It's been a quiet but good year for medicinal marijuana proponents in El Dorado County.

Medical cannabis users and advocates are lobbying city leaders to increase Berkeley's indoor marijuana plant limit from 10 to 72, which is the amount allowed in Oakland.

In the 1994 Quentin Tarantino movie "Pulp Fiction," John Travolta's character describes Amsterdam's marijuana laws: "It's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, and if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, but that doesn't matter 'cause - get a load of this - if you get stopped by a cop in Amsterdam, it's illegal for them to search you." The law in California is slightly more confusing.

A Santa Cruz medical marijuana collective shut down by federal agents two years ago can grow and distribute marijuana for its patients while its civil lawsuit against the federal government is decided by the courts, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

A federal court ruling Wednesday will allow the patients of a Santa Cruz medical marijuana collective to at least temporarily begin cultivating and using cannabis without fear of raids by drug agents.

A judge ordered the federal government Wednesday to keep away from a California medical marijuana group that grows and distributes cannabis for its sick members.

Advocates for the medical use of marijuana will begin collecting signatures across Montana next week on petitions seeking to place the issue on the November ballot.

A judge on Wednesday ordered the federal government to keep away from a California medical marijuana group that grows and distributes cannabis for its sick members.

Supporters of a proposed initiative to allow Montanans to grow, possess and use marijuana for medical purposes can begin gathering petition signatures to qualify the measure for the November ballot.

As a California pediatrician and 49-year-old mother of two teenage daughters, Claudia Jensen says pot might prove to be the preferred medical treatment for attention deficit disorder — even in adolescents.

New city rules are forcing Oakland's cannabis clubs to compete with each other for survival.

The Citrus Heights City Council adopted an urgency ordinance Wednesday setting restrictions on medical marijuana dispensaries while making room for a cannabis shop planned on Auburn Boulevard.

The government of the Spanish region of Catalonia announced March 31 that it would support providing medical marijuana in pharmacies, and now local and national pharmacists' organizations are asking the government to provide actions to accompany those words.

A painting of Patricia Skidmore's son hangs over her fireplace. It's a constant reminder of why she advocates the use of marijuana for those who are suffering from crippling diseases.

A bill that would legalize marijuana for medical use has new life at the Vermont statehouse.

The Democratic and Republican candidates for governor aired their differences over using marijuana for medical purposes Wednesday, while the personal, legal and scientific facets of the issue intertwined in testimony before a panel of legislators.

Hearings get under way Wednesday at the state Capitol on allowing seriously ill patients to smoke marijuana to ease their pain and suffering.

Invoking a rarely used doctrine that says a defendant may commit a crime to avoid a perceived greater harm, a federal judge granted reduced sentences Tuesday to a Ventura County couple who grew marijuana for a now defunct West Hollywood cannabis club.

A Ventura County man was sentenced to a year in prison and his wife received six months of home detention for growing marijuana for a now-closed Los Angeles cannabis center.

The Canadian government has announced a plan to make marijuana available in pharmacies after observing the benefits it can have for people with certain illnesses, making Canada the second country to allow the direct sale of the drug for medicinal purposes.