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Reporting from Amsterdam — Franco bullwhips a 25-foot-long plastic bag through the air, snapping it behind him, sending the tail sailing over his head. The bag looks like a balloon-animal anaconda and he’s the half-magician / half-matador who makes it dance. He’s certainly got the crowd’s attention. They watch as the plastic snake grows in [...]

To weaken the cartels, some argue the U.S. should legalize marijuana, let cocaine pass through the Caribbean and take the profit motive out of the drug trade In the 40 years since U.S. President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs,” the supply and use of drugs has not changed in any fundamental way. The [...]

Kyle Kelly had just paid $45 for an eighth of an ounce of pot at a Sacramento medical marijuana dispensary when a California Highway Patrol officer pulled him over on a routine traffic stop. The officer noticed Kelly had a copy of the West Coast Leaf — “The Cannabis Community Newspaper of Record” [...]

Insurance Agents Are The Latest To Cater To Colorado’s Budding Business While some Colorado lawmakers are instituting moratoriums or redesigning zoning laws to stomp out the burgeoning medical marijuana industry, the business sector sees opportunity.  It wants a piece of the pie – or the brownie, as the case may be. And [...]

Providence, R.I. — State health regulators have issued proposed regulations for the operation of compassion centers to dispense medical marijuana, but it could still take up to a year before the first center opens its doors in Rhode Island. Acting under legislation passed by the General Assembly last spring, the state Department of Health last [...]

Providence, R.I. — A Senate commission will soon explore whether Rhode Island should decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana and tax the drug, a path recently taken by neighboring Massachusetts. Commission members are exploring several questions that suggest an underlying skepticism with criminalizing marijuana, including whether existing prohibitions have decreased drug use, caused [...]

The Temperature Of The Always Burning Marijuana Issue Will Likely Rise In 2010. Officials from a group campaigning to put a marijuana legalization measure before California voters said they have enough signatures to qualify for the 2010 ballot. The possibility of marijuana being legalized in the state has riled area activists [...]

New Mexico — At the end of a year that ostensibly brought the most significant progress to date for New Mexico’s medical marijuana program, more than half of the 899 approved medical marijuana patients remain without adequate access to their medicine. Pot made headlines left and right in 2009. California struggled with an oversaturated and [...]

A Manitoba judge has cut a major break to a medical marijuana crusader found guilty of trafficking pot across Canada. Grant Krieger received a suspended sentence with nine months of probation Monday — a far cry from the jail sentence he feared he might receive and predicted would kill him. “Mr.  Krieger is not [...]

In 1996, when voters approved Proposition 215, the medical marijuana initiative, most Californians did not envision what’s playing out in Arcata. As reported in a Sacramento Bee story that appeared on our front page Monday, this Humboldt County town has become the legal pot capital of the country. Hundreds of medical marijuana growers supply dozens [...]