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She popped her pop in the privates — when he wouldn’t share a few puffs of pot. A Florida woman was arrested on Thursday for allegedly attacking her father and trying to grab his genitals after he refused to let her smoke his medical marijuana, The Smoking Gun reports. Dakota DiRienzo, 22, allegedly lit up with anger because her dad, Luigi, had been sharing his pot with pals but not with his own daughter, the outlet reported. They came to blows at his trailer park home in the town of Sebastian, just north of Vero Beach, cops alleged. “Dakota attacked...

Photosview all photos Related Links More on marijuana: Colorado Springs civic boosters fear legalized pot's impact on military bases Video: Charlotte and another child helped by “Charlotte’s Web" Six-year-old Charlotte Figi, a picture of precious in her "Gatsby"-style bob and blue toenails, stands patiently as her mother reaches up her dress to change her out of her soiled Pull-Ups. - Charlotte never says a word. She hasn't in the past hour, and won't for at least another 30 minutes, when she finally whispers the name of a visitor who is about to leave.In the Figi household, these are signs of...

Ely photographer K.K. Forss is using words rather than a camera to offer a picture of what his life is like without medical marijuana. Forss traveled to the State Capitol to testify in support of medical marijuana legislation at a Senate Health, Housing and Family Security Committee hearing on Wednesday. Medical marijuana use has been a political issue in Minnesota since the mid-nineties. The bill is currently being sponsored in the House by Rep. Tom Rukavina (DFL-Virginia). A five member bipartisan group is pushing it in the Senate. Last year, though the legislation passed in the Senate, it did not...

SAN DIEGO - This seaside city was a bystander as liberal strongholds like San Francisco and Santa Cruz created identification cards for sick patients who use marijuana and wrote regulations to permit storefront pot dispensaries. Now, 10 years after Californians voted to decriminalize marijuana for medical purposes, conservative San Diego County is leading a backlash against the groundbreaking law. The county is challenging California's medical marijuana law in state court, saying it should not be required to comply with a state law directing counties to issue ID cards to users. At the same time, local police, working with federal agents,...

The state will begin issuing identification cards to medical marijuana users in Sonoma, Mendocino and Marin counties this summer, part of a pilot program in 10 counties designed to protect certified users from arrest and pot seizures. The voluntary ID card program, developed by the state Department of Health Services, will be expanded statewide by year's end, said Norma Arceo, a spokeswoman for the department. Law enforcement officials hailed the move, saying it will simplify a confusing patchwork of local policies and make it easier to distinguish between legal marijuana users and criminals. "I think it's good news for everybody,"...

SWITCHING SIDES ON STATES' RIGHTS By Jim Puzzanghera Although they wear the same standard-issue black robes, it's difficult to confuse U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia -- an impassioned conservative with thick, dark hair -- with John Paul Stevens -- an ardent liberal whose mane is as white as the court's famous marble columns. But had you shut your eyes during oral arguments recently in a case involving California's medicinal-marijuana law, you might not have recognized who was talking. It was Scalia, historically one of the leading proponents of the rights of states, who vigorously challenged the attorney for two...

FEDS RELAX POT RULES In a bid to boost the availability of pot, the feds have softened medicinal marijuana rules. Health Canada announced yesterday that it's okay to pay a licensed grower for their weed. The department also cut the red tape in the application process. It now requires a patient to obtain the recommendation from one medical specialist - -- not two. Health Canada spokeswoman Catherine Saunders said the move responds to an Ontario Court of Appeal ruling in October criticizing the federal medicinal marijuana program for making it too difficult to get access to pot. More Growers By...

Woman Reimbursed for Stolen Pot Plants When Tammy VanBuskirk of Hilo discovered her four medical marijuana plants stolen in May, she did what most people would do in case of a theft: She reported the crime to police. Then she filed a claim with her homeowner's insurance company. VanBuskirk hasn't heard from the police since May. But about a week ago, she heard from the insurance company. American Reliable Insurance Co., of Scottsdale, Ariz. sent her a check for $2,040.31. The paperwork with the check noted, "Pot plants policy limit $500 per plant." The extra $40.31 was for miscellaneous expenses,...

I'm writing an article for my school paper on medicinal marijuana, focusing on California's policies on the subject. Could anyone give me a good source for information on THC pills, or any arguments for the illegalization of marijuana?

<p>Got pot? Maybe not: Medicinal marijuana users who had drug charges dropped against them might not get their plants back without a fight.</p> <p>Two separate cases in San Francisco and Yuba counties this week have highlighted the issue of whether seized marijuana plants used for medical purposes should be returned to onetime criminal defendants.</p>