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Matt Young used to bust kids for smoking pot as a security officer in Calgary, but now it’s Young who’s trying to find a way to smoke marijuana in peace. That search almost cost him his life. Young, now living in Saskatchewan, is a former private security manager and amateur bodybuilder who wanted to be [...]

Maine — Seventeen groups hope to be among the first to open nonprofit medical marijuana dispensaries in Maine, state officials said Friday. Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services received 29 license applications from those groups before the deadline at 2 p.m. Friday. Some submitted multiple applications in hopes of operating [...]

Sitting across the table, at a Starbucks in San Clemente, Kandice Hawes is all business in black Capri pants, a fashionable top and a demure gray sweater. “Of course I smoke pot,” she says in a loud voice that expresses both surprise and amusement at the question. Holy smoke! I look around, worried someone [...]

Like many people, Ben Fudge starts his day with a coffee and a smoke.  But, it’s not a nicotine hit he’s after when he lights up first thing in the morning. The Oshawa man has been using medical marijuana for years to help manage chronic pain, after being hit by a truck when he was [...]

Council Must Order Dispensaries Closed, Moratorium On New Outfits The medical marijuana situation has passed the point of ridiculousness and is now firmly in the realm of the tragic.  Unfortunately, all indications are that Montana can expect increasing problems with crime, violence and outrageous behavior until we finally get a handle on our medical marijuana [...]

New Jersey — Look at other states and use the best model to get New Jersey’s program running this year. In January, New Jersey became the 14th state to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes. It was an affirmation of what thousands of sufferers of cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and [...]

A Charlevoix storefront sign placed in jest in 2009 proclaiming a marijuana shop was coming to town may have been the first sign of a coming debate over medicinal pot statewide. While that sign was a joke, communities creating zoning enclaves throughout Michigan to deal with a growing marijuana patient and producer [...]

Low rate of convictions and short sentences a lack of significant deterrent, police say The head of the Kelowna RCMP has lashed out at the courts, criticizing them for not being tough enough on people involved with marijuana grow operations, saying the lack of significant deterrents allow grow ops to proliferate. Kelowna RCMP [...]

Hemp in Tomelilla Support Pot-TV and Subscribe From the Pot-TV Archive. Originally broadcast on November 8th, 2004. Video of the Swedish farmer Thomas Jacobssons summer of 2004 hemp fields in Tomelilla. Ulf Hammarsten and Bengt Svennerstedt from the Swedish Hemp Network, "Hampanätet", prepairs hemp fibers in a machine made for linnen preparation. http://pot.tv/archive/shows/pottvshowse-3209.html From: PotTVNetwork [...]

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 [...]