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Los Angeles County's district attorney says he intends to prosecute owners of marijuana dispensaries that take cash for pot.
Colorado is gearing up to officially tax and regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, a move lawmakers say amounts to legal recognition of a growing industry.
Businessman Len Goodman owns a company that makes hand-painted art tiles, but these days his office desk is strewn with the raw materials of a new enterprise: fat, sweetly pungent marijuana buds.
A judge overturned tight restrictions Tuesday on Colorado medical marijuana providers, saying state health officials had ignored the needs of patients and violated open meetings laws while imposing the rules.
Oregon police have charged a man with drunk driving after he called 911 to report his marijuana as stolen but the dispatcher couldn't understand him because he was vomiting while on the road.
A surge in medical marijuana in California has left communities trying to regulate or ban the drug. This wine country town has welcomed a dispensary as a strong source of tax revenue during the recession.
Authorities reported a staggering jump in the number of marijuana plants seized in California's eradication effort, claiming a more than 50 percent jump over the previous year.
A small Northern California city has banned medical marijuana growing and dispensing, a move opponents say will bring lawsuits.
Voters approved a referendum making Maine the fifth state to allow retail pot dispensaries, but medical marijuana advocates say it won't become like California, where hundreds of marijuana shops have popped up and come under critical scrutiny.
The Colorado ski town of Breckenridge has voted overwhelmingly to legalize marijuana.
Jason Christ lit a bowl of homegrown marijuana outside the Great Falls Civic Center, not worried that the police station was right around the corner.
The store has a television lounge and a pool table, and snacks and acupuncture are free for customers who drop up to $130 an ounce on 16 varieties of marijuana. But a reviewer of the business warns the decor looks a little cliche, what with the Grateful Dead posters on the wall and the Mexican-blanket tablecloths.
Los Angeles officials are speeding up consideration of a new law to outlaw most new medical marijuana outlets after a judge barred a moratorium.
A new Obama administration policy loosening guidelines on federal prosecution of medical marijuana on Monday signaled to users that they had less to fear from federal agents but still left their suppliers to contend with a tangled mesh of state laws and regulations.
There are limits to being a crime victim, as a woman who called Saginaw County sheriff's deputies to report the theft of marijuana found out. Detective Sgt. Randy F. Pfau said the 54-year-old woman was arrested early Sunday after reporting two men had broken into her home in Brant Township, 80 miles north-northwest of Detroit.
Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get as many as three pot-legalization measures on the ballot in 2010 in California, setting up what could be a groundbreaking clash with the federal government over U.S. drug policy.
Authorities said a woman walking through security at the St. Lucie County Courthouse was found to have marijuana in her purse. The sheriff's office reported a 21-year-old woman was entering the courthouse Tuesday morning when a private security officer ran her purse through a scanning device. The scanner found a razor, a knife, scissors and padlock, which led to the officer to emptying out the purse. That's when he found a small bag of what appeared to by marijuana. A field test confirmed it.
An Ohio man who videotaped himself forcing his 18-month-old niece to smoke marijuana has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In one corner of Washington state, a 62-year-old rheumatoid arthritis patient could face more than eight years in prison for growing marijuana for himself and three others. In Seattle, meanwhile, a collection of grow operations serves 2,000 people with little interference from police.
The wildfire that has ravaged a national forest near Los Angeles has burned one plant species that authorities were happy to see go: marijuana, lots of it.
Spokane police on Thursday raided a medical marijuana store, shutting it down, arresting the owners and warning similar operations to close, too.
Machete-wielding police officers have hacked their way through billions of dollars worth of marijuana in the country's top pot-growing states to stave off a bumper crop sprouting in the tough economy.
A man isn't entitled to use Arizona's religious-freedom law to overturn his conviction for possessing marijuana while driving, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
Police jailed a western Pennsylvania man who was allegedly digging up a marijuana plant in his yard as officers arrived to arrest him on unrelated theft charges. Jon Beltz Jr., 23, is in the Cambria County Jail.
Dutch police who mowed down what they thought were illicit marijuana plants were red-faced Thursday when it emerged they'd ruined a research group's giant, officially sanctioned field of harmless hemp.
Fired British Drug Advisor Calls for Royal Commission on Marijuana DecriminalizationProfessor David Nutt, the former head of Britain's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), who was fired late last month by Home Secretary Alan Johnson for criticizing the government's drug policies as driven by politics instead of science, is now calling for a Royal Comm …
Marijuana Law Reform Is A Political Opportunity - Not A Political LiabilityLast January I proclaimed in the The Hill's Congress blog: "Marijuana law reform is no longer a political liability; it's a political opportunity." Ten months later it appears that an unprecedented number of state-elected officials are heeding the message.
Prison inmates find drugs in fruit donated by policeThe fruit — which was donated by the Edinburg Police Department — originally came from a produce truck from which officers had seized more than a half a ton of the drug, Police Chief Quirino Muñoz said.
Oregon man charged with DUI after 911 callHe then called 911 again to complain that deputies had not arrived, but the dispatcher had trouble understanding Hoover because he was driving and stopping several times to vomit.
Marijuana Plants Found in Baby's BedroomTUSTIN- A couple was arrested and accused of child endangerment after police discovered nearly two dozen marijuana plants growing all over their 1-year-old's bedroom.
California Medical Association Says Pot Prohibition Is A "Failed Public Health Policy"Members of the California Medical Association's (CMA) House of Delegates have endorsed a resolution stating that the criminal prohibition of marijuana is a "failed public health policy."
What would marijuana legalization look like?Advocates on one side argue that the result will be an economic boon as tax revenues rolls in and jails rid themselves of nonviolent offenders. Defenders of prohibition say legalization would be a nightmare of stoned kids, addiction and highway deaths.
Growers operated pot operation next to LAPD station for about eight months [Update]For about the last eight months, several suspects operated a sophisticated marijuana operation in a warehouse just 25 feet from the Los Angeles Police Department's Topanga Station in Canoga Park, police said tonight.
Couple arrested after reporting theft of marijuanaA man and woman notified police that robbers had stolen something from them at their Planeview apartment Monday night, and ended up being arrested themselves. What had been stolen? Marijuana.
The AMA Reconsiders Marijuana. Will the Justice Department Follow?More than 100 million Americans have smoked pot.
Tobacco-Related Health Costs: $800; Booze-Related Health Costs: $165; Pot-Related Health Costs: $20 Any Questions?Health-related costs per user are eight times higher for drinkers than they are for those who use cannabis, and are more than 40 times higher for tobacco smokers, according to a report published in the British Columbia Mental Health and Addictions Journal.
25 pounds of pot found in prison bananasEDINBURG — A police department's gift of fruit to a Texas prison turned out to contain 25 pounds of marijuana. The illegal harvest that was missed in an earlier search was discovered by inmates at the Segovia Unit unpacking the crate.
Marijuana Decrim, Frank Chopp, and the Case of the Missing BallsAccording to multiple, well-placed sources (both inside the Washington state Legislature and those observing), Speaker of the House Frank Chopp, through a lack of political will and leadership, is the legislator most responsible for the death of marijuana decrim in the last sessi …
West Hollywood's medical marijuana success story -- latimes.comAt list people can buy it in a nice and clean place
Tiring of the drug warTHIS week's paper examines international attitudes on the drug war, and argues that because of the cost, the difficulty, and the complications, many countries are wearying of it, including the United States:
1st US marijuana cafe opens PORTLAND - THE United States' first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration's move to relax policing of medical use of the drug.
Forum on decriminalizing marijuana set in EdmondsEDMONDS - Is it time the state ligthens up on those caught possessing a little pot?
First U.S. Marijuana Cafe Opens in PortlandPORTLAND, Oregon - The United States' first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test to the Obama administration's move to relax policing of medical use of the drug.
Marijuana moves into open in a 'HIGH' ski townDrug ordinance spurs debate among businesses, ski bums in Breckinridge.
Marijuana Moves Into the Open in a Ski TownHigh-altitude partying is a deeply carved tradition in ski country, where alcohol in the open and illicit drugs in the shadows have been intertwined for years.
Deputies facing drug trafficking, other chargesDeputies Wayne Bartley and Bill Mattingly were arrested Thursday on charges of selling marijuana, official misconduct, theft, tampering with evidence and criminal mischief, according to a news release from the state police West Drug Enforcement unit in Bowling Green.
The State of Play -- Federal Drug Reform Legislation in the CongressTen months into the Obama administration, drug policy reform in the US Congress is moving along on a number of tracks. Here's an update on some of the more significant legislation moving (or not) on the Hill.
The Nutt Sack Affair (part 493)-- Ben Goldacre on Drug Prohibition & Scientific EvidenceIf you wish to justify a policy that will plainly increase the harms associated with each individual act of drug use, by creating violent criminal gangs as distributors, driving the sale of contaminated black market drugs, blighting the careers of users caught by the police, crim …
Election Day 2009 has come and gone. Relatively speaking, this election was as insignificant as any off-year election is, as opposed to a mid-term election, but it still could have been an important year for the Libertarian Party, if we had simply bothered to show up.
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