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4 min ago | The Las Vegas Sun

Medical marijuana bill clears Senate Finance panel

SB374 was approved Thursday by the Senate Finance Committee after the state Health Division indicated it could fund startup costs for managing the program with reserves in the medical marijuana registry account.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Las Vegas, NV

4 min ago | KNDO

Seattle council panel OKs marijuana growing zones

A Seattle City Council committee has approved zoning for large indoor marijuana farms in some industrial areas of the city.

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Related Topix: Publishing, Media, Seattle Times

1 hr ago | 303 Magazine

Mile High Times: Legal Marijuana, So Far

The glazed eyes of America are glued to Denver in 2013 as politicians and potheads work to establish the nation's first legal, non-medical, marijuana culture in nearly a century.

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Related Topix: US Governors, John Hickenlooper, Denver, CO

5 hrs ago | Post and Courier

3 Lowcountry store owners indicted on federal charges of selling synthetic marijuana

Three Charleston area merchants have been indicted on federal drug charges as part of a nationwide crackdown on synthetic marijuana, a designer drug linked to bizarre behavior and health problems.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Charleston, SC, North Charleston, SC, Summerville, SC

6 hrs ago | Townhall

Debra J. Saunders: Newsom Turns a New Leaf on Marijuana

California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom likes to be out front on issues. As San Francisco mayor, he approved same-sex marriages in City Hall even though they weren't legal.

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Related Topix: Drugs, San Francisco, CA, Gavin Newsom, Opinion

10 hrs ago | Patch.com

Police Arrest 2 on Marijuana Possession Charges

Northville Township police arrested a man and a woman on charges of possessing marijuana on May 16, according to a police report.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Sunherald.com

St. Martin teen faces drug, harassment charges after pot found in medical call

Dallon Nathaniel Lamey, 19, was arrested on suspicion of drug-dealing after an emergency medical team went to his home and found marijuana in plain view, Sheriff Mike Byrd said.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Jackson County, MS

The Day

Marijuana joint leads to arrest of fugitive in Norwich

Police said Hedges would not initially produce identification or his real name. After they learned his name, police said they found he was wanted on an outstanding extraditable warrant from Rhode Island for the charge of first-degree failure to appear in court, a felony.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Norwich, CT

NBC Los Angeles

Voters Approve Medical Marijuana Measure D

Measures D, E and F on the ballot in Los Angeles Tuesday would either tax marijuana dispensaries or limit the number of them to 135.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA

LA Daily News

Medical Marijuana: L.A. voters approve measure to limit number of dispensaries to 135

A customer is assisted by "Bud Tender" Erin Clowry, a member of Green Kiss Collective on Vineland Avenue in North Hollywood.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA, North Hollywood (Los Angeles, CA), North-Hollywood, CA, Health

WLTX-TV Columbia

SC Lawmaker Proposes Legalized Medical Marijuana

Did you know that according to South Carolina law, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control has the authority to obtain and distribute medical marijuana? Now one House lawmaker says it's time for South Carolina to catch up with other states legalizing the drug.

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Related Topix: Drugs, South Carolina, South Carolina Government

Reuters

Los Angeles voters OK move to curtail medical marijuana outlets

Voters strongly supported a ballot measure to sharply curtail the number of medical marijuana dispensaries permitted to operate in Los Angeles while boosting taxes on the sale of pot for health reasons, election returns early on Wednesday showed.

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Related Topix: Drugs

Times Observer

Marijuana

Kathy Kane opposes pot legalization, as does Tom her boss because it is a gateway drug.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Pennsylvania, Hardcore, Congress, Warren, PA

Daily Press & Argus

Michigan high court's medical marijuana ruling a 'big shakeup', attorney says

Medical marijuana patients can't be prosecuted for merely driving with the drug in their system, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Grand Traverse County, MI

LA Daily News

Medical marijuana measures: L.A. voters backing council on plan to regulate dispensaries

Voters are saying they want the city of L.A. to limit the number of medical marijuana dispensaries that will be allowed to operate.

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Related Topix: Health

The Press-Enterprise

Medical Marijuana: Another try at a legislative cure

If two state laws can't settle the problems with the distribution and sale of medical marijuana in California, perhaps a third or fourth one one will.

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Related Topix: California, California Government, Sacramento, CA

New Hampshire Public Radio -

Why N.H.'s Medical Marijuana Bill Doesn't Provide For P.T.S.D. Patients

Thursday, the New Hampshire Senate will vote on a bill to approve the use of medical marijuana.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Life, Veteran Affairs, Maggie Hassan, US Governors, University of Arizona

GPB.org

Go East, Young Marijuana Dealer

Chuck used to sell marijuana in California. But the legalization of medical marijuana in the state meant he was suddenly competing against hundreds of marijuana dispensaries.

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Related Topix: Washington DC

KEPR CBS 19

Veterinarian: More marijuana means more poisoned dogs

Last month, Seattle resident Katherine Evans took her dog Abby on a long walk through the Arboretum and Montlake Playground.

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Related Topix: Ravenna (Seattle, WA), West Seattle (Seattle, WA), Rainier Valley (Seattle, WA), Seattle, WA, Greenlake (Seattle, WA)

WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg

L.A. voters limit number of medical marijuana clinics

Proposition D caps the number of pot clinics in the city at 135, far below the roughly 1,000 that operated several years ago.

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Related Topix: Drugs