Researchers looked at some of the studies that have already been conducted on driving under the influence of weed while also digging into actual car crash data. Its analysis showed that drivers smoking pot are about twice as likely to get into a crash as sober drivers. more ›

It was the last medical marijuana dispensary standing. While a ban of all medical marijuana dispensaries operating in the City of Los Angeles is in the works, the LAPD continues to crack down and wrapped their storefront sweep in Chatsworth Monday afternoon. more ›

It's one thing to not listen to the safety instructions on airplanes. It's another thing to suggest that you've completely and utterly ignored standard airline regulations for the past fourteen years, which one SoCal man did yesterday on a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Newark, New Jersey. more ›

Rhonda Gonzales, 44, made a trip out to San Dimas Saturday, to pay a visit to her son, who is at a juvenile probation camp there. Gonzales, however, either forgot to take her marijuana stash out of her handbag, or was hoping to pass it to her kid, since a routine search turned up "multiple bundles" of marijuana, as well as "a falsified medical marijuana card." more ›

Blue Ivy Carter isn't even a week old but she's already collaborated with her pops Jay-Z on a Billboard-charting hit—and provided creative inspiration for the marketing geniuses at pot dispensaries. more ›

A full ban of medical marijuana dispensaries operating in the City of Los Angeles is one step closer to happening today after the City Council Public Safety Committee forwarded a draft ordinance prepared by City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's office to the full City Council, reports City News Service. more ›

If you can get out of work (or your jammies) NOW you may still have time to hit the road, or, better yet, catch a flight, up to the Sacramento area, where in a town called Orangevale, one medical marijuana dispensary is giving out free pot today. more ›

States that have legalized medical marijuana have fewer fatal car accidents, according to a new study by the Institute for the Study of Labor. The study looked at traffic fatalities and concluded that there were 9 percent fewer traffic fatalities in the 13 states that have legalized marijuana. more ›

We found a full prescription of medical marijuana casually kicking it in the streets of Los Angeles. more ›

Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center removed a cancer patient from the liver transplant list in February for using medical marijuana and failing to show up for a drug test. Last week the 63-year-old patient, Norman Smith, asked the medical center to reconsider reinstating him. more ›

Today Councilman Jose Huizar will announce he plans to join with community activists and seek a full ban on the businesses, because a recent court decision will create severe limitations on how the City of Los Angeles can "effectively regulate" those medical marijuana operations. more ›

Medical marijuana patients and supporters will rally in Sacramento on Wednesday to address the recent Department of Justice (DOJ) crackdown in California. Americans for Safe Access (ASA), a coalition of advocacy and labor groups and the aforementioned supporters will descend on the federal building at noon to protest DOJ attacks on the Golden State's medical marijuana laws. more ›

If you're a small business owner medical marijuana patient looking to protect those pot plants you have growing in your backyard, you might be tempted to take out an insurance policy to cover your assets medicine in case of the inevitable drug raid that comes from growing an unthoroughly legalized plant. more ›

Pot advocates who are fired up over the recent, unexpected federal crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries are going to be protesting when Obama comes into town on Monday. more ›

A group that represents 35,000 doctors in the state is calling for the legalization of marijuana at the federal level. The California Medical Association, a lobbying group for doctors in the state, fights tooth and nail to protect doctors' rights to treat their patients the best way they know how. The doctors' group is complaining that right now federal policy is getting in the way of their work. more ›

Gird your loins, LA Weekly: the feds are getting ready to crack down on newspaper ads for marijuana. Since the 1996 passage of Prop 215, the Compassionate Use Act, ads for marijuana dispensaries have popped up on TV and in alt papers. Now, the Huffington Post reports that they're becoming more common in mainstream publications, such as the the Sacramento Bee. more ›

A controversial study showing that crime actually increased in the neighborhoods around shuttered dispensaries has been yanked from the the website of the think tank that commissioned the study. more ›

The three senior citizens who unknowingly gobbled down brownies containing medical marijuana at a mutual friend's memorial service on Saturday were victims of one of their late friend's favorite treats. After the unsuspecting trio - an 82-year-old man and two 71-year-old women - indulged, all three were hospitalized within an hour of each other after experiencing "nausea, dizziness and inability to stand unassisted." more ›

Brownies are an appropriate treat for memorial services, right? But what about pot brownies? Three unsuspecting senior citizens unknowingly ingested brownies containing medical marijuana during a memorial service for a mutual friend on Saturday, October 8. The trio was admitted to Hoag Hospital post-snack. more ›

California's U.S. Attorneys held a press conference today to formally announce their crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in the state and to unveil the actions they were taking against dozens of dispensaries in the state — including several in North Hollywood and Orange County. more ›

The era of legal pot dispensaries could be coming to an end. Sixteen shops in San Diego received notices from the federal government ordering them to shut down within 45 days, even if they are operating legally under California's 15-year-old medical marijuana law, according the Associated Press. more ›

A new study shows that shutting down pot dispensaries could actually increase crime in neighborhoods — a finding that flies in the face of conventional wisdom. Local politicians have created laws to limit dispensaries, argue that they are magnets for crime. But the RAND Corporation's study pokes holes in that argument. more ›

A judge in Orange County ruled that Anaheim's ban on dispensaries doesn't conflict with the 1996 state law that legalized medical marijuana, the Los Angeles Times reports. But the group that filed the case, Qualified Patients Assn., plans to appeal the court's decision. more ›

After nearly two years of vetting their legal right to do so, Glendale has banned medical marijuana dispensaries as of Tuesday night, reports Glendale News-Press. more ›

A thieving male trio is at large after stealing $20k worth of medical marijuana from a deliveryman in Fullerton, reports CBS LA. The suspects painted a green cross on the wall of an industrial complex in the 1100 block of East Elm Avenue, denoting a medical marijuana dispensary, to trick the courier who came from Oakland to Fullerton. more ›

As California cracks down on medical marijuana dispensaries, advocates of the herb's health benefits protest. Brea's City Hall endured the wrath of about 30 medical marijuana supporters on Tuesday evening, objecting the city's mission to close down three local dispensaries, reports The OC Register. Protestors waved signs at traffic; one sign read "RESPECT STATE LAW." more ›

Medical marijuana, though legal in sixteen U.S. states and in Washington, D.C., classifies as a dangerous drug with no therapeutic value, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The federal government has imposed an aggressive mission to mitigate the legality of marijuana, and Los Angeles has witnessed the local effects of a crack-down on dispensaries in recent months, notably in Lake Forest, Venice Beach, West Hollywood and Glendale. more ›

Marijuana has no therapeutic value and must remain classified as a dangerous drug along the same lines as heroin, MDMA, and PCP, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ruled on Friday. more ›

Linear time is just like, your opinion, man. The 'second annual' Kush convention is rolling into the Anaheim Convention Center this weekend, a mere eight months after the first (a third expo has also been booked for Nov. 18-20), according to the OC Register. more ›