California — The Los Angeles City Council moved Thursday to consider a controversial medical marijuana ordinance in early November, as a poll released by a national organization that supports marijuana legalization found that more than three-quarters of voters in the county want dispensaries regulated, not prosecuted and closed. The council action comes after a Superior [...]

Even as the battle rages over medical marijuana in Orange County, activists and advocates in California are busy gathering signatures to get as many as three different pot-legalization initiatives on the 2010 ballot. If one of these initiatives passes, California would become the first state to legalize marijuana and impose a tax on it, a [...]

Supporters of legalizing marijuana and officers charged with seizing it have different opinions about the drug, but they agree on one point: It’s a valuable crop. Just how valuable, however, is another point of contention. With the arrival of fall, growers of the illicit crop are racing to harvest the plants while law enforcement officials [...]