A group of conservative and liberal lawmakers are teaming up to tell the federal government to butt out of the legislative process and local communities about medical marijuana.
CANNABIS CULTURE - The debate over a Senate bill to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado stretched on for hours, and concluded with plans for a rewrite of the bill.
Medical marijuana activists filed suit on Tuesday seeking to block a new Los Angeles ordinance they say is overly restrictive and would force virtually every pot dispensary in the city to close.
Los Angeles authorities have gone after 21 medical marijuana dispensaries, arresting one owner and filing lawsuits and eviction orders against outlets.
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.”