Topic: Medical Marijuana
<div id="subtitle">DC Council passes medical marijuana legislation, sends bill to mayor before Congress reviews</div><div><p>The D.C. Council has passed a measure to legalize medical marijuana, sending the bill to Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty.</p><p>Under the measure passed Tuesday, the nation's capital would join 14 ...
<div id="subtitle">LA begins laborious task of closing hundreds of pot dispensaries</div><div><p>Hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries are being told they must shut down to comply with a recently approved city ordinance in Los Angeles.</p><p>More than 500 letters were expected to be mailed Tuesday ...
<div id="subtitle">Rolling marijuana dispensary targeted in California, police say it's illegal</div><div><p>A California couple have converted a motor home into a rolling medical marijuana dispensary that has become the target of police.</p><p>Stewart Hauptman and Helen Cherry have been on the road with their ...
Oregon Supreme Court: Workers can be fired for using medical marijuanaAn employer is not required to accommodate the use of medical marijuana, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case that cost a worker his job, saying state law is trumped ...
Federal pot case in Colorado highlights worry among growers of medical marijuanaPot smoker Chris Bartkowicz thought he had hit pay dirt, bragging to a local television station he would make $400,000 off a basement medical marijuana operation in a well-heeled Denver suburb ...
<div id="subtitle">Ore. Appeals Court: Medical marijuana from California not legal in Oregon, conviction stands</div><div><p>The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that medical marijuana authorized in California should stay in California.</p><p>Joel Berringer was convicted in Oregon of possessing of two pounds of marijuana. ...
<div id="subtitle">Medical marijuana supporters submit signatures for Arizona ballot measure in November</div><div><p>Arizona voters may get to decide in November whether to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.</p><p>Supporters of a medical marijuana initiative submitted petition signatures Wednesday to the secretary of state's office to ...
<div><p>A small western Colorado town has become the first in the state to levy a city tax on medical marijuana, even though it doesn't yet have a dispensary.</p><p>Voters in Fruita, a town of about 11,000 at the foot of the Colorado National ...
<div id="subtitle">Wash. Supreme Court accepts case of medical marijuana patient fired for failing drug test</div><div><p>The Washington Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a medical marijuana patient who was fired for failing a drug test.</p><p>The woman is identified as Jane ...
<div><p>A proposal to create medical marijuana dispensaries in Hawaii has gone up in smoke.</p><p>The idea is dead because the House Judiciary Committee refused to consider the measure before a legislative deadline Thursday.</p><p>Committee Chairman Rep. Jon Riki Karamatsu says he was worried that ...