A townhouse on North Capitol Street in Northwest Washington, with unobstructed views of the U.S. Capitol from the sidewalk, was recently painted bright blue.
Despite a last-minute plea for an injunction filed by Dacono's three medical marijuana dispensaries with Weld County courts, a judge declined to grant the request and the shops were all forced to close their doors on Monday, December 31 -- six months after the tiny town's city council enacted a ban on medical marijuana centers.
Massachusetts voters may have enthusiastically approved the legalization of medical marijuana, but that has not stopped communities around the state from rushing to amend their zoning regulations to make sure marijuana dispensaries are banned or restricted in their towns.
A West Hollywood medical marijuana dispensary announced this week that it provides free cannabis to military veterans and participates in a range of community service activities.
In some ways, 2012 has been a year of dramatic, exciting change in drug policy, as the edifice of global drug prohibition appears to crumble before our eyes.
Medical marijuana entrepreneur Brionne Corbray, whose dispensaries were raided last year, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to five years of probation and fined $25,000, but he avoided prison time.
For more than six years, the federal government watched quietly as Harborside Medical Center grew to become the nation's largest medical marijuana dispensary despite knowing that its operations were illegal under federal law.
A mother threatened with having her children taken away because her husband has medical marijuana plants believes the Ministry of Child and Family Development has quietly offered her an olive branch by paying the cost of air testing in her home.