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California Attorney General: Don't Panic Over Pot Ruling San Francisco, Calif. -- Oregon stopped issuing medical marijuana cards after Monday's Supreme Court ruling, but people could apparently still get pot with a doctor's prescription there and in nine other states, and nobody in law enforcement appeared eager to make headlines arresting ailing patients. "People shouldn't panic. There aren't going to be many changes," California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said. "Nothing is different today than it was two days ago, in terms of real-world impact." The high court ruled 6-3 that people who smoke marijuana because their doctors recommend it to...

<p>NEW YORK — Sean Penn wants to know what you think of his political views — all 4,000 words of them.</p> <p>The politically active actor has taken out a full-page ad in the New York Times, in which he addresses issues ranging from his trip to Iraq and the future of the United States to the American flag and the meaning of patriotism.</p>

Our mayor, our premier, the opposition, restaurant and casino owners, the non-smokers and the smokers-rights types, they're all locked in a battle to the death over who gets to smoke -- cigarettes that is -- and who doesn't. Glen Murray to date won't let himself be pinned down on a citywide ban, ditto Doer on a provincewide ban. Restaurants that have bars attached continue to allow smoking while bar owners have nightmares at the thought that someday soon their establishments might have to go cold turkey. Meanwhile, booze is legal, cigarette smoking is legal and marijuana is not. There's something...

Sean Penn broke his silence following his controversial trip to Iraq with an interview last night on CNN's ''Larry King Show'' by saying he went to Baghdad seeking information, but doesn't feel he is in a position to share what he learned with the American people. Sean Penn on CNN Asked by King what the purpose of his trip to Iraq was, the actor-director said: ''The purpose was information.'' Insisting in a somewhat rambling interview that he doesn't think he ''hurt this country's position,'' Penn accused the Bush administration of trying to ''herd us into this position. We as citizens...