Jason Christ lit a bowl of homegrown marijuana outside the Great Falls Civic Center, not worried that the police station was right around the corner.
The store has a television lounge and a pool table, and snacks and acupuncture are free for customers who drop up to $130 an ounce on 16 varieties of marijuana. But a reviewer of the business warns the decor looks a little cliche, what with the Grateful Dead posters on the wall and the Mexican-blanket tablecloths.
Los Angeles officials are speeding up consideration of a new law to outlaw most new medical marijuana outlets after a judge barred a moratorium.
A new Obama administration policy loosening guidelines on federal prosecution of medical marijuana on Monday signaled to users that they had less to fear from federal agents but still left their suppliers to contend with a tangled mesh of state laws and regulations.
In one corner of Washington state, a 62-year-old rheumatoid arthritis patient could face more than eight years in prison for growing marijuana for himself and three others. In Seattle, meanwhile, a collection of grow operations serves 2,000 people with little interference from police.
Spokane police on Thursday raided a medical marijuana store, shutting it down, arresting the owners and warning similar operations to close, too.
Boulder County Caregivers offers 16 glass jars of marijuana with names like Skinny Pineapple and Early Pearl Maui, priced at $375 to $420 an ounce. There are marijuana capsules and snacks made with cannabis butter, such as rice crispy treats.
Colorado's state health board has rejected a move to limit medical marijuana suppliers to helping only five patients at a time, allowing dispensaries to continue to thrive in Colorado.
Rhode Island has become the third state in the nation to permit marijuana sales to chronically ill patients over the objections of Gov. Don Carcieri.
Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri has vetoed legislation allowing stores to sell marijuana to medical patients.
The push to legalize medical marijuana in Illinois has taken a big step forward.
A federal judge said he is considering a reduced sentence for a medical marijuana seller whose case has become a rallying point, but is bound by the law to impose at least a one-year term.
A federal appeals court in California is weighing arguments from a medical marijuana advocacy group that wants to force the government to retract its claim that pot has no medicinal value.
Medical marijuana advocates complained Friday that Montana's Supreme Court misread the law in ruling that the state's Medical Marijuana Act does not protect an employee from being fired for using marijuana.
A federal judge has postponed sentencing the owner of a medical marijuana dispensary until he gets clarification on the Obama administration's newly revised position on such cases.
New Mexico has approved its first license for a business to produce medical marijuana, but its name and location are secret.
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley criticized the Obama administration Thursday for moving to loosen restrictions on medical marijuana.
Eighteen months after New Mexico enacted a first-of-its-kind medical marijuana law, the state is moving gingerly ahead, mindful that the closely watched program could go up in smoke because it conflicts with federal law.
The White House won't say it explicitly. Neither will the Drug Enforcement Administration. Yet there is a whiff in the air that U.S. policy is about to change when it comes to medical marijuana.
Medical marijuana became legal in Michigan on Thursday, but smoking a joint could still get patients arrested because the regulations needed to protect them won't be ready for months.
Both sides in the debate over a Michigan medical marijuana proposal are sparring over TV ads, with backers showing suffering patients and opponents warning that California-style pot shops could open.
Medical marijuana dispensers that operate for-profit likely violate California law, according to guidelines that may encourage local police to join a federal crackdown against the enterprises.
Federal law does not pre-empt state law in a court battle over the licensing of medical marijuana, an appeals court has ruled.
The owner of six Southern California medical marijuana dispensaries, including one store linked to an accident that killed a motorist and paralyzed an officer, is facing federal drug and money laundering charges.
A man who was denied a liver transplant largely because he used marijuana with medical approval to ease the symptoms of hepatitis C has died.
The medical marijuana issue has little to do with helping people and more to do with making the drug legal for all those who want to get high and not get into trouble.
The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday.
The Obama administration delivered new guidance on medical marijuana to federal prosecutors Monday, signaling a broad policy shift that will mean fewer crackdowns against dispensaries and the people who use them.
Barack Obama's government is today urging prosecutors to go easy on people who use or supply cannabis for medical reasons.
The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday.
Federal drug agents won't pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration. Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Pre …
The Obama administration is set to make a sharp turn from Bush administration when it comes to state laws regarding medical marijuana usage, the Associated Press reported late Sunday.
At hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles, cash is changing hands, typically about $45 for an eighth of an ounce.
Pot-phobic law enforcement officers in California are trying out an unsettling new tactic.
Amid dense scrub oak and manzanita high above the Coloma Valley in El Dorado County, the marijuana growers were stocked to subsist in the steep, unforgiving terrain.
"You can get it to treat writer's block..." says one California resident who is legal to buy medical marijuana.
A pictorial essay on the growers, sellers and users of legal pot. Photographs by Robyn Twomey
When Irvin Rosenfeld, 56, picks me up at the Fort Lauderdale airport, his SUV reeks of marijuana. The vice president for sales at a local brokerage firm, Rosenfeld has been smoking 10 to 12 marijuana cigarettes a day for 38 years, he says.
Noted activist and author Jack Herer, "The Emperor of Hemp," is fighting for his life after giving an impassioned speech at the Portland (OR) HempStalk festival Saturday, Sept 12.
Two doctors are responsible for referring more than a third of the patients on Colorado's medical-marijuana registry, according to statistics from the state health department.
What can only be rightly described as an explosion of ganjapreneurship is currently underway in Colorado, sparked by the Obama Administration's new policy announcement in February, which directed federal agencies to defer to state law enforcement on the issue of medical marijuana …
Some doctors are giving out large numbers of recommendations for medical marijuana and now the Colorado attorney general wants the state medical board to investigate.
Authorities raided a church in the Elysian Valley area of Los Angeles Thursday after reports of pot sales at the venue. Craig X Ruben, pastor of The Family Church and owner of the Beverly Hills Green Cross said, "I think this is ridiculous.
Review of the book "Marijuana is Safer. So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?". A compelling argument based in the risks and statistics behind alcohol addiction as opposed to pot smokers.
Colorado's medical marijuana law was passed nine years ago, but some municipalities are still grappling with it as if it's brand new.
If you're confused over the term 'jury nullification', a prime example of such emerged from a courtroom in Boulder, Colorado last week.
Why opposition to medical cannabis may be unethical.
I can't believe a person in government would say such asinine things in an email that he must have known would become public. It's time to turn up the heat on lawmakers. Tommy Benton, Georgia, 31st district" "I am opposed to the legalization of marijuana.
CANNABIS could protect bones from weakening in later life, scientists said today. A study on mice showed that while properties of the plant can reduce strength in the young, it may guard against osteoporosis.
A string of fires attributed to indoor marijuana grows has medical marijuana advocates calling for government regulation and fire officials expressing concern.