Topic: California

After careers in human resources and business consulting, Marianne Bays is tired of the corporate world. The 57-year-old's choice for a change: trying to become one of New Jersey's first legal pot dealers. In January, New Jersey became the 14th state to ...
Medical marijuana is facing a backlash; civic leaders complain of an overdose of pot shopsThe vandals struck in the middle of the night, hurling Molotov cocktails through the windows of two medical marijuana businesses and spray-painting "NOT IN OUR TOWN" just before ...
Rolling marijuana dispensary targeted in California, police say it's illegalA California couple have converted a motor home into a rolling medical marijuana dispensary that has become the target of police. Stewart Hauptman and Helen Cherry have been on the road with their ...
Ore. Appeals Court: Medical marijuana from California not legal in Oregon, conviction standsThe Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that medical marijuana authorized in California should stay in California. Joel Berringer was convicted in Oregon of possessing of two pounds of marijuana. ...
San Jose City Council members vote to draft ordinance regulating medical marijuana collectivesThe San Jose City Council on Tuesday approved drawing up guidelines for the operation of medical marijuana collectives as a way to regulate the businesses and possibly bring in much-needed ...
Los Angeles-area medical marijuana clinic owner gets 6 years in prison in pot-profit schemeThe former owner of six Los Angeles-area medical marijuana dispensaries, including one store linked to an accident that killed a motorist and paralyzed an officer, was sentenced Monday to ...
California research studies show pot can ease muscle spasms, pain from injuries The first U.S. clinical trials in more than two decades on the medical benefits of marijuana confirm pot is effective in reducing muscle spasms associated with multiple sclerosis and pain ...
Supporters of Calif. pot legalization measure submit signatures to qualify for November ballotBackers of a California initiative to legalize marijuana said they would submit far more signatures Thursday than needed to qualify the measure for the November ballot.Volunteers intended to submit about ...
LA City Council gives first OK to law that would close most medical marijuana dispensariesThe Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday tentatively approved an ordinance to close most of the city's medical marijuana dispensaries, winding down months of debate on how to ...
NJ Legislature approves bill to make state 14th with medical marijuana; governor supports itThe Legislature on Monday approved a bill that would make the state the 14th to allow chronically ill patients access to marijuana for medical reasons.Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine supports ...
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