Topic: United States
Medical marijuana proponents seek expansion of Oregon's program, creation of pot dispensariesThe Obama administration's decision not to interfere in states' medical marijuana laws has emboldened a citizens' initiative to get the state of Oregon involved in providing the drug for residents who ...
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 ...
LA City Council postpones pot ordinance vote that could close hundreds of dispensariesThe Los Angeles City Council delayed a vote Wednesday on a medical marijuana ordinance that could close hundreds of pot dispensaries across the city.The council asked planning officials to return ...
The Los Angeles city council could vote on a much-anticipated medical marijuana ordinance Wednesday, ending a bottleneck that resulted in hundreds of pot dispensaries cropping up across the city.The draft ordinance would provide guidelines for the nation's second-largest city that would greatly ...
Los Angeles City Council prepares to vote on medical marijuana ordinanceThe Los Angeles city council could vote on a much-anticipated medical marijuana ordinance Wednesday, ending a bottleneck that resulted in hundreds of pot dispensaries cropping up across the city.The draft ordinance would ...
Donated 'weed,' snacks and old cafe provide social outlet for Oregon medical marijuana usersAt the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a " Allen St. Pierre, spokesman for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Past the security man and his pit bull and through a haze of eye-watering smoke, two youths load up a pipe next to a row of shiny glass jars with two dozen varieties of marijuana bud displayed like ...
Colo. medical marijuana dispensaries will have to start paying sales tax following AG's rulingColorado is gearing up to officially tax and regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, a move lawmakers say amounts to legal recognition of a growing industry.The state Attorney General John Suthers ...
LA County's top prosecutor says he will bust marijuana dispensaries that take cash for potLos Angeles County's district attorney says he intends to prosecute owners of marijuana dispensaries that take cash for pot.District Attorney Steve Cooley said Tuesday he believes state law ...
In New Mexico, first to license medical pot producers, program is off to slow, cautious startBusinessman Len Goodman owns a company that makes hand-painted art tiles, but these days his office desk is strewn with the raw materials of a new enterprise: ...