Indoor marijuana farm found near LA police station

Officials said an elaborate marijuana growing site was found in an industrial building 25 feet from the back door of the Topanga police station in Los Angeles, and three people are under arrest. Officer Karen Rayner said the pot was discovered Wednesday when a search warrant was served at an address adjacent to the station in Canoga Park.

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Couple arrested after reporting stolen marijuana

A man and woman who reported to police that robbers stole their marijuana are now facing charges themselves. The 32-year-old man and 29-year-old woman told police five armed men came to their Wichita apartment late Monday night and took marijuana.

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Alleged door-to-door pot seller picks wrong home

A 19-year-old Brownsville man is jailed on a drug charge after he allegedly went door-to-door trying to sell marijuana. A Brownsville police spokesman says Anthony Carrazco's alleged scheme went awry when he knocked on a police officer's apartment door.

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Report: Lincecum has agreement on pot charge

San Francisco Giants ace Tim Lincecum has an agreement with a prosecutor in his home state of Washington that could settle his misdemeanor marijuana charge, The Columbian reported Friday.

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Judge: Fresno pot shops must close until trial

Nine marijuana dispensaries in Fresno must shut their doors while attorneys battle in court over whether city zoning laws banning dispensaries can trump the state laws that allow them.

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Feds bring charges in Calif. pot-growing operation

Federal authorities in California announced charges Thursday against 18 people they said operated a lucrative marijuana-growing operation by converting Central Valley homes into high-tech pot nurseries.

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Colorado newspaper hiring marijuana critic

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.

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Cops: NY man tried to eat evidence after pot bust

Deputies say an upstate New York man has been charged with evidence tampering after he was busted for growing marijuana — and then tried to eat the evidence. Jeremy Wheeler and his father, William Wheeler, were arrested Sunday night after deputies said they found 116 plants growing in the son's home in Willet. Deputies said Jeremy Wheeler tried to eat some of the plants while being booked.

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SFPD on fog-shrouded pot farms: too much green

Socked in by coastal fog, gardeners in the city's Sunset District struggle to coax vegetables from plots rarely touched by sunlight. But recently, a certain crop has flourished behind closed doors.

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Sheboygan teen accused of trying to eat marijuana

Sheboygan prosecutors have charged a young woman with trying to eat marijuana as police pulled over the car in which she was riding. Jamie L. Salonen, 18, was charged Friday with misdemeanor marijuana possession and felony bail jumping. The criminal complaint said a trooper stopped her car after seeing the occupants weren't wearing seatbelts. It said the trooper saw Salonen move around suspiciously.

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Federal judge in Mass. drops Sullivan's pot charge

A reluctant federal judge in Massachusetts has dropped a marijuana possession charge against author and blogger Andrew Sullivan.

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Man accused of leaving pot in Ark. patrol car

Police said a man arrested on an outstanding warrant following a traffic stop was accused of leaving marijuana in the police officer's patrol car. A police report said Sgt. Chad Bradshaw arrested a 31-year-old man after stopping him Monday for having no tags.

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Mass. man: Lawyer parents knew I was drug dealer

Two prominent attorneys are under police scrutiny after their son, arrested on charges he was dealing marijuana from home, told investigators his parents knew what he was doing. Police found a small smoking pipe, scale and baggies in their bedroom.

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California sprouts marijuana 'green rush'

A drug deal plays out, California-style:

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California sprouts 'green rush' from marijuana

A drug deal plays out, California-style: A conservatively dressed courier drives a company-leased Smart Car to an apartment on a weekday afternoon. Erick Alvaro hands over a white paper bag to his 58-year-old customer, who inspects the bag to ensure everything he ordered over the phone is there.

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Pa. woman warned about gator finds pot lab instead

Police said a woman defied a warning not to venture onto the second floor of a Philadelphia-area house because an alligator was kept there, and uncovered an operating marijuana lab. She tipped police, who searched the house in Darby, just west of Philadelphia.

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Craigslist pot ad leads to pot bust

A man has been arrested after he allegedly placed an advertisement on Craigslist selling marijuana. Police said undercover detectives responded to the advertisement and bought a small bag of pot from 30-year-old Christopher Gray for $45.

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Ex-mountain bike champ Giove hit with drug charges

Former mountain biking world champion Melissa "Missy" Giove was ordered held on $250,000 bail Thursday after federal authorities said they seized more than 200 pounds of marijuana from a truck she was driving in upstate New York.

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Momentum builds for broad debate on legalizing pot

The savage drug war in Mexico. Crumbling state budgets. Weariness with current drug policy. The election of a president who said, "Yes — I inhaled."

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Canada's 'Prince of Pot' at war with US drug war

Psychedelic rock booms through The Vapour Lounge. In the store, young and some not-so-young people smoke pot through a variety of devices. And owner Marc Emery stands in the middle of it all, proclaiming his goal of defeating the U.S. war on drugs.

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Iowa man charged after allegedly eating bag of pot

A man has been arrested in the Iowa City area after police say he tried to eat a bag of marijuana to avoid drug charges. University Heights police said the man was pulled over early Sunday for a traffic violation. Police said the officers noticed a marijuana odor on his breath, and a green, leafy substance on his shirt.

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Pot group drops Connecticut chapter after arrest

A national marijuana advocacy group has dumped its Connecticut chapter after police say an officer threatened a state senator.

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Suspected pot dealers nabbed after tailgating cops

Two suspected pot dealers were arrested after police said the pair tailgated an unmarked police car. Police said 23-year-old Jonathan Gonzalez and 19-year old Felicia Deneen tailgated the police vehicle Wednesday and were later stopped.

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Pot advocates nationwide inhale, celebrate 4/20

Cannabis advocates weren't just using their high holiday of April 20 to light up — they were throwing fundraisers for medical marijuana clubs and planning their next steps to legalize the herb for medicinal use.

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Truck crash makes pot hole in San Diego house

Authorities in California say a man suspected of drunken driving crashed his pickup truck into a neighbor's house, creating a gaping hole that revealed a small marijuana farm inside.

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The medical marijuana debate is gathering steam in California, as two disparate engines are catapulting headlong down parallel paths that appear destined to collide in the distance. The impending collision could chart the future course on legalization of marijuana in America.

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More than 100 million Americans have smoked pot.

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A teenager who had been going door to door trying to sell marijuana early Thursday was arrested after he went to the residence of a Brownsville police officer, police said.

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Anyone who wants to talk to the Boulder City Council about a possible moratorium on medical-marijuana dispensaries should plan on a late night Tuesday.

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On November 5, medical-marijuana advocates filed a motion to void a state Board of Health ruling striking its previous definition of caregiver.

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In a telephone interview, Frank acknowledged he was present for the bust but denied knowledge that James Ready was growing cannabis.

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The right of Oregonians to use marijuana for medical reasons and also to obtain concealed handgun permits is being challenged by local sheriffs who say federal law prevents those people from packing heat.

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A teenage girl has learned a lesson about "tough love" after her father called police after discovering a marijuana plant sprouting in her bedroom closet.

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How many have tried it?

ok this is gonna be a simple poll how many of us have tried weed... and how many want to legalize it with all the new articles out there I figure this is as good a time as any to test the waters so to speak.

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The British Government's chief drug adviser has sparked controversy by claiming ecstasy, LSD and cannabis are less dangerous than cigarettes and alcohol.

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Atop a Glendale high-rise, a physician checks symptoms and determines if marijuana is the right course of treatment. It seems it often is.

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State lawmakers are holding a hearing on Wednesday on the effects of a bill that would legalize, tax and regulate the drug — in what would be the first such law in the United States.

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Jack Cafferty and readers sound off about the issues of decriminalization of pot, medical marijuana, and legalization/taxation of pot for any purpose.

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ith the Obama administration's decision not to prosecute medicinal marijuana dealers and users, even though they violate federal law, the country is "probably in the process now of legalizing marijuana," conservative columnist George F. Will said today.

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A court ruling Monday that L.A.'s ban on new medical marijuana dispensaries is invalid could have a ripple effect on other California cities. Sacramento and Santa Cruz officials say they may rethink the moratoriums they're considering on dispensaries in their own cities.

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For better or worse, our American Idiocracy has come to rely on athletes as national pedagogues. Michael Jordan educated the country about commitment and just doing it. A.C. Green lectured us about sexual caution.

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Barack Obama's government is today urging prosecutors to go easy on people who use or supply cannabis for medical reasons.

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The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday.

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here 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"

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Woman gets booked by police after calling them because her pot plants were stolen....

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Thanks Fox and Freedom Watch! Videos:

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Limited personal marijuana possession and cultivation would become legal, and the drug's commercial regulation and taxation would become an option, under a proposed ballot measure now being circulated for petition signatures.

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Police made an unexpected pot bust in east Nashville after a child accidently activated a keychain panic alarm. The alarm was activated inside a home on McGavock Pike.

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"You can get it to treat writer's block..." says one California resident who is legal to buy medical marijuana.

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AUSABLE FORKS, N.Y. -- A huge pot bust happened over the weekend in Northern New York. A State Police helicopter spotted hundreds of marijuana plants while flying above Ausable Forks, N.Y., on Saturday.

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