announce on Wednesday that it will make it easier for Canadians who were convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana to obtain a pardon, said a government official familiar with the plan who confirmed it but was not authorized to speak publicly about it.

"The fact that we are moving away from a Prohibition model is a victory for human rights and social justice, an economic windfall for the Canadian economy and a sign of social progress," said Adam Greenblatt, a director at Canopy Growth, a producer that has been valued at more than $10 billion dollars.

Others were more cautious.

"Legalization of cannabis is the largest public policy shift this country has experienced in the past five decades," said Mike Farnworth, British Columbia's minister of public safety.

"It's an octopus with many tentacles," he added, "and there are many unknowns. I don't think that when the federal government decided to legalize marijuana, it thought through all of the implications. "

In a stinging editorial published on Monday, the Canadian Medical Association Journal called the government's legalization plan an "uncontrolled experiment in which the profits of cannabis producers and tax revenues are squarely pitched against the health of Canadians."

It called on the government to promise to change the law if it leads to increased marijuana use.

But the so-called " green rush " is already on, as licensed cannabis growers have been rushing for months to get a foothold in what is expected to be a $5 billion industry ($6.5 billion Canadian dollars) by 2020, buttressed by the expected arrival of thousands of pot tourists from across the border in the United States.

When Justin Trudeau ran for prime minister three years ago, legalizing recreational marijuana was one of his campaign promises. Canadians broadly support cannabis legalization, reflecting a progressive liberal-minded country where use of the previously illegal drug has been commonplace.

Canada is only the second country in the world, after Uruguay, to legalize it.

According to Statistics Canada, 4.9 million Canadians used cannabis last year and consumed more than 20 grams of marijuana per person, spending a total of $5.6 billion.

Bernard Le Foll, a specialist in addiction at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, a leading teaching hospital and research organization, said that although the center supported legalization, he was concerned that the public dissemination of information about risks had been insufficient.

"Cannabis is not a benign substance," he said. "There is a clear risk of addiction and it can produce significant mental health issues if used by the wrong kind of people."

He added, "It took decades for the public to understand the risks of cigarettes, and the legalization of cannabis has taken place only over a few years."

The federal government has left the country's 13 provinces and territories to carry out the new legislation and to set their own rules, creating a patchwork of regulations. Among many open questions are how the police will test drivers who may be high and how employers deal with employees who smoke before coming to work.

Under Canada's new federal cannabis act, adults will be allowed to possess, carry and share with other adults up to 30 grams of dried cannabis, enough to roll roughly 60 regular-size joints. They will also be permitted a maximum of four homegrown marijuana plants per household.

Marijuana for medical purposes has been legal in Canada since 2001, and about 330,000 Canadians, including cancer patients, are registered to receive it from licensed producers.

Cannabis edibles - like pot-infused jelly beans, peanut butter and coffee - won't be legal for another year.

On Tuesday, on a commercial street in the east end of Montreal, a new government marijuana retailer, with the appearance of a modern pharmacy, was bracing for crowds. The sterility of the store design seemed calculated to make pot unglamorous, almost like buying cough syrup.

After being screened by unarmed security guards near the entrance to ensure that they meet Quebec's current legal age of 18 for cannabis consumption (19 in most other provinces), consumers will be able to scroll nearby flat computer screens detailing 180 products, such as Pink Kush, a dried cannabis flower that retails at about $95, or $122.90 Canadian dollars, for 15 grams.

To ensure that prices remain competitive with the black market, one gram of cannabis can be purchased for as low as about $4, or $5.25 Canadian dollars.

Inside the store, wooden shelves were stacked with cannabis products in boxes and containers, divided into three sections: Indica, Sativa and Hybrid.

Large big bold signs explained that Sativa could create the impression of being "uplifted and mentally stimulated," while Indica "could create the impression of a relaxed and sleep-induced state."

On opening day, attendants in green aprons will be explaining various weed aromas - lemon, skunk and diesel - as well as the intensity of THC in each product, which causes the psychotropic effects associated with cannabis.

As with cigarettes, the cannabis is clearly marked with health warnings like "One in eleven people who use cannabis will become addicted."

The government's stated rationale for legalizing cannabis is to tame an illegal trade estimated at $6.2 billion. But from Toronto to Winnipeg to Vancouver, hundreds of illegal shops have indicated they have no intention of shutting down, and the black market supply chain remains deeply entrenched.

Chief Constable Adam Palmer of the Vancouver Police Department, who is also the president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, warned this week that defusing the black market would take years. At a time of limited resources, he said, policing marijuana would not suddenly become law enforcement's primary concern.

"Fentanyl kills 11 Canadians a day," he said, referring to the powerful synthetic opioid that is a public health scourge in some cities like Vancouver. "Marijuana does not."

He added, "I don't expect a big crackdown on day one."

Among the biggest concerns among law enforcement and public safety officials is the risk that more people will drive while high.

Under the new law, those who drive stoned will face a fine of at least $1,000 Canadian dollars and up to five years in prison for cases that do not result in injury or death. Constable Palmer stressed that roadside sobriety tests would remain rigorous and that the number of officers trained to give such tests would increase from 13,000 to 20,000 over the next few years.

Police forces nationwide are divided over the reliability of roadside saliva tests for THC.

Some health officials warned that legalization threatened to create public health problems, if public education about risks did not intensify.

Jean-Sébastien Fallu, associate professor of applied psychology and a specialist in addiction at Université de Montréal, said he feared the new legalization so restricted what could be consumed and where that it could push users even further underground.

He also warned that the commercialization of cannabis risked "banalizing" the risks of consumption and creating peer pressure among vulnerable teenagers.

"We don't want young people to feel stigmatized, for example, if they don't use cannabis, and, as we have seen with alcohol, there can be a lot of social pressure," Mr. Fallu said.

" Once the profit motive becomes the main imperative," he added, "and big business lobbying becomes entrenched, we are worried that public health and safety will be sacrificed."

Many who had pushed for the new law anticipated the day as a moment of jubilation. But in Vancouver, protesters who say legalization hasn't gone far enough were planning to demonstrate Wednesday in front of Parliament in Victoria and to give away black-market joints.

Others were planning to smoke defiantly at the dozens of illegal marijuana dispensaries across the city.

"People don't want to buy government-approved joints," said Jodie Emery, a leading cannabis activist in Vancouver. "Legalization is little more than the whitewashing of cannabis culture."

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A explosion at Crimean college kills 13 and injures at least 50 so far. Russian officials are treating this as a terrorist attack and are taking necessary measures.

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An explosion at a college in Crimea has reportedly killed at least 13 people and injured dozens, in what Russia n counterterrorism officials suspect is a terror attack.

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The explosion occurred at a state polytechnic college in the Black Sea city of Kerch on the eastern side of Crimea. Initial reports suggested it was a gas explosion, but Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee issued a statement saying the blast was caused by an "unidentified explosive device," and Russian officials said they were treating it as a terror attack.

At least 13 people were killed in the incident and around 50 injured, Russia's Investigative Committee, the equivalent of the FBI, said in a statement. The Russian state news agency, TASS, said at least 34 people were taken to two hospitals, citing medical officials.

Yekaterina Keizo/TASS via ZUMA Press

The Investigative Committee said it was opening a criminal investigation into the blast and was treating it as a suspected terror attack. The Committee said its early information suggested the explosion was caused by a bomb filled with metal objects. The majority of the victims were teenagers, it said.

The Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that President Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences to the victims and ordered emergency services to provide assistance.

About 200 soldiers and 10 military vehicles have been deployed to assist at the blast site, TASS reported, citing local military officials.

Video and photos published by local Crimean media showed people being carried into several ambulances at the scene, where some of the college's windows appeared blown out. Russian state television showed video of military armored vehicles driving rapidly towards the college.

Crimea has been under Russia's control since it sent troops to seize the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.

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17 year old turns himself in after shooting a retired veteran of 20 years in the torso. The 17 year was shooting at a sign and it went through. The teen has been charged with involuntary man slaughter and procession of a fire arm.

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A teen turned himself in Saturday after allegedly shooting a bullet through a road sign, which went into a wooded area, before fatally striking a retired U.S. Marine who was sitting on the porch of his South Carolina home earlier this month, authorities said.

Eason Reid Gravley, 17, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Joe Darius Black Jr., 48, a retired veteran of 20 years, Greenwood County deputies told Fox Carolina.

Black suffered a gunshot wound to his upper torso and died at the scene on October 10, the report said.

The veteran's wife and children were inside the home at the time of the incident, according to deputies. Black's family had administered CPR before the arrival of EMS personnel, who continued to treat the victim, deputies said.

Gravley is charged with involuntary manslaughter and possession of a handgun in connection with Black's fatal shooting, South Carolina's WYFF-TV reported.

The suspect has been released on $25,000 bond from the Greenwood County Detention Center, Fox Carolina reported.

Gravley was placed under a curfew, and a judge ordered all firearms to be removed from his home, according to WYFF-TV.

It was not immediately clear why the teen was shooting at the road sign.

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A teen turned himself in Saturday after shooting a bullet through a road sign, which went into a wooded area, before fatally striking a retired U.S. Marine who was sitting on his porch in North Carolina earlier this month, authorities said.

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Canada is legalizing recreational marijuana for all citizens over the age of 18. All adults who were charged with marijuana possession of less than 30 grams will be given a pardon. It is still an offense if a minor is in possession.

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Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the legal age to use recreational marijuana in Canada. It's age 18 in two provinces and 19 in the rest of the country.

People in Canada are cheering, enduring long lines and honking their car horns in support as the country's first marijuana dispensaries open their doors Wednesday.

"I'm having a plaque made with the date and time and everything. This is never actually going to be smoked. I'm going to keep it forever," said Ian Power, who was among the first to buy marijuana in St. John's, a city in the country's easternmost province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Like Power, hundreds are now legally buying recreational marijuana all over Canada, but not without adjusting to a few rules.

As marijuana enthusiasts continue celebrating this historic day for Canada, here's a quick primer to get you up to speed.

Who can buy marijuana in Canada?

Adults will be allowed to buy, use, possess and grow recreational marijuana, under the law. In Quebec and Alberta, the legal age is 18; it's 19 in the remainder of the country. The measure legalizing the recreational use of the drug passed the Senate in June.

Where can I buy it?

The supply of recreational marijuana could be limited, at least early on, in some stores.

Officials in Nova Scotia and Manitoba said they won't have a large selection, at least not on the first day, CNN affiliate CBC News reported.

"My father is going to be my first customer, and my second customer is going to be a lady who has [multiple sclerosis]," Thomas Clarke, who owns Thomas H. Clarke's Distribution cannabis retail store in Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, told CBC News.

Marijuana will not be sold in the same location as alcohol or tobacco. Consumers are expected to purchase the drug from retailers regulated by provinces and territories or from federally licensed producers when those options are not available.

Can I travel in and out of Canada with weed?

No.

Please, save yourself a lot of trouble. Whether you are entering or leaving Canada, it is illegal to have marijuana with you, and you could face criminal charges.

You can't travel across international borders with it, even if it you are going to Colorado or any of the other eight US states where it has been legalized.

What about previous pot charges?

Authorities will soon announce plans to pardon Canadians who have been convicted of possession of 30 grams or less of marijuana, CNN partner CTV reported.

The production, distribution or sale of cannabis products will still be an offense for minors.

Why did they legalize it?

The Canadian legislation, known as the Cannabis Act, stems from a campaign pledge of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to keep marijuana away from underage users and curb marijuana-related crime.

It's been too easy for our kids to get marijuana - and for criminals to reap the profits. Today, we change that. Our plan to legalize & regulate marijuana just passed the Senate. #PromiseKept
- Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) June 20, 2018

Some health care professionals in Canada have said they are afraid of the consequences of legalizing marijuana. Stringent rules will still govern the purchase and use of marijuana.

Canada's government also made changes to impaired driving laws to address repercussions for driving under the influence of cannabis.

Legalizing cannabis is expected to create an industry worth more than $4 billion in Canada.

Where else is it legal?

Not in many places. Canada is only the second country in the world - and the first G7 nation- to allow a nationwide marijuana market. In December 2013, Uruguay was the first country to legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana.

Nine states in the United States and the District of Columbia now allow recreational marijuana use. Medical marijuana is legal in some form in 30 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

The pot industry took in nearly $9 billion in sales in 2017 in the United States, according to BDS Analytics. The revenue from those sales is equivalent to the entire snack bar industry.

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An explosion in a Crimea College is being investigated as a terrorist attack. 13 dead and over 50 injured.

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A deadly blast that ripped through a college in Russia-annexed Crimea on Wednesday is being investigated as a possible terror attack, the Kremlin said.

Russian news agencies reported 13 people were killed and up to 50 others were wounded in the explosion at the Kerch Polytechnic College in the Black Sea city of Kerch. The Russian Investigative Committee said an explosive device rigged with metal fragments went off in the dining room of the college.

Russian national guard official Sergei Melikov told Tass news agency the tragedy was a deliberate "terrorist act" and said it was caused by an improvised explosive device.

"There were lots of corpses, corpses of kids, a real terrorist attack," the director of the college said, according to the BBC.

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, would only frame the Kerch blast as a possible terrorist attack and said Putin ordered a probe into the deadly explosion. Peskov did not reveal who may have been responsible for the blast or a possible motive.

The National Anti-Terrorism Committee's spokesman Andrei Przhezdomsky said the building was being inspected for other explosive devices.

The Tass news agency reported most of the victims were students. Some Russian media outlets said 50 people were injured, and Reuters reported 18 people transported to hospitals.

"There are already lots of people in the emergency room, and in the operating theater," a school employee said, according to Tass news agency.

Initially, emergency officials said the explosion was believed to have been caused by a gas canister explosion.

Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov and Russia's health minister were en route to the scene. Photos from the scene that were posted by Kerch.FM showed debris on the ground and the windows of the building blown out.

Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move that triggered Western sanctions and worldwide condemnation. Kerch is located on the peninsula where a bridge links Russia and Crimea, Reuters reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A deadly blast that ripped through a college in Russia-annexed Crimea on Wednesday is being investigated as a possible terror attack, the Kremlin said. Russian news agencies reported 13 people were killed and up to 50 others were wounded in the explosion at the Kerch Polytechnic College in the Black Sea city of Kerch.

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Canada has become the second country after Uruguay to legalize possession and use of recreational marijuana.

Medical marijuana has been legal in the country since 2001.

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The first recreational cannabis to be legally bought in Canada was purchased at midnight on Wednesday (02:30 GMT) on the eastern island of Newfoundland amid queues of hundreds of people.

Canada has become the second country after Uruguay to legalise possession and use of recreational cannabis.

Medical marijuana has been legal in the country since 2001.

But concerns remain, including about the readiness for police forces to tackle drug impaired driving.

Information has been sent to 15m households about the new laws and there are public awareness campaigns.

As it happened: First day of legal Canadian pot

Who wins and who loses under new law

Ian Power, from the town of St John's began queuing at 20:00 local time so he could "make history". Newfoundland is half an hour ahead of the next province to the west.

"It's been my dream to be the first person to buy the first legal gram of cannabis in Canada, and here I finally am," he said.

Canadian provinces and municipalities have been preparing for months for the end of cannabis prohibition. They are responsible for setting out where cannabis can be bought and consumed.

This has created a patchwork of more or less restrictive legislation across the country.

How ready is Canada for legal cannabis?

There remain unanswered questions on some key issues around how legal cannabis will work in Canada.

A number of analysts are predicting a shortage of recreational marijuana in the first year of legalisation as production and licensing continues to ramp up to meet demand.

And the marketplace itself is still in its infancy.

Ontario, Canada's most populous province, will only begin opening retail stores next spring, though residents will be able to order cannabis online.

British Columbia, one of the provinces with the highest rates of cannabis use, will only have one legal store open on Wednesday.

Canada cannabis legalisation: 'We know the world is watching'

Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

Until retail locations are more widely available, some unlicensed cannabis retailers, which have flourished in the years since the law was first proposed, may stay open.

It is unclear if police will crack down on them immediately, or if they will turn a blind eye.

What's at stake?
Jessica Murphy, BBC News, Vancouver
Legal pot has been an inescapable topic for months in Canada, as governments and companies prepared in earnest for 17 October.

That day is finally here, and Canadians will learn just how much - or how little - the new framework will change the country. But this is not just a domestic affair.

With global trends shifting away from a strict prohibition of cannabis, the world will be watching this national experiment in drug liberalisation.

A measure of success - whether legalisation will be a win for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ahead of the 2019 federal election - will depend on whether it meets his stated goals: restricting access of the drug to youth - who are among the heaviest users in Canada - reducing the burden of cannabis laws on the justice system, and undercutting the illicit market for the drug.

And if the outcomes are positive, other countries might just be more willing to follow suit.

Why is Canada legalising cannabis?

Legalisation fulfils a 2015 campaign promise by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the leader of the governing Liberal Party.

The prime minister has argued that Canada's nearly century-old laws criminalising use of the drug have been ineffective, given that Canadians are still among the world's heaviest users.

Legalising cannabis: What you need to know

The cops joining the marijuana business

He said the new law is designed to keep drugs out of the hands of minors and profits out of the hands of criminals.

The federal government also predicts it will raise $400m a year in tax revenues on the sale of cannabis.

Cannabis possession first became a crime in Canada in 1923 but medical use has been legal since 2001.

What is the situation elsewhere?

Canada follows in the footsteps of Uruguay, which became the first country in the world to legalise the sale of cannabis for recreational use in 2013. A number of US states have also voted to end prohibition.

Medical marijuana is also gaining ground in many European countries. Portugal and the Netherlands have decriminalised the drug.

South Africa's highest court legalised the use of cannabis by adults in private places in September, though the sale of the drug remains a crime.

In April, Zimbabwe became the second country in Africa, after Lesotho, to legalise the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

Reality Check: Has cannabis legalisation in some US states led to more users?

Nine US states have legalised recreational marijuana use while many more allow its use on medical grounds.

What are the new rules around cannabis?

Adults will be able buy cannabis oil, seeds and plants and dried cannabis from licensed producers and retailers and to possess up to 30 grams (one ounce) of dried cannabis in public, or its equivalent.

Edibles, or cannabis-infused foods, will not be immediately available for purchase but will be within a year of the bill coming into force. The delay is meant to give the government time to set out regulations specific to those products.

It will be illegal to possess more than 30 grams in public, grow more than four plants per household and to buy from an unlicensed dealer.

Penalties for some infraction will be severe. Someone caught selling the drug to a minor could be jailed for up to 14 years.

Some critics say the penalties are too harsh and not proportional to similar laws like those around selling alcohol to minors.

What are the concerns?

On Monday, the Canadian Medical Association Journal published an editorial calling legalisation "a national, uncontrolled experiment in which the profits of cannabis producers and tax revenues are squarely pitched against the health of Canadians".

There are also still some legal wrinkles to be worked out.

Canada has brought in new drug impaired driving offences, but doubts remain about the reliability of screening technology and the potential for drugged driving cases to clog up the courts.

Federal statistics indicate that about half of all cannabis users do not believe their driving is impaired after taking marijuana.

On Wednesday, government officials announced they will present legislation intended to fast-track pardon applications of people who have been convicted of possession under 30g (one ounce). There are currently some 500,000 Canadians with existing criminal records for possession.

The change in national drug policy has also created headaches with the US, where the drug remains federally a controlled substance.

On Tuesday, the US Customs Border Protection Agency said border guards will have "broad latitude" to determine who is admissible to the country.

Border guards may ask Canadians if they smoke cannabis, and deny them entry if they believe they intend to do so in the US.

Canada has also been rolling out signs at all airports and border crossings to warn travellers that crossing international borders with the drug remains illegal.

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A deadly blast ripped through a college in Russia. 13 people were killed, and about 50 were injured. This was believed to be a terrorist attack.

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A deadly blast that ripped through a college in Russia-annexed Crimea on Wednesday is being investigated as a possible terror attack, the Kremlin said.

Russian news agencies reported 13 people were killed and up to 50 others were wounded in the explosion at the Kerch Polytechnic College in the Black Sea city of Kerch. The Russian Investigative Committee said an explosive device rigged with metal fragments went off in the dining room of the college.

Russian national guard official Sergei Melikov told Tass news agency the tragedy was a deliberate "terrorist act" and said it was caused by an improvised explosive device.

"There were lots of corpses, corpses of kids, a real terrorist attack," the director of the college said, according to the BBC.

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, would only frame the Kerch blast as a possible terrorist attack and said Putin ordered a probe into the deadly explosion. Peskov did not reveal who may have been responsible for the blast or a possible motive.

The National Anti-Terrorism Committee's spokesman Andrei Przhezdomsky said the building was being inspected for other explosive devices.

The Tass news agency reported most of the victims were students. Some Russian media outlets said 50 people were injured, and Reuters reported 18 people transported to hospitals.

"There are already lots of people in the emergency room, and in the operating theater," a school employee said, according to Tass news agency.

Initially, emergency officials said the explosion was believed to have been caused by a gas canister explosion.

Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov and Russia's health minister were en route to the scene. Photos from the scene that were posted by Kerch.FM showed debris on the ground and the windows of the building blown out.

Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move that triggered Western sanctions and worldwide condemnation. Kerch is located on the peninsula where a bridge links Russia and Crimea, Reuters reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A deadly blast that ripped through a college in Russia-annexed Crimea on Wednesday is being investigated as a possible terror attack, the Kremlin said. Russian news agencies reported 13 people were killed and up to 50 others were wounded in the explosion at the Kerch Polytechnic College in the Black Sea city of Kerch.

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The explosion occurred at a state polytechnic college in the Black Sea city of Kerch on the eastern side of Crimea. Initial reports suggested it was a gas explosion, but Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee issued a statement saying the blast was caused by an "unidentified explosive device," and Russian officials said they were treating it as a terror attack.

At least 13 people were killed in the incident and around 50 injured, Russia's Investigative Committee, the equivalent of the FBI, said in a statement. The Russian state news agency, TASS, said at least 34 people were taken to two hospitals, citing medical officials.

Yekaterina Keizo/TASS via ZUMA Press

The Investigative Committee said it was opening a criminal investigation into the blast and was treating it as a suspected terror attack. The Committee said its early information suggested the explosion was caused by a bomb filled with metal objects. The majority of the victims were teenagers, it said.

The Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that President Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences to the victims and ordered emergency services to provide assistance.

About 200 soldiers and 10 military vehicles have been deployed to assist at the blast site, TASS reported, citing local military officials.

Video and photos published by local Crimean media showed people being carried into several ambulances at the scene, where some of the college's windows appeared blown out. Russian state television showed video of military armored vehicles driving rapidly towards the college.

Crimea has been under Russia's control since it sent troops to seize the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.

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An explosion at a college in Crimea has reportedly killed at least 13 people and injured dozens, in what Russia n counterterrorism officials suspect is a terror attack.

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The explosion occurred at a state polytechnic college in the Black Sea city of Kerch on the eastern side of Crimea. Initial reports suggested it was a gas explosion, but Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee issued a statement saying the blast was caused by an "unidentified explosive device," and Russian officials said they were treating it as a terror attack.

At least 13 people were killed in the incident and around 50 injured, Russia's Investigative Committee, the equivalent of the FBI, said in a statement. The Russian state news agency, TASS, said at least 34 people were taken to two hospitals, citing medical officials.

Yekaterina Keizo/TASS via ZUMA Press

The Investigative Committee said it was opening a criminal investigation into the blast and was treating it as a suspected terror attack. The Committee said its early information suggested the explosion was caused by a bomb filled with metal objects. The majority of the victims were teenagers, it said.

The Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that President Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences to the victims and ordered emergency services to provide assistance.

About 200 soldiers and 10 military vehicles have been deployed to assist at the blast site, TASS reported, citing local military officials.

Video and photos published by local Crimean media showed people being carried into several ambulances at the scene, where some of the college's windows appeared blown out. Russian state television showed video of military armored vehicles driving rapidly towards the college.

Crimea has been under Russia's control since it sent troops to seize the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.

This is a developing story.

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