On Friday, July 17 agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division, Texas Highway Patrol, Drug Enforcement Administration, Texas Parks and Wildlife, the Texas Army National Guard, Investigators with the Mineral Wells Police Department, and the Palo Pinto and Erath County Sheriff’s Office seized approximately 10,000 marijuana plants being cultivated on the South end of Erath County.

The seizure was a result of the Domestic Marijuana Eradication program and shows the great working relations and corporation that law enforcement in this area possess.

If you're an emoji-illiterate old person, like me, that string of pictograms above probably reads something like "Hi sleep F beer NG peace bicep box." But the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, the anti-drug group behind the anti-drug ads of your childhood, hopes that it means something completely different to today's teens: they've recently launched the world's first emoji-only anti-drug PSA campaign.

SANTA FE – The names of New Mexico medical marijuana dispensaries and their employees will soon be made public, under a directive announced Wednesday by the office of Gov. Susana Martinez.

The Republican governor’s decision will reverse a long-standing confidentiality provision in the state’s Medical Cannabis Program and comes less than a week after a lawsuit was filed in an attempt to strike down the regulation that allows for the names of medical marijuana producers to be kept secret.

It will not apply to the 15,625 certified patients in the medical pot program – just the producers and their employees.

High-school stoner looking to score weed or undercover agent? 

As Heidi mentioned in Morning News, minors in Washington State seem about as likely to get away with buying legal weed as buying beer from a supermarket.

Yesterday, the Washington State Liquor Control Board announced that 19 of the state's 157 recreational marijuana stores had sold to underage, undercover buyers—an 87.9 percent compliance rate, which is roughly the same as the state's rate of underage alcohol sales. (Underage sales of illegal drugs, of course, have a zero percent compliance rate.)

VALE, Ore. -- On July 1, recreational marijuana became legal in Oregon.

Now, communities in eastern Oregon are taking action against the commercial sale of pot.

Many cities, like Vale, Nyssa, and Ontario that were highly against the passing of Measure 91, are looking at passing ordinances that would ban the commercial sale of marijuana in their city.

Last election, nearly 70 percent of the people living in Malheur County voted against Measure 91, a ballot measure that legalized marijuana in the state of Oregon.

But now they're getting a second chance to reject marijuana sales.

The first televised advertisement in Denver for legal marijuana is scheduled to air on local ABC affiliate KMGH, the Cannabist reported Wednesday. The advertisement for Neos, a company that extracts cannabis oil and sells it in loaded vaporizer pens, is slated to run July 20 at 10:35 p.m., prior to "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The 15-second ad was expected to be the first of several marijuana-related ads to run on KMGH, and it would likely be the first ever advertisement for pot on TV.

States that have legalized medical marijuana and provide it through dispensaries to patients in need are seeing falling rates of deaths due to opiate-based narcotics, according to a study reported on by the website Vox.

CANTON, MI -- In the last week, Detroit-area law enforcement agencies shut down multiple dispensaries.

Raids, seizures and arrests occurred in Shelby Township last week and in Detroit Tuesday.

State Attorney General Bill Schuette's office on Friday authorized felony charges of conspiracy to deliver marijuana and delivery of marijuana against three Ypsilanti resident operating a dispensary in Canton.

That investigation began last September and culminated with execution of multiple search warrants in March. All three people charged pleaded not guilty.

ANCHORAGE –

The owners of a new marijuana business in Anchorage are furious, accusing police of stealing from them.

Wednesday night, a delivery driver with Absolutely Chronic Deliver Company — or ACDC — had his car seized by Anchorage police officers after making a drop at the Lakefront Anchorage, formerly the Millennium Hotel.

“I came out and I had two APD officers tell me to step out of my vehicle, yelling and screaming, ‘Show your hands, turn off your vehicle, get out,’” said Michael Everly. “They put me in the back of one of their police cars.”

ACDC is a delivery business that brings donated marijuana to customers for a $10 delivery fee. Michael Crites, co-owner of ACDC, said the police had no justification for this action.

PUEBLO COUNTY - As Colorado's marijuana industry grows at an incredible rate, so is the use of electricity to power the increasing number of grow facilities.  All this, as state deadlines for higher renewable energy requirements draw near, in just a few years. And Pueblo County is home to dozens of these grow operations, with no sign of business slowing down.

"Their electricity usage characteristically tends to be high density in nature," said Bret Jones, Black Hills Energy Sr. Program Manager, External Affairs.

A lot of lights, air conditioning and de-humidifiers are staples of an indoor marijuana grow. And in the past year and a half, Jones has seen the number of such facilities grow in the Pueblo County region.