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 [...]

Maryland — When Del. Dan K. Morhaim is in the emergency room, he can administer cocaine to anesthetize a patient. But he cannot write a prescription for marijuana as a pain reliever or nausea remedy. That’s just one of the flaws in Maryland’s narrow medical marijuana law that Morhaim (D-Baltimore), an emergency physician at Sinai [...]

Saginaw City Hall was packed Monday with protesters calling for the City Council to vote down a six-month moratorium to freeze medical marijuana production and use while leaders rework zoning laws for the drug. The council later postponed the decision.  They will vote at a 6:30 p.m.  Monday, Jan.  11, [...]