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In "Mile Highs and Lows," we offer a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars, sterile dentists offices or a dope dealer's college dorm room. This week, William Breathes reviews The Hemp Center: The Hemp...

PHOENIX – Antelmo Vega-Cristin, 29, of San Ignacio, Sinaloa, Mexico and Efrain Plata-Jimenez, 23, of Acaponeta, Nayaritt, Mexico were each sentenced Monday to 24 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Rosenblatt. Vega-Cristin and Plata-Jimenez pleaded guilty on March 16, 2010...

MIAMI (CBS4) ― North Miami Beach Police Dept./CBS Police located and broke up 49 hydroponics labs Wednesday, netting more than $9 million in marijuana alone. Cocaine, guns and Oxycontin pills were all located by police, who arrested 42 people. "Operation Rake" was conducted by...

SELLS, ARIZ. — Like any young man on the Tohono O'odham Indian reservation on the border with Mexico, Clayton Antone can reel off the going rate for smuggling a load of marijuana into the U.S. "You get $2,000 for a 45-minute drive," Antone said. The Mexican and Canadian shiny pickup trucks...

The Montana Caregivers Network has canceled plans to have a medical cannabis clinic visit The University Quality Inn in Lansing on Sunday because of “bomb threats,” according to Jason Christ, the founder who is trumpeting his new Michigan Caregivers Network. The hotel’s...

New Zealand - Security at the new Supreme Court building in Wellington is being reviewed after a man scaled the building and attempted to hang a pro-marijuana banner. Police early last night arrested the man after he climbed a bronze screen at the entrance to the building. A Ministry of...

I'm confused. When I walk around busy midtown Manhattan, I often smell marijuana. Despite the crowds, some people smoke weed in public. Usually the police leave them alone, and yet other times they act like a military force engaged in urban combat. This February, cops stormed a Columbia, Mo...

The quagmire of medical marijuana continues to intensify. The exploding number of cards being issued by mostly traveling caravans of doctors who spend less than 10 minutes per patient prior to signing a card allowing the use of marijuana for alleged medical purposes is staggering. The impact of...

Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson says the first time he tried marijuana he knew "the government lied" about its dangers and the need to commit resources to keep it illegal. These days, Johnson says he doesn't smoke pot and never drinks. And his public policy group, Our America - The...

YUMA - The discovery of a suspicious vehicle led to the recovery of nearly 400 pounds of marijuana Thursday in Yuma. The Sheriff's Office said deputies located a Chevrolet pickup truck and noticed a strong smell of marijuana coming from the vehicle. An inspection led to a hidden...

SALEM, Ore. (Jun. 17) The makers of the 1930s documentary “Reefer Madness” would be furious at the news, but it likely will come as a relief to people with certain diseases and marijuana law-reform advocates. The Oregon State Board of Pharmacy voted Wednesday to have marijuana classified as a...

New Jersey's landmark medical marijuana law, which was supposed to be up and running by this Fall, may be put on a back burner until early next year. A compromise is in the works between Governor Chris Christie and legislative sponsors of the law that passed last January to put the law on...

Detroiters are one step away from a November vote on whether to allow possession of small amounts of marijuana. The Detroit City Council's Internal Operations Committee declined Wednesday to vote on amending a city ordinance that would allow anyone 21 and older to legally possess less than 1...

Sen. Rory Respicio yesterday revised and reintroduced his bill that would allow for the medicinal use of marijuana on Guam. Among the changes to "The Compassionate Health Care Act of 2010," which is now Bill 423, specific language was added to state that doctors cannot write prescriptions...

MEDFORD, Ore. — The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that a medical marijuana patient can have a concealed handgun permit. The court on Wednesday said Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters had no grounds to deny the permit sought by Cynthia Willis in 2008. Winters had argued the federal Gun...

"If somebody's gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody any harm, then perhaps there are other things our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems we have in society." - Former pot smoker Sarah Palin I usually quote Sarah Palin in an...

CALIFORNIA: A potential heir to the Samsung Electronics empire has been arrested in US after police found over 230kg of marijuana in her luggage. Lisette Lee was arrested by Federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officials at Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio. She was flying from...

MIAMI BEACH -- A local group will hold a news conference in front of Miami Beach City Hall on Wednesday, June 16, at 7pm at which it will launch a petition drive to place a marijuana decriminalization measure on the November city ballot. The Sensible Marijuana Policy Charter Amendment will...

One Florida Gulf Coast University student leader has resigned and five more are in the hot seat. They are all accused of smoking marijuana during a school retreat. Student body President Peter Ryther, student senators Rebecca Gwyn, Rafael Feliciano and Millie Ruiz, and Director Tyler Offerman...

McALLEN, Texas — A federal court granted bond to a south Texas police chief arrested last week on drug trafficking charges, but prohibited him from law enforcement activities, confined him to his home and shared few details of his alleged role in the scheme Tuesday. Sullivan City Police Chief...