A new restaurant in Denver is offering diners a slice of the high life. Gourmet Ganja, in the heart of Denver's medical marijuana district, also serv...
Vince Beiser | Posted 12.10.2009 | Los Angeles
Real reporting meets "Reefer Madness" in LA Weekly's cover story on "LA's Medical Weed War." The piece is a rare hybrid: part careful, thorough reporting, part hysterical, unproven allegations.
Los Angeles Times | Posted 12.08.2009 | Los Angeles
Seeking to bring the city's medical marijuana dispensary boom under tight control, the Los Angeles City Council decided today to cap the total number ...
Posted 12.08.2009 | Denver
DRAFT BILL FOR AN ACT 101 CONCERNING REGULATION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA Draft Bill Summary Colorado State Senate The bill creates a state medi...
Chris Romer | Posted 12.08.2009 | Denver
We need to propose a model that will not only destigmatize medical marijuana by working to keep it out of the hands of those who would only seek to use it recreationally, but more importantly to create a fair and regulated market that is best for the patients who can benefit immensely from it.
AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 12.09.2009 | Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council could vote Wednesday on a much-anticipated medical marijuana ordinance that would greatly reduce the ...
LA Daily | Posted 12.03.2009 | Los Angeles
Los Angeles City Councilman Ed Reyes says the city isn't like to see a law limiting the city's burgeoning medical marijuana trade until next year. Whi...
The Denver Post | Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver
Medical marijuana advocates released a poll Monday they said shows overwhelming support -- by a 2-to-1 margin -- for licensing and regulating cannabis...
latimes.com | John Hoeffel | Posted 11.26.2009 | Los Angeles
Dispensaries in Los Angeles could continue to accept cash for medical marijuana under a provision approved by the City Council on Tuesday, after it ad...
Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
Kids may seem an unlikely group to include in the medical marijuana debate, but some children with autism are reaping life-changing benefits from the ...
AP | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver
DENVER - The top cop in a California town that has become a poster child for a well-intentioned medical-marijuana law gone wrong has some advice for C...
Washington Post | Karl Vick | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
The shift is widely described as generational. A Gallup poll in October found 44 percent of Americans favor full legalization of marijuana -- a rise o...
Jessica Corry | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver
As the loss of the Rocky Mountain News still lingers, the focus now turns to saving the publications remaining. Essential revenue could come from the most unlikely of sources. Marijuana.
Los Angeles Times | John Hoeffel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Los Angeles
Rejecting the advice of the city attorney, two Los Angeles City Council committees voted today to scrap a proposed provision that would have banned th...
AP | STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 11.18.2009 | Denver
DENVER — Colorado is gearing up to officially tax and regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, a move lawmakers say amounts to legal recognition...
Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has issued a formal legal statement saying that medical marijuana is subject to taxation. The AP reports tha...
AP | DEBORAH BAKER | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver
SANTA FE, N.M. — Businessman Len Goodman owns a company that makes hand-painted art tiles, but these days his office desk is strewn with the raw...
Mason Tvert | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment
Stone is not alone in her belief that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. She has some pretty solid back-up among the UK's scientific community.
Posted 11.12.2009 | Denver
Colorado medical marijuana providers formed the Colorado Wellness Association Wednesday, a trade group that its founders hope will help regulate the i...
AP | DAN ELLIOTT | Posted 11.10.2009 | Denver
DENVER — A judge overturned tight restrictions Tuesday on Colorado medical marijuana providers, saying state health officials had ignored the ne...
Westword | Westword | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver
On November 5, medical-marijuana advocates filed a motion to void a state Board of Health ruling striking its previous definition of caregiv...
Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was present during his partner James Ready's marijuana arrest in 2007, according to a police report. Ready was arrested ...
Westword | Westword | Posted 11.06.2009 | Denver
During the emergency Colorado Board of Health hearing Tuesday that struck from state rules what, exactly, it means to be a marijuana caregi...
The New York Times | Andrew Adam Newman | Posted 11.05.2009 | Denver
AFTER Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced in March that he would end the Bush administration practice of frequently raiding medical marijuan...
Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 11.08.2009 | Comedy
Pot Side Effect: Spending money on rolling papers. Savitex Side Effect: Discovering that by folding old rolling papers just so, you can create lovely origami.
Posted 12.10.2009 | Denver