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.

By:BrentBegin/SFExaminer Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — After police confiscated 162 marijuana plants from a Taraval neighborhood home last week, a registry of certified medical cannabis growers in San Francisco will be put together by the Police Department and health officials.

Keci/Missoula

The Billings Police Department says it has become a pot delivery service for medical marijuana growers in Montana.

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Maine's Department of Health and Human Services has selected three licensees to operate Maine's first six medical marijuana dispensaries.

By David Downs/East Bay Express

The San Francisco Department of Public Health set some of America's first pot-brownie and milkshake regulations in response to the growing sector of the medical cannabis industry.

Posted by Stephanie Condon/CBSNews.com

An initiative to legalize and tax marijuana in California does not have the support to pass, a new California Field Poll shows.

Likely voters surveyed in the Field Poll said they opposed Proposition 19 by a narrow 48 percent to 44 percent.

By Doug Oakley/Oakland Tribune

Two new laws greatly expanding Berkeley's medical marijuana industry but also raising taxes on it likely will go before voters in November, following a Tuesday night City Council meeting.

The two ballot questions, if approved, will allow up to 11 large-scale growing facilities of various sizes, but none larger than 30,000 square feet in the city's manufacturing zone.