Medical Marijuana | featured news

The city of Oakland, California on Tuesday legalized large-scale marijuana cultivation for medical use and will issue up to four permits for "industrial" cultivation starting next year.

Selling legal pot is a booming business. Denver now has more medical-marijuana shops than Starbucks locations.

Recent ballot initiatives on medical marijuana lead a surge of support for legalizing the drug.

Under new legal guidelines, federal drug agents won't pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana.

Rhode Island has become the third state in the nation to permit marijuana sales to chronically ill patients over the objections of Gov. Don Carcieri.