Aggressive prosecution #1: California businessman commercially growing medical marijuana.

Adam Nagourney, in the NYT, gives very sympathetic treatment to Matthew R. Davies — "a round-faced 34-year-old father of two young gir...

"Alligator found guarding 34 pounds of pot in a Northern California home."

"[Sheriff's Sgt. J.D. ] Nelson said [Assif ] Mayar apparently acquired the alligator, named 'Mr. Teeth,' in 1996 to commemo...

"Cannabis makes pain more bearable rather than actually reducing it..."

"Using brain imaging, researchers found that the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis reduced activity in a part of the brain linked to ...

Jimmy Carter thinks "it's okay" to legalize marijuana.

Well, then! He took the federalism angle: "That’s the way our country has developed over the last 200 years. It’s about a few states be...

"Two students from the University of Colorado Boulder were arrested after they gave marijuana-laced brownies to their professor and unsuspecting classmates Friday."

It was "bring food to class" day. Perhaps they thought it was amusing , considering that "legalization" they have in Col...

"The Drug War is about control."

"Obama likes control." And here 's the NYT reporting on the way the Obama administration is supposedly mulling over what to d...

"Does this mean you should flagrantly roll up a mega-spliff and light up in the middle of the street?"

"No." If you’re smoking pot in public, officers will be giving helpful reminders to folks about the rules and regulations under I...

"We're all adults here, it's time we take our freedom back."

Fabulous slogan from ad — viewable at the link — for blu eCigs. Most living Americans had never before seen a cigarette advertised on telev...

"Why did America change its mind about legal marijuana?"

Asks the Christian Science Monitor , reacting to the Quinnipiac Poll — which we were talking about yesterday . Our discussion focused on the...

Quinnipiac poll: Americans favor legalization of marijuana, 54-44%.

Men support legalization by a much wider margin, 59-36%, and women oppose it, 52-44%. Care to speculate on what that gender difference is ab...

"Marijuana... is still illegal under federal law. State officials say the Justice Department is creating confusion..."

"... by remaining silent about what steps it may take in Washington and Colorado, which passed initiatives in November legalizing the m...

"The Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research at Humboldt State University plans to sponsor scholarly lectures..."

"... and coordinate research among 11 faculty members from fields such as economics, geography, politics, psychology and sociology....

"Now that legal pot is here, will cigarette companies dust off their old plans for mass commercialization?"

NPR explores the coming of legal marijuana: In the '70s... "there were high-level conversations about adding marijuana to tobacco, ...

"[T]he hypocrisy of pillorying a guy for using his employer’s equipment to grow marijuana..."

"... while his employer offers training in how to create a pair of substances — including one with its own mind-altering properties — t...

The economics of legal(ish) marijuana in Colorado and Washington.

It won't be cheap for users. And it will be hard for the producers — or the states (with their taxes and fees) — to make money.

"Why are Mexican troops up in the mountains of Sinaloa and Guerrero and Durango looking for marijuana..."

"... and why are we searching for tunnels, patrolling the borders, when once this product reaches Colorado it becomes legal?"

Understanding social media: the cop's "Cough."

In response to the Reddit query: "Where/how could an aspiring pot smoker such as myself buy weed on campus/near campus? I want to try ...

Are you vacationing in Aspendam?

Did you ever take a holiday in Amsterdam to get to the legal — legal ish — marijuana? Are vacations like that now within a car's drive ...

"He will bring happiness in a pipe/He'll ride away on his silver bike/And apart from that he'll be so kind/In consenting to blow your mind..."

"Fat Angel," by Donovan (who wrote it) or The Jefferson Airplane ( live , with oil-based light show) and even Orange Alabaster Mu...

Woman found guilty of giving cannibis to her baby... via breast milk.

In New Zealand , where the senior court official said: "Child abuse is family violence in these circumstances, and it is clear this bab...