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Augusta, Maine — A task force charged with implementing changes to Maine’s medical marijuana law fine tuned its recommendations to the governor and Legislature on Friday, reaching consensus on several key issues but leaving a handful unanswered. The task force was formed by Gov. John Baldacci following last November’s vote to expand the state law [...]

Seattle — A push to legalize marijuana on the West Coast is picking up steam as Washington lawmakers and pot proponents in California and Oregon propose separate measures. The Washington state legislature will hold a preliminary vote Wednesday on whether to sell pot in state liquor stores, though even its authors say the bill is [...]

Entrepreneur John Lee thinks the pot business is ready for its own Amazon.com. The numbers back him up. Marijuana is California’s biggest cash crop, generating sales estimated at $14 billion a year. Thanks to the state’s increasingly liberal medical marijuana laws, more of that money than ever before is being spent legally. Which leaves sellers [...]

Most Americans are paying too much for marijuana. I’m not referring to people who smoke it—using the drug generally costs about as much as using alcohol. Marijuana is unaffordable for the rest of America because billions are wasted on misdirected drug education and distracted law enforcement, and we also fail to tax the large underground [...]

California — The Los Angeles City Council decided Wednesday to prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries next to residences, but rejected a proposal to keep them at least 500 feet away, which would have drastically limited the available locations. The council, however, put off a vote on the last contentious issue until Tuesday, when it will decide [...]

Nevada Law Enforcement Agencies Can Better Use Their Resources Thousands of Nevada parents are hoping that the threat of arrest will steer their kids clear of a run-in with the law.  A new report, however, shows that nationally marijuana use does not go down as marijuana possession arrests go up. In a study funded [...]

A group in Arizona believes that legalizing medical marijuana is next for our state, as New Jersey becomes the 14th state in the nation to pass such a law.

Was there ever a miracle drug to match marijuana? A few puffs on a legalized, regulated and taxed joint, and you’ve not only closed the billion-dollar budget holes faced by government but you’ve eliminated the economic driver behind much of the criminal activity plaguing the globe. Or so the sizeable and increasing population [...]

The city of Monterey is bracing for a legal battle after issuing a cease-and-desist order on Tuesday to a medical marijuana clinic that opened without city permission.

The Los Angeles City Council rejected proposals on Wednesday that would have required medical marijuana dispensaries to be at least 500 feet away from homes, voting instead to prohibit them from operating next to, or across the street from, residential properties.