The application includes a background check, fingerprinting and $2,000 fee, plus the cost of the background checks. There is also a $3,000 annual license fee.

AP: A celebration of cannabis culture has been canceled after concerns were raised by Las Vegas law enforcement officers.

The secretive squad does not disclose its surveillance methods, identities, how often it rolls out or even how many officers are on the team.

The RCMP wants to dazzle the gullible among the public by giving as inflated values for a weed as impossible to eradicate as dandelions.

More than 20 Australian officers are understood to have been hauled before secret hearings to forcibly answer questions or give evidence against allegedly crooked colleagues.

Poll shows overwhelming support (over 70 percent) for the legalization of marijuana for medical use.

The drug war is best understood as a battle of dollar versus dollar -- a bloody war between the dollars of U.S. taxpayers and the dollars of U.S. consumers.

State lawmakers today unveiled a bill that would make major changes to Colorado's medical-marijuana industry, allowing retail-style dispensaries to remain open, but forcing them to re-organize as licensed, non-profit "health centers."

Decriminalization advocates (like those for legalization) are using cost arguments to make their case. The Wall Street Journal says decrim "might save the state millions of dollars in prosecution and prison costs, or it could have the opposite effect, forcing state prosecutors to litigate scores of cases they now plead down to simple possession of marijuana."

A bill to decriminalize the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana and substitute a civil penalty of $150 was introduced in the Rhode Island House of Representatives yesterday. H 7317, a bipartisan bill was co-sponsored by 35 House members and has been referred to the House Judiciary committee.