Marijuana News

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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