They might be the only businesses in Colorado begging for their products to be taxed. But a number of medical-marijuana dispensaries say taxation is critical for their industry’s long-term health, and many say they’ve been collecting sales taxes for months — before a legal opinion issued Monday saying their products are taxable. After [...]

Los Angeles — The city council here could vote today on a measure that seeks to rein in the estimated 1,000 medical-marijuana dispensaries that have sprung up locally, most within the last year. Voters approved an initiative in 1996 to allow seriously ill individuals to use marijuana for medical purposes and a 2003 state law [...]

USA — Medical marijuana laws are having an odd effect on many employers: They’re dazed and confused about their obligations to workers who use pot for health reasons. Employment lawyers say employers are unsure about how far they have to go to accommodate medical marijuana users. Many question whether they’re even required to tolerate medical [...]

Rejecting Advice to Ban Sales, L.A.  City Concil Panels Endorse Patient’s Cash Contributions. Two Los Angeles City Council committees rejected the advice of the city attorney and voted Monday to approve an ordinance that allows marijuana dispensaries to continue to sell the drug to people with a doctor’s recommendation. The city attorney’s office [...]

Marijuana producers appear to be becoming more ambitious about the size of their crops – and planting them in public. As marijuana farms expand into multimillion-dollar businesses, authorities say the perpetrators are more likely to confront intruders with violence. “That’s the alarming part,” said Oconto County Sheriff Mike Jansen, whose department in June [...]

West Hollywood Enforces a Strict Ordinance and Eliminates the Drama That Plagues L.A. A few miles from Los Angeles City Hall, a small experiment in marijuana regulation has been underway for years.  While the state’s largest city passed a flawed moratorium, failed to enforce it, debated proposed rules endlessly and watched flummoxed [...]