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One local hospital says they’re now treating at least a couple of young children every month for toxic exposure to edibles – and they’re warning parents to lock up their pot treats.

This degree could help medical professionals, chemists and those who aim to work in marijuana-related policy, to understand the effects of the drug. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

The proposed Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act would remove marijuana from the controlled substances list.

Across the country, 18 states have already legalized pot for recreational use.

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen is suing a Massachusetts cannabis dispensary over a billboard featuring an image of his character from the movie “Borat,” court documents show. He said the Somerset dispensary, Solar Therapeutics, Inc., plastered the persona on the billboard without his permission for weeks, reaching hundreds of thousands of people. Baron Cohen, along with his California-based company Please You…

An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper successfully performed the Heimlich Maneuver after a man allegedly attempted to swallow a bag of cannabis when he was pulled over for speeding

An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper successfully performed the Heimlich maneuver on a man who attempted to swallow a bag of marijuana after he was pulled over for speeding.

Authorities said Wednesday that they seized $1 billion worth of illegal marijuana in the largest eradication effort in Los Angeles County history.

The city so nice they named it twice? That’s a phrase usually reserved for New York City. California City has a different story: one of the largest cities in the state, but mostly undeveloped desert land. NBCLX Storyteller Cody Broadway explains the dream sold to many who bought land in the Mojave Desert and waited for a bustling community that...

A conservative Supreme Court Justice suggested that federal marijuana laws may no longer be necessary. Justice Clarence Thomas said “The federal government’s current approach is a half-in, half-out regime that simultaneously tolerates and forbids local use of marijuana.”

Here’s what you need to know about marijuana legalization in Virginia.

Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder explains what you can and can’t do when Virginia legalizes marijuana.

“What we need is support for our communities to make sure that we are included in this kind of cultural-based industry.”

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said federal laws against marijuana are inconsistent, suggesting that national prohibition may no longer be necessary. 

“The federal government’s current approach is a half-in, half-out regime that simultaneously tolerates and forbids local use of marijuana,” the conservative Supreme Court justice wrote.

The arrest records show that Caruso was arrested by Texas A&M University Police, where the Lakers’ star played his collegiate ball.

A garbage bag allegedly full of pot that was flung off a Brooklyn rooftop in an apparent sale gone bad scattered onto the sidewalk, sending pedestrians scrambling to pick up marijuana earlier this month, police say.

What was once a beautifully maintained five-bedroom, four-bath house was turned into a large-scale grow operation that posed a danger to the entire neighborhood.

Drug-sniffing police dogs from around Virginia are being forced into early retirement as the state prepares to legalize adult recreational use of marijuana on July 1

Biology researchers exposed lobsters to THC, the chemical in cannabis that gets users high – after a lobster shack owner claimed the drug could ease the crustaceans’ suffering when getting cooked.