Massachusetts lawmakers are considering a bill that would legalize the use of marijuana to ease symptoms of chronic and debilitating illnesses and regulate the centers that distribute the drug.
Michigan's medical marijuana law is so poorly drafted as to be unworkable, a coalition of lawmakers, prosecutors and Attorney General Bill Schuette said this morning, calling for sweeping new regulations and the closure of most, if not all, existing marijuana dispensaries.
A bill to repeal marijuana prohibition and end the federal criminalization of personal marijuana use is introduced in Congress for the first time in US history.
Lebanese anti-drug police on missions to destroy marijuana fields in the Bekaa Valley came under attack at least twice on Monday, the first day of annual eradication efforts aimed at the valley's deeply-embedded trade in hashish.
Three medical marijuana providers were arraigned Thursday in the first criminal case stemming from a series of federal raids that placed a chill over a once-booming pot industry and preceded sweeping changes to Montana law.
Synthetic marijuana products side-step US federal law and continue to sell in all 50 states, but unlike the real thing, overdoses leading to death can and do occur.
I remember, several years before Marc Emery came to Vancouver, walking into a room of activists with the intent of introducing the idea that marijuana prohibition was a human rights issue.