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Following recent raids, medical marijuana advocacy groups have called on President Barack Obama to withdraw nomination of Michele Leonhart to be DEA administrator. The following organizations have called on President Obama to withdraw the nomination of Leonhart if she does not end the attacks on individuals acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws and [...]

By SUE MAJOR HOLMES (AP) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Len Goodman can’t grow enough marijuana to keep up with demand. He is one of just 11 growers approved by New Mexico to produce pot for all of the state’s 2,000 registered medical marijuana patients, and his customers routinely wipe out his supply. Once a strain of [...]

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors moved Tuesday to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas of the county, which would cover areas with a population of 1.5 million people. The motion is the first step toward reversing the county’s 4-year-old policy on the dispensaries, which are allowed with strict prohibitions on their location: [...]

In what may be a harbinger of a disturbing new tactic on the part of police in targeting legal cultivators of medical marijuana, a Denver couple has been charged with felony child abuse for operating a licensed cannabis grow operation in their home. Joseph Daniel Lightfoot and Amber Brooke Wildenstein, both 29, were arrested after [...]

SAN DIEGO—San Diego County has created rules for medical marijuana dispensaries, joining governments around the state that are trying to control the spread of pot clinics. The Board of Supervisors on Wednesday ruled that dispensaries in unincorporated county areas must be located at least 1,000 feet from homes, schools, playgrounds and churches. Officials say that [...]

PORTLAND, Maine — The City of Portland has struck down a proposed moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries. The Portland City Council unanimously rejected the proposal Monday night. It would have prohibited dispensaries for six months and prevented patients and caregivers from receiving or growing medical marijuana. An hour before last night’s council meeting, a rally [...]

Mention medicinal marijuana dispensaries and people tend to think of either the giant operations in Oakland or the hippie-tinged forests of the Emerald Triangle up north. But sprayed throughout the state, in little towns where you wouldn’t expect such a thing, are hundreds of cannabis dispensaries that have a special challenge. In burgs like Galt [...]

Fourteen states and the District of Columbia have launched a medical experiment that doesn’t follow any of the rules of science. By approving the use of marijuana as a medicine — with varying kinds of restrictions — these jurisdictions are bypassing the federal government’s elaborate processes for approving medicines. That’s highly unusual. In fact, it’s [...]

HELENA — As Bob Marley music wailed in the next room, the makeshift clinic hummed along like an assembly line: Patients went in to see a doctor, paid $150 and walked out with a recommendation that they be allowed to buy and smoke medical marijuana. So it went, all day, at a hotel just blocks [...]

GREAT FALLS – Great Falls city leaders are scheduled to vote on whether medical marijuana businesses will be allowed to operate within the city limits. The city commission is considering extending a temporary moratorium on medical marijuana businesses city until next February. The commission also could pass an outright ban on marijuana transactions or growing. [...]