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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.

Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get as many as three pot-legalization measures on the ballot in 2010 in California, setting up what could be a groundbreaking clash with the federal government over U.S. drug policy.

At least one poll shows voters would support lifting the pot prohibition, which would make the state of more than 38 million the first in the nation to legalize 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.

Federal drug trafficking and weapons charges led to the Monday arrest of veteran Gallatin County Sheriff Raymond M. Martin, who is accused in a criminal complaint of dealing marijuana while on duty and in ...

The traffic stop of a big-rig turned into a juicy bust for the Arizona Department of Public Safety on Tuesday after 508 pounds of pot were discovered along with a load of watermelons.

An Assemblyman from San Francisco argues that it's time to tax and regulate the state's biggest cash crop in the same manner as alcohol. Opponents say it would create new costs for society.