The Washington Department of Revenue has launched a statewide effort to collect sales tax from medical marijuana dispensaries - even as some prosecutors and the Health Department maintain such dispensaries are illegal.
Marijuana use by 8th, 10th, and 12th graders increased slightly this year, according to figures released Tuesday by the annual Monitoring the Future survey of junior and senior high school students.
CANNABIS CULTURE - The Senate of Canada has passed Bill S-10, which includes mandatory minimum sentences for marijuana offences. No this is not a drill. The bill will now move to the House of Commons for voting before it can become law.
US Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Dick Lugar (R-IN) Wednesday introduced a bill that would create an independent commission to evaluate US policies and programs aimed at reducing the supply of and demand for illegal drugs in the Americas.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - ’Twas three weeks before Christmas and in the East Shore, the weed was wrapped nicely, a major drug score. The buyer was waiting but police knew a lot, and busted two men with a trunk full of pot.
New Jersey Senate Democrats are pushing ahead with a challenge to the Christie administration's rules for the state's new medical marijuana program, despite a supposedly bipartisan compromise the governor announced earlier this month.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Footage of teenie-pop sensation Miley Cyrus smoking salvia out of a bong has boosted sales of the drug and ignited comments from euphoria-phobic Drug Warriors who would love to see the legal substance banned.
The cannabis industry has flexed its muscles in 15 states where it's legal to smoke marijuana for medical purposes. Now the industry is ready to go to work in Washington.