Medical Pot

Hackers Anonymous Declare War on Marijuana Prohibition

Joshua Glazer | Posted 05.21.2012

Joshua Glazer

After our exclusive Anonymous interview, other members of the hacker collective came forward to reveal more details surrounding their plan for legaliz...

Lucia Graves

Republicans Overwhelmingly Support State Medical Marijuana Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.15.2012

WASHINGTON -- Nearly three-quarters of Americans and more than two-thirds of Republicans believe federal officials should respect state laws on medica...

Lucia Graves

Feds Should Reclassify Marijuana To Allow Medical Use, Governors Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.01.2011

WASHINGTON -- Govs. Lincoln Chafee (I-R.I) and Chris Gregoire (D-Wash.) on Wednesday called on the Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marij...

Report: Pot Arrests 'Skyrocketing' In California

| Posted 01.12.2012

This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's The Snitch. By Chris Roberts It's a fine time to be a criminal in California. Arrests in every ...

Lucia Graves

Marijuana Support At Record High

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.17.2011

WASHINGTON -- Fifty percent of Americans favor legalizing marijuana, according to a new Gallup poll, a record high. And those numbers, up from just 36...

Lucia Graves

Decision To Crack Down On Medical Marijuana Made In California, Not Washington, U.S. Attorney Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.14.2011

WASHINGTON -- The decision to crack down on medical pot establishments in the Golden State was a collective decision by four U.S. attorneys in Califor...

Carly Schwartz

Obama's War On Weed: White House Cracks Down On Medical Marijuana

HuffingtonPost.com | Carly Schwartz | Posted 12.11.2011

SAN FRANCISCO -- Three years on, not a single Wall Street banker has been prosecuted after a financial crisis rooted in rampant fraud brought the glob...

WATCH: Montana PBS Clears The Smoke On Medical Marijuana

Posted 10.25.2011

Medical marijuana has seen an erratic history of late: An appeals court in Michigan recently restricted access to medical marijuana there; Montana vot...

Last MMJ Business-Friendly Bank Closes Accounts

Posted 10.25.2011

Colorado Springs State Bank, Colorado’s last bank that was openly doing business with medical marijuana sellers, has decided to close all of those a...

Ryan Grim

Obama DOJ Flips On Medical Pot

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.31.2011

WASHINGTON -- Medical marijuana advocates are pushing back against a new Justice Department threat to raid and prosecute medical pot shops even in sta...

Colorado Medical Marijuana Rules Close To Finished

The Denver Post | John Ingold | Posted 05.25.2011

Medical-marijuana advocates and government representatives on Monday hammered out the final details of proposed new rules that would give Colorado the...

Denver Pot Growing Sites Could Be Allowed To Stay Put For Two Years

The Denver Post | John Ingold | Posted 05.25.2011

Denver City Council members reached a tentative compromise Monday over what to do with medical-marijuana-growing facilities that aren't located where ...

MMJ Red Tape Turning Teen's 'Miracle Treatment' Into A Nightmare

Colorado Independent | Scot Kersgaard | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Smith has a very rare life-threatening disease. He is 16 years old. He's missed about a year of school. A few months ago his doctors decided to t...

Colorado Medical Marijuana Dispensary Owner Asks State Supreme Court To Overturn

Posted 05.25.2011

A group of medical marijuana patients in Colorado has asked the state's Supreme Court to overturn two laws that regulate the medical marijuana industr...

Colorado Medical Marijuana: Nearly 2,000 Patient Applications Rejected Over Obscure Rule Change

The Latest Word | Michael Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Over the past week or so, medical marijuana patients across the state have learned that doctor recommendations for the card allowing them to use MMJ h...

Colorado Medical Marijuana: State Posts Proposed Rules

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 05.25.2011

DENVER — Marijuana sellers in Colorado could have to wear photo badges, and patients could have new limits on changing their primary dispensarie...

Adams County Bans Medical Pot Shops

The Denver Post | John Ingold | Posted 05.25.2011

The medical-marijuana industry has been booted almost entirely from Adams County, after the board of commissioners voted to ban such businesses in uni...

Colorado Springs Medical Marijuana Tax Revenue Helping Keep City Afloat

Colorado Springs Gazette | DANIEL CHACÓN | Posted 05.25.2011

While El Paso County deals with a lawsuit over a ballot measure to ban medical marijuana businesses, the city of Colorado Springs is laughing all the ...

Colorado Medical Marijuana Turning Up In Nebraska

KMGH | Posted 05.25.2011

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Authorities say Colorado apparently has more medical marijuana than it can use, and some of the excess is showing up in Nebraska -- i...

Colorado Medical Marijuana Ads

The New York Times | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 05.25.2011

COLORADO SPRINGS -- When it hit the streets here last week, the latest issue of ReLeaf, a pullout supplement to The Colorado Springs Independent devot...

Colorado Medical Marijuana Use Most Prominent In Mountains,

Colorado Springs Gazette | DAVE PHILIPPS | Posted 05.25.2011

The ski communities of Summit County, San Miguel County and Pitkin County are some of the youngest, fittest and healthiest counties in Colorado. S...

Medical Marijuana-Tracking Proposal Has Patients Fearing For Privacy

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 05.25.2011

DENVER — Colorado wants to set up a first-in-the-nation tracking system of medical marijuana purchases to deter people from buying vast amounts ...

Colorado Medical Marijuana Burglars Break Through Wall Of Adjacent Business

Colorado Springs Gazette | Posted 05.25.2011

Three people tried to once again break into a medical marijuana...

Colorado Medical Marijuana Patient Tracking Has MMJ Advocates Crying Foul

Denver Daily | Peter Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011

Medical marijuana advocates are concerned that proposed new regulations for the industry will result in patient tracking, scaring patients away from w...

Colorado Medical Marijuana

Denver Daily | Gene Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Two caregivers charged with felony child abuse for supposedly growing medical marijuana in the house where their kids lived are having their prelimina...