Marijuana

Blaze reveals pot-growing operation at three homes

By Anita Creamer - Updated: Monday, May 13 2013 - 6:32 am

Five people were arrested after a house fire in the 6000 block of Laguna Villa Way in Elk Grove on Saturday morning led investigators to the discovery of three residential marijuana growing operations, Elk Grove police said.

High court sides with cities wishing to ban pot shops

By Denny Walsh - Updated: Tuesday, May 7 2013 - 8:06 am

Local governments in California may ban the manufacture, distribution and sale of medical marijuana within their boundaries, even though state law allows those activities under certain circumstances, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday.

California lawmakers consider pot regulations

By Peter Hecht - Updated: Sunday, April 28 2013 - 11:45 am

Colorado has the nation's most meticulously regulated medical marijuana industry. Washington has the first-ever blood-level standard for driving while high.

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Colorado divided over pot tourism

By Rob Hotakainen - Updated: Saturday, April 20 2013 - 8:32 pm

DENVER – As marijuana users prepared for their unofficial national holiday today, Denver got a head start, with local promoters trying to showcase Colorado as a state that welcomes pot-smoking tourists after voters legalized the drug in November.

For first time, majority of Americans back legal pot

By Rob Hotakainen - Updated: Tuesday, April 16 2013 - 2:44 pm

Just five months after Washington state and Colorado voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use, a poll released Thursday found that a majority of Americans now agree and say it should not be illegal to smoke the drug.

Ex-world leaders press U.S. to alter drug policy

By Tim Johnson - Published: Saturday, March 9 2013 - 12:00 am

MEXICO CITY – Three former heads of state are urging the United States to engage in a serious discussion of drug legalization, saying its counternarcotics policies are becoming untenable in the wake of voter approval last fall of measures that legalized the recreational use of marijuana in Washington state and Colorado.

Field Poll: California voters favor legalizing pot for recreational use

By Peter Hecht - Updated: Friday, March 29 2013 - 3:55 pm

California voters favor legalizing pot for recreational use, strongly support the existence of medical marijuana dispensaries and want the feds to butt out of the California cannabis business.