Marin County sheriff’s deputies who raided a Northwest Marin ranchland tract Thursday found 350 5-foot-tall marijuana plants thriving in a lush two-acre grove fed by a tributary of Walker Creek.

No suspects were arrested during the bust by about a dozen deputies on the department’s Marijuana Eradication Team.

About 100 pounds of fertilizer was removed from the site, including bags that were spilling into a stream that flows into Walker Creek, home to salmon and steelhead. No immediate assessment of environmental damage was available.

Owners of the 360-acre Cerini Ranch on the 3000 block of Tomales-Petaluma Road near Tomales alerted deputies about a possible pot grow on their property, and the plot has been monitored but no suspects identified.

Db3’s ZootDrops  come in two flavors: Yippee Ki-Yay which includes caffeine, and Kickback made with chamomile. The flavored THC-infused liquid is packaged in small discreet bottles and can be stirred into a beverage or consumed straight. Selling the drops, and sister-products ZootBites brownies, ZootRocks lozenges and ZootBlast energy shots at a rate of about half a million dollars in retail sales per month, Db3 has become the biggest seller of edible cannabis products in Washington state according to Tetratrak.com which analyzes data from the Washington Liquor and Cannabis Control Board. 

When it comes to the legalization of marijuana in the United States, the landscape of marijuana in the United States is changing. According to a Gallup Poll, 51 percent of Americans think it should be legal. Compare that to 12 percent in 1969.

Recreational use of the drug is already legal in Colorado, Oregon, Washington state, Alaska and Washington, D.C. And 23 states allow medical marijuana.

SILVERTHORNE — Upstairs at the Bud+Breakfast, the hosts had laid out a fine buffet. Half-eaten store-bought pizzas sat on the stove and the kitchen counter, along with a barely-touched tray of crudité. More importantly, the offerings included five different strains of marijuana, as well as an array of clean pipes and mini-bongs that would make any collector jealous.

It was 4:20 p.m. Happy hour had arrived.

A sliding glass door opened to a long porch and a tremendous view of the peaks surrounding Silverthorne, Colorado. It was a perfect place to hork a fatty, puff a vape pen or eat a THC-infused peach candy ring.

Experts told BuzzFeed News that, contrary to what New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton wants the public to believe, synthetic marijuana does not give people “superhuman strength.”

NEW YORK — He might as well have been talking about the Incredible Hulk, or narrating the plot of a later-day Reefer Madness.

On Tuesday, New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton painted a terrifying picture of the effects of synthetic marijuana. Speaking at a news conference at police headquarters, the head of the NYPD said that users of the product known as “K2” or “Spice” can acquire “superhuman strength” and “imperviousness to pain.”

But it turns out the commissioner was at least partially wrong.

The Got Meds Lounge sits at the intersection of Holmes Road and Cedar Street in Lansing.(Photo: Dave Wasinger/Lansing State Journal)

LANSING – Steve Green, 37, is a medical marijuana patient with a particular distinction.

Green has visited about 30 dispensaries currently open in Lansing and often jokes it only takes “two jars of pot and a lease” to get a local business started.

“There are no guidelines; there’s no licensing procedure,” said Green, a Michigan medical marijuana cardholder since 2010. “It’s kind of great because it allows for true commerce to take place. But it also allows people from other areas to seek haven.”

Marijuana plants sit on display at a Lansing store last spring. The state’s evolving medical marijuana law has left some prosecutioss lingering for years.(Photo: Dave Wasinger/Lansing State Journal)

LANSING – One law and the case against three men have been in limbo for years as the justice system tries to determine what’s legal and what’s not when it comes to medical marijuana.

The case against the men — Zebediah Dewey, Daniel Corbin and Michael Lewis Jr. — is an example of how the poorly drafted medical marijuana law that didn’t set up a clear legal mechanism for patients to buy the drug is still evolving in Michigan’s courts.

Instate cultivation is still illegal, and that poses a big dilemma for patients

Daniel Macris stands in the sunshine of the Sierra Nevada foothills in Northern California, dangling a fresh marijuana plant from his latex-gloved fingers. It’s a brilliant day in May. With tiny scissors, he snips off the leaves, keeping just the flowers—gnarled little mats of purple and gray-green filament coated in tiny white orbs, which contain all of the chemical compounds that we associate with the plant. Typically that’s tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psycho-active substance that produces a high. 

A Virginia Beach police officer helped locate a marijuana grow operation earlier this year, as well as four pounds of processed pot, some cocaine and more than $92,000 in cash.

And his secret weapon? His nose.

Alonzo D. Bell, 32, of Virginia Beach, was indicted Wednesday in U.S. District Court on five felonies – including possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to distribute cocaine and maintaining a drug involved premises. An arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday.

Assistant Federal Public Defender Suzanne Katchmar declined to comment on the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Darryl Mitchell did not immediately return an email.

Scientists in Israel continue to establish their work as the leading source of information on medical marijuana. In a combined research study conducted primarily by scientists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University, Cannabidiol (CBD) was discovered to enhance fracture healing and promote Lysyl Hydroxylase (an extremely plentiful enzyme associated with bone healing) activity in osteoblasts (bone structure cells).