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How young is too young for medical marijuana?

Medical Marijuana

As more states legalize marijuana for medical use, one of the lesser-known repercussions is that sick children now often have access to it too, and the responsibility for deciding when it’s appropriate, the dosage and the monitoring is usually left solely with a parent.

 

87-year-old busted dealing pot

An 87-year-old man was charged with growing more than 400 marijuana plants at his Colorado home.

 

Pot shop ban advances in L.A. City Council

A City Council committee moved forward with a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries Tuesday, approving a recommendation to outlaw storefront pot shops in Los Angeles while allowing small groups of patients and their primary caregivers to grow the drug on their own.

 

Suburban Foreclosed Homes Transforming Into Marijuana Farms

Marijuana Houses

On a suburban block with six family homes, palm trees and views of the surrounding green hills, nothing at 110 Windsor Court stood out. Its occupants, who had moved into the foreclosed house a few years earlier, were quiet types. Until the noise from falling roof tiles alerted neighbors to a fire there one recent morning, and Stephen Snowden, who lived nearby, banged on the front door. Nobody was inside, but firefighters discovered that the house had been converted into a type of illegal business found increasingly in suburbia: a marijuana grow house.

 

Colorado Medical Marijuana Turning Up In Nebraska

Colorado Medical Marijuana Turning Up In Nebraska

Authorities say Colorado apparently has more medical marijuana than it can use, and some of the excess is showing up in Nebraska -- illegally.

 

San Diego drug tunnel had railcar, tons of pot

San Diego drug tunnel had railcar, tons of pot

A sophisticated cross-border tunnel equipped with a rail system, ventilation and fluorescent lighting has been shut down by U.S. and Mexican officials — the second discovery of a major underground drug passage in San Diego this month, authorities said Friday.

 

Smoking marijuana as teen may have lasting brain effects, study suggests

Smoking marijuana as teen may have lasting brain effects, study suggests

Teenagers respond differently to drugs than adults, and early use may lead to long-lasting effects on brain development, according ...

 

Pa. man lights joint to celebrate child's birth

Pa. man lights joint to celebrate child's birth

Police said a new father faces drug charges because he lit up a marijuana joint, instead of a cigar, to celebrate his child's birth at a western Pennsylvania hospital. Police aren't identifying the man found smoking the pot in a designated smoking area of Uniontown Hospital Tuesday morning, but said he'll face marijuana possession charges.

 

NY firefighter grew over 100 pot plants: prosecutor

NY firefighter grew over 100 pot plants: prosecutor

A city firefighter was caught "red-handed" tending more than 100 marijuana plants - each worth $5,000 - in the basement of a Queens house, a prosecutor said Monday.

Senh: I thought firefighters make a decent amount of money. But I guess people always want more money.

 

Feds: Woman took 506 pounds of pot to Ohio on jet

Feds: Woman took 506 pounds of pot to Ohio on jet

A California woman traveling with a bodyguard on a private jet was arrested at an Ohio airport with 506 pounds of marijuana stashed in 13 suitcases, federal authorities said ...

 

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