The mile high club may soon take on a new meaning as states continue to liberalize their marijuana laws. Although it’s a try-it-at-your-own-risk scenario, airplane passengers in certain situations are being permitted to carry marijuana on board, even if TSA agents sniff out the drugs.

Canada is ushering in what it projects to be a $1.3 billion medical marijuana free market this week, as it replaces small and homegrown pot production with quality-controlled marijuana produced by large farms. The market could eventually serve up to 450,000 Canadians, according to government estimates.

He's not exactly Gene Wilder—though old Gene would probably take a tour of his factory pretty quick—but Tripp Keber has got that stuff that all the new cool kids these days no doubt want: WEED with a capital W-E-E-D.

GARDAI are hunting a dopey drugs gang after discovering a botched cannabis growing operation with no drugs.

The growing popularity of marijuana has propelled a rise in drug use among Americans, including those in their 50s and 60s, a recently released national survey shows.

More than 150 people are now believed to have been sickened by synthetic marijuana in Colorado, which legalized recreational use of real pot last November. Three people may have died.

Marijuana legalization was sold as a way for the government to better regulate the industry. But now the mask is coming off, and we’re seeing what they really want: unrestricted drug sales and soaring profits.

It's a good time to be a marijuana smoker. Colorado and Washington have already enacted laws making weed legal for recreational use, and another 20 or so states allow it for medicinal use. With such a huge swath of the nation no longer harshing the mellow of their resident smokers, it appears the domino effect that marijuana proponents hope will lead to legalization at the federal level is finally gaining momentum.

SEATTLE — Recreational pot users in Washington state would have as many as 334 stores where they would be able to buy marijuana for their smoking pleasure, and the first could open as early as next spring under new regulations released this week.

It’s not often that people feel sorry for NFL players. With even the lowest-paid rookies earning hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, they live a life that most fans could only dream of. But in the states of Colorado and Washington, the general public enjoy at least one privilege that NFL players do not. As long as they are 21 or older, those fans can smoke marijuana.

Medical marijuana businesses worried that federal agents will close them down now have a roadmap to avoid prosecution, courtesy of the Justice Department’s decision to allow legal pot in Colorado and Washington state.

Nearly 24 million Americans, about 9.2% of the population, use illicit drugs, and marijuana use is steadily increasing.

It's legal to light up in Colorado and Washington, and soon smoking pot could be legalized across the country following a decision Thursday by the federal government.

Todd McNeal, fire chief in Twain Harte, a town affected by the Rim Fire that is still burning in California, told a community meeting: “We don’t know the exact cause. … [It is] highly suspect that there might have been some sort of illicit grove, a marijuana-grow-type thing.”

A sheriff's office employee reported seeing the man step out of his pickup truck with a bow and arrow Tuesday morning. Sheriff Bill Elfo says the man fired the arrow toward the jail's second-floor recreation area.

It's becoming a cliché: The tide is turning in the debate over cannabis. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, publicly reversed his position and now supports medical cannabis.

Cannabis interacts with our brain through chemical receptors found in the areas of our brain that govern our learning and management of rewards, motivated behavior, decision-making, habit formation and motor function. As the structure of the brain changes rapidly during adolescence, scientists believe that cannabis consumption at this time greatly influences personality development.

With a maximum of only 35 licenses, Massachusetts health groups are all competing for medical marijuana licenses, health officials have said.

The medical marijuana legalization effort has real for-profit potential. But navigating the legal and financial hurdles is not easy.

The leader of the Canadian Liberal Party has admitted smoking marijuana while a sitting member of parliament.