Arizona is the only state where medical-marijuana patients can face felony charges if they use or possess it on a college campus

An Arizona State University student is asking an appeals court to overturn the law that makes it illegal for him to have physician-recommended medical marijuana in his dorm room.

Andre Maestas, 20, an ASU junior and medical-marijuana cardholder, was arrested in 2014 and charged with a felony for having 0.6 grams of weed in his room on campus, roughly the equivalent of one joint.

He is the first to challenge a 2012 statute banning medical marijuana on state university campuses, which the Legislature passed two years after Arizona voters approved a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana.

I attended college from the age of 24-28. I was a ‘non-traditional student’ as the faculty always reminded me, which always seemed like a passive aggressive form of age discrimination. It was bad enough that I couldn’t relate to most of my classmates because they had barely moved out of their parents house and didn’t have the life experience that I had accumulated up to that point. But college was still a very fun time.

In October of this year, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the Medical Marijuana and Safety Act (Assembly Bills 266 and 243 and Senate Bill 643, hereafter the MMRSA). The MMRSA finally regulates California’s medical marijuana industry at the state level almost 20 years after the Compassionate Use Act made medical marijuana legal under state law.

A group of marijuana advocates in the state of Michigan are extending a petition deadline they had set for themselves in order to boost their chances of getting a marijuana-legalization question on the ballot next November, according to the Detroit Free Press. The group, known as MILegalize, is trying to gather 252,000 signatures before June in order to make the ballot.

The group said that it is in stable financial condition, though it only had $500,000 on the books. One of the ways that funding level could work out could be if most of the work is done by volunteers, which is the plan for the advocates. At least one activist plans on driving around the state in a motor-home while broadcasting a radio show of his live in order to gather 5,000 signatures in eight days.

Sensation seeking is a personality trait that describes a person's tendency to seek out novel and exciting experiences, and a high level of sensation seeking has been implicated as a risk factor for addiction. According to a report today at the annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, in Hollywood, Florida, sensation seeking is related to reward sensitivity, which is a trait that characterizes how rewarding a person finds different experiences. Further, reward sensitivity is itself related to cannabis use, and partially explains the relationship between it and sensation seeking.

DETROIT - Some Detroit pastors are on a mission to wipe out weed dispensaries in the city.

They say they have had enough of the smell, the addition crime and what it’s doing to Detroit's youth.

That is why the Detroit Coalition of Concerned Pastors is pushing the city council to shut down the nearly 200 medical marijuana dispensaries that now line city streets.

"We don't need this in our community, period," said Pastor Marvin Winans.

"The state of Michigan didn't authorize any of them to open and neither did the city of Detroit," said Pastor Darell Reed. "And they are popping up all over the place. It's a problem and a nuisance."

Melissa Etheridge is known around the globe as a songwriting musician who’s earned all the badges of celebrity honor. With two Grammys, millions of albums sold and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she’s achieved a type of luminary status that generally comes with a team of PR specialists warning against saying the wrong thing and causing a media frenzy that tarnishes an otherwise solid-gold image – like advocating for cannabis.

America's drugs tsar insists addicts should be treated like cancer patients, not criminals.

The radical new policy would fly in the face of 40 years of anti-narcotics policy in America, which has focused on justice rather than treatment.

However, Michael Botticelli - a former addict himself - claims that approach was 'all wrong' and the White House needs to dramatically transform its approach to the issue if it is to trigger genuine change.

'We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people,' Botticelli remarked bluntly in an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday. 

Now it's possible to tote your smoke in style (and discreetly).

More and more states are legalizing marijuana, making it less stigmatized in recent years — and companies are responding by coming up with innovative ways for people to enjoy it. The latest isAnnaBis (pronounced "anna-bee"), a fashion brand specializing in stylish bags for your stash.