DEA special agent Jeffrey Sweetin first said "the time is coming when we go into a dispensary, we find out what their profit is, we seize the building and we arrest everybody." Now he says the DEA is “not declaring war on dispensaries.”
CANNABIS CULTURE - A new California state-sponsored study has found that medical cannabis can reduce pain for patients suffering from HIV/Aids, multiple sclerosis, and cancer.
About two dozen members of Alabamians for Compassionate Care, a medical marijuana advocacy group, staged a march from Caldwell Park to Five Points South in Birmingham this afternoon.
With the Iowa Board of Pharmacy expected to rule Wednesday on the medical use of marijuana, The Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll has found 64 percent of Iowans think the practice should be legalized.
CANNABIS CULTURE - The spliff-shaped Olympic torch burned through the Pot Block, Vancouver's marijuana-friendly district, during the launch of the 2010 Winter Games on Friday.