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If a plan to regulate medical marijuana in California becomes law, patients would still be able to use concentrates, wax, and other extracted forms of the drug. State Sen. Lou Correa, a Democrat from Santa Ana, is pushing a bill that would impose new rules on the state’s notoriously chaotic medical weed industry. His approach has the backing of law ...

Los Angelenos will soon have a novel way to buy their medical weed. The city’s first medical marijuana farmers market is coming to town over the Fourth of July weekend. The event will take place July 4 to July 6 and is expected to attract as many as 50 vendors selling almost everything with weed in it, including ordinary weed. ...

Marijuana Policy Project is getting supporters together to push the Paul/Booker medical marijuana amendment. Essentially, it will block the DEA from interfering with medical marijuana. The amendment passed in the House, and will now go to the Senate. MPP is asking for your help by calling your state’s senators and urging them to support this new policy. Read MPP’s full ...

Marijuana coffee. Marijuana fruit drinks. Marijuana candy. Now add this to the list of weirdness that inevitably follows in the wake of legalization: a cannabis vaginal spray. Foria, a “sensual enhancement oil” made by a medical marijuana collective in Southern California, offers women an intimate, lubricated experience with their weed. The spray is a mix of cannabis oil and coconut ...

An amendment to a bill in Congress could soon make life much easier for patients and providers of medical marijuana in states where MMJ is allowed by law. It the legislation advances and becomes law, it would mark a major turning point for the medical weed industry in California and other states with troubled MMJ programs. President Obama has said ...

California medical marijuana patients should have an easier time getting their weed back if they’re cleared of the charges that led police to seize it. The state Senate passed a bill May 23 that would require police to return marijuana and paraphernalia to MMJ patients who are acquitted of charges tied to the seizure of the drug. The same would ...

An attempt to regulate California’s chaotic medical marijuana system moved a step closer to becoming law in May. A bill sponsored by state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a Democrat from San Francisco, cleared the Assembly’s Appropriations Committee May 23. It now moves to a full vote in the Assembly in the last week of May. California voters first adopted MMJ at ...

California’s public parks have always played stage to a bold clash between civilization and nature: tourists with smart phones and RVs lurking yards away from geysers and grizzly bears. But there’s another meeting of man and wild in the parks, and it’s one park rangers say is bad for both: marijuana. Drug cartels and illicit local farmers alike have turned ...

A decision by the Oceanside city attorney to pursue a medical marijuana dispensary has left hundreds of families with nowhere to turn for the medicine their children need. Connor Dalby, four, suffers from severe epilepsy. At its worst, he experiences countless life-threatening seizures. They started when he was three months old. “Connor had lost eyesight,” said his mother, Kelley Dalby. ...

Police in San Jose say illegal grow houses are becoming an increasing problem – one they’re not fully equipped to handle as their resources shrink and other issues take priority over weed. In March, the body of a 26-year-old man was found in a grow house in the Coyote Creek neighborhood. He had been shot to death. Police haven’t said ...