Marijuana Industry

There could be a California initiative to bring statewide regulation to medical marijuana next year, organizers said Tuesday.

The skies over California's medical marijuana industry may be dark and stormy, but the feds can't keep the sunshine away forever, well-placed activists say.

The feds continue their war on medical marijuana distribution in California, with two new DEA raids Monday and the use of asset forfeiture threats to shut down eight dispensaries in Orange County.

The feds are backing up last week's medical marijuana threats with actions -- sometimes by themselves, sometimes with the DEA working in tandem with local officials.

A Southern California federal prosecutor has signaled that the Justice Department's war on medical marijuana distribution will be extended to media that accept advertising from dispensaries.

The RAND Corporation has been caught in a political buzz saw since it dared to claim that medical marijuana dispensaries didn't cause crime to increase. Now, it has pulled those research results pending further review.