When Ellen Rosenblum walked into a gathering of some of Oregon's most ardent medical marijuana advocates, the new attorney general was greeted like an old friend.
After the Los Angeles City Council voted to ban medical marijuana dispensaries last month, the city has been moving to shut down thousands of businesses where they believe such shops are operating.
The first person to register as a caregiver under Montana's now gutted medical marijuana program has died in federal prison. Richard Flor, 68, died at a Bureau of Prisons medical facility outside Las Vegas Wednesday just a few months into a five-year federal prison sentence.
A Vancouver-area man who describes himself online as a “legal marijuana owner” is facing drug charges along with his mother stemming from a police raid on what the pair called a “medical cannabis” dispensary.
Similar to the continuing waves of education-related dispensary closures nearby in Colorado, Washington received its first round of letters from the DEA as 23 facilities were warned to close before being subject to federal enforcement.
Sheriff's deputies will have to deliver three quarters of an ounce of marijuana to a California woman if a Yuma County court commissioner gets her way.
Cypress Hill took the stage at dusk, a little before 8 p.m. on a stage overlooking Festival Pier and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. B-Real and Sen Dog have been producing their unique hip-hop rap hits, highlighted by B-Real's strong nasal delivery, since the early 90s. They opened with "Get 'em Up" from their most recent release, "Rise Up."
Hollywood is known for being a liberal town, where conservatives like Jon Voight and Chuck Norris seem outnumbered by a cadre of Clooneys and Weinsteins. So when it comes to issues like the Drug War, it would logically follow that the thrust of movies touching on America's relationship with cocaine, marijuana and any other number of illegal substances would denounce the government's war on drug users and vilify the DEA.
U.S. Attorney John Walsh issued letters this month to 10 medical marijuana centers throughout Colorado, ordering them to shut down or move because they are located within 1,000 feet of schools.