
The California Supreme Court clarified the state's medical marijuana law yesterday,
deciding unanimously that individual suppliers can be prosecuted even when dealing to patients with doctor approval. Sellers, who are not caretakers, or fellow medical marijuana cooperative members, will not be protected from the law.
Patients will most likely turn exclusively to
marijuana collectives and cooperatives to get their fill.

The number of annual marijuana arrests have been setting all-time records lately. Sales and trafficking aside, there are more possession charges nationally than violent crimes combined. Maybe there are a lot more smokers than violent people, or it could be prosecuted disproportionately.

Ruh roh! Looks like Mom found somebody's stash. Here comes the maternal rebuke!

The economic downturn has forced many people to save money on food in unconventional ways, from
reinventing leftovers to organizing
food swaps. However, one man may have crossed the line when it comes to creativity.
Shawn Pannullo was arrested in Vero Beach, FL, for
trying to pay for his McDonald's meal with pot.

He may have been Governor Moonbeam in the '70s, but today California Attorney General Jerry Brown
has cracked down on the state's pot clubs. When California legalized medical marijuana 10 years ago, medical dispensaries started popping up, only to see profits as high as a kite.
AG Brown said, "The voters wanted medical marijuana dispensaries to be used for seriously ill patients and their caregivers — not as million-dollar businesses."

A booming business in Canada's British Columbia allows entrepreneurs to rake in $80,000 a year tax-free while keeping their day jobs. So what's the magic product? Marijuana, of course!

"Above the Influence" recently released
an anti-drug ad featuring a talking dog and his pot smoking best friend, Aubrey. In the ad, the dog corners Aubrey in the kitchen to bark at her for her irresponsible drug use. Confrontational much?

We all know that smoking pot regularly just isn't good for our health. It can impair learning, affect memory retention and retrieval, and cause perceptual abnormalities (where you think you hear or see something that isn't there). The smoke from marijuana is also linked to
lung cancer, and now
research shows that chronic pot smoking can raise a person's risk of a heart attack or stroke.

Leave her alone. She's
gonna quit when she starts teething, OK?
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Longtime Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank announced on Real Time this weekend that he plans to "file a bill as soon as we go back to
remove all penalties for small amounts of marijuana." Frank said, "I wanted to do it for a long time. I filed it in the state legislature in the '70s.