The Associated Press

(AP) — PORTLAND, Ore. - With one hand, Lindsey Bradshaw hoisted his food bag onto his back, arranging the tube that has helped feed him since cancer ravaged his stomach seven years ago. In his other hand, he clutched a small gold bowl of marijuana and a pipe.

Medford Parenting Examiner

Medical marijuana (cannabis), which is legally available in 14 states with a prescription, is used everyday by millions for a variety of ailments.  Many adults turn to the controversial drug (as it is illegal in most parts of the United States) to treat cancer side effects, fibryomyalgia, migraines, anxiety - the list is endless.  But one mother has made a provocative public admission: she is administering medical marijuana to her 11-year-old son, Ryan Mendoza.

By Dan Frosch

DENVER — The Department of Veterans Affairs will formally allow patients treated at its hospitals and clinics to use medical marijuana in states where it is legal, a policy clarification that veterans have sought for several years.

By Peter Jamison/sfweekly.com

The Oakland City Council last night approved an ordinance allowing industrial-scale marijuana growing operations to set up shop in town, supplying the city's medical pot dispensaries. The measure is expected, by some estimates, to generate up to $2 million in tax revenue for the cash-strapped city. Yet not everyone is celebrating.

KTVU.com/AP Contributed

OAKLAND, Calif. -- After weathering the fear of federal prosecution and competition from drug cartels, California's medical marijuana growers see a new threat to their tenuous existence: the "Wal-Marting" of weed.

By  JOSIAH DANIEL RYAN/www.jpost.com

In several weeks patients in Israel who take medical marijuana as treatment will pay a NIS 360 monthly service charge to cover administrative and distribution costs, a source inside Tikkun Olam, the nonprofit organization that produces the country's medical marijuana,

By TIFFANY REVELLE/The Ukiah Daily Journal

The federal Drug Enforcement Administration last week raided the Covelo home of the county's first applicant for a 99-plant exemption under the county's newly revised medical marijuana cultivation code.

"I don't know why this came up on the DEA's radar," Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said

Sue Major Holmes/Associated Press Writer

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Len Goodman can't grow enough marijuana to keep up with demand.

He is one of just 11 growers approved by New Mexico to produce pot for all of the state's 2,000 registered medical marijuana patients, and his customers routinely wipe out his supply.

Cities are taxing dispensaries to trim budget deficits

By Christopher Palmeri and Michael Marois/businessweek.com

Here's a sure sign that marijuana dispensaries are on their way to becoming big business: On July 13 the city council of Berkeley, Calif., asked voters to approve a 2.5 percent tax on the city's marijuana outlets, three of which grossed a total of $19 million last year, all cash.

A new poll by Cornell University Survey Research Institute found that six in 10 New Yorkers are in favor of legalizing marijuana for medical use. A higher percentage of upstate residents support it than downstate – 67 percent versus 62 percent.