Economics

There are some bumps on the way to legal marijuana.

There are many obstacles in the way of small growers, and so far, the vast majority are staying in the shadows.

It certainly looks that way. If so, then drug prohibition may prevent the economic embargo from having the desired impact.

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California's legal marijuana market is the biggest in the country, but that doesn't come close to accounting for all the weed it produces.

The nation's most populous state is likely to legalize weed in November. Then what?

A third marijuana legalization campaign is getting underway in Michigan, a New Mexico state representative tries again with a legalization bill, Mexican marijuana farmers are feeling the pinch from competition north of the border, and more.

America's fourth largest city decriminalizes on Friday, Detroit tightens up on police use of paid snitches, a federal judge in Denver is hearing a marijuana banking case, and more.

Congress just voted to block the DEA and Justice Department from interfering in medical marijuana states and to soften the ban on federal needle exchange funding, but reformers didn't get everything they wanted.

Legal marijuana moves ahead in Colorado and Washington, medical marijuana will be comprehensively regulated in California, Jerry Brown splits on a pair of immigration drug deportation bills, Mexican opium poppy production is up dramatically, and more.