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L.A.'s medical marijuana mess [26-07-12]	The Los Angeles City Council is plainly out of its depth when it comes to regulating medical marijuana. This was already clear after years of fumblin...
Pot Legalization Is Coming [26-07-12]	At least some able-bodied Americans may soon be able to score a bag of weed legally without having to fake a knee injury. In November, voters in three...
L.A. City Council bans medical marijuana dispensaries [25-07-12]	In what could be a turning point in the city's seemingly unending battle to regulate the distribution of medical marijuana, the Los Angeles City...
Comparing marijuana legalization measures in Oregon, Colorado, and Washington State [15-07-12]	History was made as the Oregon Secretary of State announced that the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act turned in enough valid signatures to qualify for the 2012...
Oakland protests U.S. attorney's crackdown on large medical marijuana dispensary [13-07-12]	A day after federal prosecutors moved to shutter the country's largest medical marijuana dispensary, city leaders and other officials came to the...
U.S. cracks down on "world's largest" medical marijuana dispensary [11-07-12]	Federal prosecutors have filed civil forfeiture actions against an Oakland medical marijuana dispensary that bills itself as the world's larg...
Oregon likely to put pot legalization to voters, proponents say [06-07-12]	Oregon will soon qualify as the third U.S. state to ask voters in November to legalize marijuana for recreational use in a move that could put the sta...
Supreme Court ruling stokes Colorado pot debate [03-07-12]	They're not talking about the landmark health care ruling. They're talking about last week's Arizona immigration ruling, in which the ...
Chicago decriminalizes possession of small amounts of marijuana [27-06-12]	People caught with small amounts of marijuana in Chicago will be ticketed instead of arrested under a new ordinance passed by the city council on Wedn...
Life Without Parole for Pot? [27-06-12]	The United States government spends more than $7 billion annually to enforce marijuana prohibition in shockingly cruel ways, but the efforts have not...
Lawsuit Accuses Police of Ignoring Directive on Marijuana Arrests [22-06-12]	Nine months ago, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly issued a memorandum directing police officers not to make arrests for possession of small quanti...
Can Stop-and-Frisk Be ‘Mended’? [19-06-12]	As marchers in Manhattan protested the Police Department’s increasingly unpopular stop-and-frisk program on Sunday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg took to th...
Some Southern California 'nonprofit' pot shops make big money [17-06-12]	Many medical marijuana dispensaries have been making huge sums of money even as they claim to be nonprofit, according to court and law enforcement rec...
Would Obama boost his re-election bid by backing weed? [16-06-12]	The blogosphere has been abuzz in recent weeks over whether President Obama should legalize marijuana. Advocates argue that polls say a majority of Am...
Chicago Mayor Emanuel backs marijuana decriminalization [15-06-12]	Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he would back a proposal that would decriminalize possessing small amounts of marijuana, the latest major U.S. politic...
U.S. targets landlords in fight against medical pot [14-06-12]	The authorities are pressuring landlords to shut down the shops or face possible loss of the real estate through the unconventional and low-key us...
10 Reasons to Revisit Marijuana Policy Now [13-06-12]	For the first time ever, a solid majority of Americans supports legalizing marijuana for recreational use: 56%, according to the most recent Rasmussen...
Marijuana could be Barack Obama's secret weapon in this election [13-06-12]	Since his inauguration, drug policy reform advocates have tirelessly petitioned Barack Obama to have his "marijuana moment". And for good r...
Marijuana Should Be Decriminalized [07-06-12]	New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to change New York’s laws to decriminalize marijuana. New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Police Commissioner...
Feds attack California's medical marijuana trade-again [07-06-12]	Federal authorities opened the latest front in their war on California's massive medical marijuana industry this week, filing property forfeitu...
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