Medical Marijuana

Will Ohio go for medical marijuana in November 2014? The Ohio Rights Group is gathering signatures now to put the Ohio Cannabis Rights Amendment on the ballot next year.

A dispensary is now open for business in the nation's capital, several dozen are coming to Arizona, dispensary and cultivation battles continue in California, Massachusetts advocates prepare to protest restrictive regulations, and the DEA hits a Michigan dispensary.

New Hampshire becomes the 19th medical marijuana state, some folks in Kentucky would like it to become one, too; and the local tussling continues in California. And in late news, the DEA strikes in Washington State.

Kentucky state Sen. Perry Clark will introduce his medical marijuana bill for the third time in January, but there is a hearing in August, and Clark and supporters are bringing the noise.

New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan has signed the medical marijuana bill into law. All of New England is now medical marijuana territory.

From the big picture of the origins and state of marijuana prohibition in America to the close-up portrait of one of the country's most pot-friendly and -dependent local economies, Doug Fine delivers with "Too Big to Fail."

A dispensary opens in Arizona as more get shut down in California and more California communities move to shut them down or keep them out. There's more news, too.

The third petition to reschedule marijuana is not dead yet. Although a federal appeals court upheld the DEA rejection of it, the petitioners are now asking the US Supreme Court to review that decision.

We review two books on marijuana -- an academic treatise on marijuana policy in England, and a not-so-academic account of hanging out with pot outlaws in the California hills. Both have their virtues.