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California — Oakland inched toward a plan to allow industrial-scale production of medical marijuana, sparking a lively debate between supporters and opponents who filled the Public Safety Committee meeting Tuesday evening. The proposal crafted by City Councilmembers Larry Reid and Rebecca Kaplan would prompt the first major expansion six years [...]

Pro­po­nents and op­po­nents of Cal­i­for­nia’s Con­trol and Tax Cannabis mar­i­jua­na le­gal­iza­tion ini­tia­tive, now known of­fi­cial­ly as Propo­si­tion 19, are go­ing af­ter the African Amer­i­can vote.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against retail giant Wal-Mart for firing an employee who used medical marijuana. The lawsuit argues that firing an employee for lawfully using medical marijuana violates the provisions of the 2009 Michigan Medical Marijuana Act.

At age 17, sitting in the basement with friends smoking pot, Don Corbeil first noticed all the cameras spying on him.  Then he became convinced a radioactive chip had been planted in his head.  “I thought I was being monitored like a lab rat,” he explains. It never occurred to him that marijuana could be [...]

They’re lighting up joints in Bryn Mawr and Squirrel Hill after putting the kids to bed. At Abay, an ultra-hip eatery in East Liberty, pro-medical marijuana activists are recruiting and organizing new members over martinis. And in Harrisburg, some legislators are pushing for passage of a bill that would make Pennsylvania the 15th state [...]

In between Jay-Z and Lady Gaga songs on Redding’s hip-hop and pop music station, an advertisement proclaims that for just $149, a new doctor in town will evaluate a patient for medical marijuana. Dr.  Ahimsa Porter Sumchai’s advertisement would have been unthinkable until nine months ago, when President Barack Obama directed federal [...]

Alice Huffman’s explanation of the California NAACP’s endorsement of Proposition 19, the state initiative calling for the regulated legalization and taxation of marijuana, was well reasoned and smartly put.  But she was promptly pounced upon, smeared by a collection of out-of-touch, fear-mongering detractors, including “more than 20 African American religious and community leaders” headed [...]

LIVE streaming every weekday at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific – also available through iTunes as "NORML Daily Audio Stash" Between our coverage of the HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Awards in San Francisco, my trip to Idaho to help organize new NORML Chapters and to present on legalization at the public library, followed by my [...]

High. Welcome to our bring-your-own-bud Vapor Lounge. Whether in Vancouver or Toronto, without a doobie doubt the Storz & Bickel Volcano Digit is the Cadillac of cannabis consumption on the tables of cannabis cafe’s and chronic connoisseurs. It’s a geeky ganja gadget that appeals to both our love of high-end tech toys (think XBox360 & [...]

A letter I wrote last week was published in yesterday’s Birmingham News MARIJUANA: Legalize, tax it to fund Medicaid The recent defeat of the jobs bill in Congress and the possibility Medicaid services will be underfunded for the coming fiscal year spell disaster for the state’s poor. Pregnant women who depend on Medicaid will be [...]