Users of prescribed marijuana went to the City Council meeting March 2 in hopes of setting aside a week to promote marijuana awareness in Madison. The council voted to recognize March 14-21 as Madison Marijuana Medical Awareness Week.

A couple charged with growing marijuana may be allowed to present evidence to a federal jury that it was being used for medicinal purposes.

Irvin Rosenfeld is a legal medical marijuana patient, and the federal government sends him the cigarettes. He receives a tin can of almost 300 marijuana cigarettes per month and smokes up to 12 per day.

Health Canada plans to make government-certified marijuana available in pharmacies, a move that could rapidly boost the number of registered medical users.

Canada plans to make government-certified marijuana available in local pharmacies, a move that would make it only the second country in the world to allow the direct sale of medical marijuana.

Canada will become the second country in the world this year to permit the sale of marijuana in drug stores for medical use.

Legalizing medical use of marijuana is a "smokescreen" for backdoor efforts to legalize pot for everyday use, claim opponents of a state House bill to allow marijuana for medical purposes.

The issue of legalizing medical marijuana has pitted individual states against the federal government. Although federal law prohibits any use or possession of marijuana, more than half of the U.S. states have enacted favorable medical marijuana laws since 1978.

A bill that will allow sick people to grow marijuana for medicinal purposes cleared its first legislative hurdle Monday, despite opposition from lawmakers who described the measure as a backdoor attempt to legalize the drug.

Patients in Contra Costa County have a hard time getting what they consider essential medicine.

In the case of medical marijuana, the Manteca Police Department uses the court system for any Mantecan who claims to use the drug for it's medicinal purposes.

There is no lack of emotion and hype in the New York City Council's ongoing debate over using marijuana in the treatment of certain cancer cases. What's missing is sound science, good medical care and real compassion for patients' suffering.

The debate over medical marijuana comes down to a simple question: Should we prohibit doctors from prescribing or even discussing with their most gravely ill patients all treatment options?

It has been proven that marijuana has medicinal uses. The issue that is frequently missed is that there is no standardized source of marijuana for commercial medicinal purposes. More energy should be spent discovering just how much good can come from the plant and treat it the same as a prescription drug.

A federal judge has taken over jurisdiction of a case that grew out of a federal narcotics agent's refusal to return a Hayden man's confiscated marijuana.

A case involving contempt citations for officers who seized medicinal marijuana from a Hayden man last fall will be heard in federal court, a judge ruled Tuesday.

A federal judge in Colorado ruled Tuesday that the federal court, not state court, is the right place to decide a dispute over conflicting laws governing the use of medical marijuana.

In a continuing debate about temporary identification cards for medical marijuana users, it is unclear whether cops or advocates will win -- or whether some kind of compromise can be reached.

Hoping to capitalize on west Sonoma County's liberal reputation, the founder of the oldest medical marijuana club in Berkeley is proposing a similar shop just south of downtown Sebastopol.

After listening to emotional testimony from medical-marijuana advocates, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday decided to seek more information about allowing the medical use of the drug.