Absent the discovery of some previously undisclosed health hazard, marijuana is virtually certain to become more widely available.

Would you smoke marijuana if it were legal?

Backers of two rival ballot initiatives to decriminalize the cultivation, purchase and use of marijuana are betting that a significant percentage of Michigan adults — at least 12% — would, generating upwards of $200 million a year in tax revenue once the state has established the ground rules for a legal market.

But what if you knew your employer could fire you for having chemical traces of marijuana in your bloodstream — even if you used it only on your own time, and in your own home?

Working at a medical marijuana dispensary in 2015, you never know what type of questions you’ll get. Bryan Willkomm, general manager at Humboldt Patient Resource Center in Arcata, said a lot of folks, especially the seasoned old-timers, will just take a sniff of the various buds on offer and say, “Smells good to me.” That whiff gives them all the information they need. Others are more demanding.

The medical marijuana bill that has stalled in Harrisburg, SB3, has many flaws. We've discussed these shortcomings, at length, here in the column. Yet there are some important protections for patients built into the measure that are quite innovative and forward-thinking. 

On Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a bizarre ruling that allows for medical cannabis patients to be fired simply for testing positive for THC metabolites. 

COTTAGE GROVE – In a field where soybeans used to grow stands a building where new plants are being cultivated to bring medical marijuana to patients in St. Cloud and others statewide.

LeafLine Labs on Wednesday opened the doors to its Cottage Grove facility to show off the place where medical marijuana is grown and processed into the liquid and pill form that will be available to qualified patients.

"If I didn't already believe in the power and the potential of a small seed and a big dream I most assuredly do now," said Dr. Andrew Bachman, as he pointed to the 42,000-square-foot facility that holds dozens of marijuana plants.

A new federal lawsuit against the mayor of Santa Ana is alleging that the city accepted bribes in exchange for granting marijuana licenses to dispensaries.

The city of Santa Ana is still in turmoil over a surveillance video purporting to show police officers in ski masks raiding the Sky High Holistic dispensary three weeks ago with guns drawn, eating marijuana, playing darts and attempting to take down any and all surveillance gear in the shop,NBC Los Angeles reports.

An internal investigation, conducted by the Santa Ana Police Department, is ongoing.

Opponents of legalizing marijuana for medical purposes have long argued that such laws will encourage more youngsters to partake. But that notion may have no factual grounding, according to a new study that shows cannabis use among teenagers didn’t increase in states that legalized medical marijuana.

The hype over hemp that erupted last year during Colorado’s first sensational flirtations with the marijuana look-alike is now starting to live up to expectations. A handful of growers in 2014 planted and harvested small-scale crops that attracted large-scale attention under hemp’s newly legal status.

This year, hype is being replaced with indicators of hemp’s industrial potential as seen in farm fields, factories, retail outlets and university laboratories. Hemp and its byproducts have a wide range of uses in nutrition, clothing, building materials, cosmetics and health.

The sector still is too tiny to rate even an asterisk in most conventional measures such as crop value and retail sales in Colorado.

It may be nearly 80 years old, but for many Americans Reefer Madness is still terrifying.

Proprietary delivery system makes essential medical marijuana more predictable, eliminates dosing concerns

The rumour, and the truth