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LOS ANGELES — This school doesn’t have a problem with students not paying attention. “They’re paying us to come, and our classes are full,” says Jeff Jones, chancellor of the Los Angeles branch of Oaksterdam University, where students learn the business of marijuana from seed to ash. Attitudes are ...

A widely available and legal drug that mimics the effects of marijuana could became illegal in Missouri through a bill considered Tuesday in the Legislature. Bill sponsor Rep. Ward Franz, R-West Plains, told the House Public Safety Committee that easy access to the drug, which is sold in smoke shops ...

A new University of British Columbia study suggests the research effort now devoted to medical marijuana as therapeutic treatment for cognitive diseases such as Alzheimer’s may be better directed elsewhere. Scientists had hoped to confirm previous studies that pointed to a possible use for medical m ...

Rhode Island — State Rep. John G. Edwards, D-Dist. 70, introduced a bill last week in the General Assembly that would decriminalize possession of up to one ounce of marijuana. Under current law, possession of such small amounts is a criminal offense that carries a $500 fine and up to one year in pri ...

The Obama administration gave Hawaii and other states that have legalized medical marijuana the freedom to go forward with their efforts to make it available to patients.  The Legislature should provide for a distribution system with safeguards to protect against the kind of carnival atmosph ...