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Anchorage, Alaska — Every competitor now running the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will be tested for alcohol and illegal drugs on the trail for the first time in the history of the 1,100-mile race — a change defending champion Lance Mackey believes is directed at him. “I know for a fact,” said the three-time [...]

Police and city leaders have launched a new prevention coalition. Their goal is to get illegal drugs off the city streets.

Why decriminalize marijuana when drugs are central to many of the problems relating to gangs, teenage suicide, teenage violence and low academic achievement? Anyone close to the issue — teachers, police officers, counselors, and parents — can speak to this with certainty: Kids have been reaching out for guidance and direction for [...]

Medical marijuana rally

marijuana users get another victory. one more condition has been added to the list of diseases that qualify for the state's medical marijuana program. austin reed is here to show us how supporters celebrated the decision …

The big debate on marijuana, for both medical and non-medical use, is heating up all around the nation – perhaps nowhere more so than here in the San Francisco Bay Area.  I know how I feel, but I am interested to see how others from all corners of the nation – or [...]

I don’t know what it is with Maui legislators and marijuana, but in the past, it was state Rep.  Joe Bertram III who tried to have the state all but roll joints for the pot smokers, and this year it’s state Sen.  J.  Kalani English. English wants the state to go beyond legalizing marijuana for [...]

Providence, R.I. — A retired police officer and the proprietor of an organic eatery make an odd couple when it comes to trying to overturn marijuana laws in this tiny state, but Jack Cole and Josh Miller are giving it their best shot. Mr. Cole, 71 years old, is a veteran of decades with the [...]

Michigan — It’s not unheard of for a voter-ordered change in state law to require additional work by the Legislature. Constitutional amendments and initiatives do leave strings dangling, details missed. But the move afoot at the Capitol now to tinker with the state’s new medical marijuana regime has a different feel to it. This seems [...]

A House committee has tabled a bill to tax medical marijuana, likely stopping it from being considered during this year’s Legislature.

Christopher Frizzo of Royal Oak said marijuana helps him battle symptoms of his multiple sclerosis. But during a routine traffic stop Jan.  11, police took his medical marijuana and refused to return it, said Frizzo, 47. Although he was approved by the state to use medical marijuana, he didn’t register for a state-approved caregiver [...]