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What exactly is a marijuana plant? Seems a fairly straightforward question with a simple answer. However, the issue has been muddled in Michigan, where the Court of Appeals had to take on the issue in Michigan v. Ventura. The issue was raised after police in Grand Rapids raided the home of the defendant in this…

For years, the biggest threat for small-time marijuana dispensaries and collectives in California were the authorities – namely, the federal government. Now as that threat is waning, a new one has emerged: Big business. California was the first to legalize the drug as medicine in 1996, but those who dispensed marijuana were never allowed to…

A proposed state assembly measure would give landlords the authority to ban tenants from smoking medical marijuana inside their residences. The measure was introduced by Assemblyman Jim Wood, the Democrat from Heraldsburg who pointed to a study by the University of California San Francisco indicating secondhand smoke from marijuana could result in damage to the…