Last month, a federal judge in San Jose issued a preliminary injunction banning the Justice Department, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, from interfering with the Corrals' pot garden, set above an ocean bluff near Davenport, about an hour south of San Francisco.

During its annual state convention, the Texas Medical Association unanimously adopted a new policy recommendation supporting the right of doctors and patients to discuss medical marijuana as a viable treatment option, without fear of recrimination by authorities. The TMA delegates also reaffirmed the association's call for further research on medicinal marijuana.

The Roseville City Council unanimously approved an ordinance that permits medical marijuana shops to operate only in some commercial and industrial areas and stipulates they must be at least 500 feet from churches, schools, parks, homes and other "sole source pharmacies."

Rhode Island may soon become the 10th state to let doctors recommend marijuana to their patients. The drug is known to ease pain and the discomforts of treatments for cancer, AIDS and other ailments. Legalizing marijuana for medical use would seem a humane and rational policy.

Medical Marijuana was a bill that would not die. With time ticking down in the session, senators continued a push to keep it alive.

A measure legalizing the use and possession of marijuana by people suffering from AIDS, cancer or multiple sclerosis crossed its final legislative hurdle Wednesday, paving the way for it to become law without the signature of Gov. James Douglas.

Santa Cruz County supervisors are calling for doctors to help set up guidelines for people who use medical marijuana.

Four months after Roseville's first medical marijuana store opened, city officials are looking at regulations that would limit others from setting up shop.

The U.S. drug war has failed: America's drug laws pose a far greater threat to public health and safety than does drug abuse. Drug use should be treated as a medical and moral issue, not a criminal one.

The Vermont House of Representatives spent four hours Thursday debating proposals to allow patients suffering from chronic pain to smoke marijuana to alleviate their pain.

The Vermont House gave preliminary approval Thursday to a bill that would allow people with certain life-threatening illnesses to use marijuana to relieve pain and nausea without fear of arrest and prosecution.

The war on drugs battled its way to the state Legislature this year where lawmakers eventually voted to legalize its use.

Experts and officials from Government-sanctioned medical marijuana programmes in the Netherlands, Canada and the United States will visit New Zealand this month.

The world's first proposed cannabis-laced prescription drug to relieve pain may get its start in Canada.

Pharmaceutical giant Bayer HealthCare has applied to market a marijuana-based drug in Canada. If approved, it would be the first cannabis-based drug legally available in this country for the relief of debilitating symptoms of multiple sclerosis and severe neuropathic pain.

Humboldt County's medical marijuana task force is getting more time to produce recommendations on a countywide medical pot ordinance. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to extend a 90-day deadline for the task force to come forward with the recommendations.

We Americans like to think of ourselves as living in a representative democracy, where we elect leaders who vote to determine the course of our laws and society. When a vote succeeds, we believe, then that bill is passed.

Narcotics as strong as and not much different from heroin are routinely administered after major surgery, and opiates and the like are called into play for terminal patients as a way to ease their final days.

Gov. James Douglas repeated his concerns about medical marijuana on Thursday, one day after a House committee approved a bill that would exempt patients with certain illnesses from arrest for using the drug.

The Republican leader of the State Senate said yesterday he was warming to legalizing the use of medical marijuana, opening the door for movement on an issue that has been stalled here for years.