Marijuana News

Regina Garcia Cano, who has covered such issues as medical marijuana, pensions and gas drilling for The Associated Press in Illinois, has been hired to work in the cooperative's Columbus bureau.

Scotch Plains residents Brian and Meghan Wilson have made headlines this week for their fight to enroll their two-year-old daughter Vivian in the state's medical marijuana program.

Actress Amanda Bynes was arrested by police in her Midtown apartment Thursday night after officers caught her throwing drug paraphernalia out the window, law enforcement sources said.

TMZ reports that Amanda was arrested after police showed up responding to a call about a disorderly person at her apartment building.

The troubled actress was reportedly taken into custody in her New York apartment after a doorman called police saying someone was smoking pot in the lobby.

The panel's approval Thursday sends the issue into its signature-gathering phase, with a 2014 vote most likely.

Marijuana is the drug most often linked to crime in the United States, the U.S. drug czar said Thursday, dismissing calls for legalization as a "bumper-sticker approach" that should be avoided.

Brad Pitt as Floyd in True Romance. His notable cameo as a stoner later inspired the marijuana comedy Pineapple Express.

A woman smoking a joint at the Fill the Hill marijuana rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, April 20, 2013.

Christopher Edward Patrick, 29, 111 Turtle Dr., Allport pleaded guilty to delivery of a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

SB374 was approved Thursday by the Senate Finance Committee after the state Health Division indicated it could fund startup costs for managing the program with reserves in the medical marijuana registry account.

A Seattle City Council committee has approved zoning for large indoor marijuana farms in some industrial areas of the city.

The glazed eyes of America are glued to Denver in 2013 as politicians and potheads work to establish the nation's first legal, non-medical, marijuana culture in nearly a century.

Three Charleston area merchants have been indicted on federal drug charges as part of a nationwide crackdown on synthetic marijuana, a designer drug linked to bizarre behavior and health problems.

California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom likes to be out front on issues. As San Francisco mayor, he approved same-sex marriages in City Hall even though they weren't legal.

Northville Township police arrested a man and a woman on charges of possessing marijuana on May 16, according to a police report.

Dallon Nathaniel Lamey, 19, was arrested on suspicion of drug-dealing after an emergency medical team went to his home and found marijuana in plain view, Sheriff Mike Byrd said.

Police said Hedges would not initially produce identification or his real name. After they learned his name, police said they found he was wanted on an outstanding extraditable warrant from Rhode Island for the charge of first-degree failure to appear in court, a felony.

Measures D, E and F on the ballot in Los Angeles Tuesday would either tax marijuana dispensaries or limit the number of them to 135.

A customer is assisted by "Bud Tender" Erin Clowry, a member of Green Kiss Collective on Vineland Avenue in North Hollywood.