PHOENIX - The state's first medical marijuana dispensaries could be up, running and selling the drug by mid-July.State Health Director Will Humble announced Tuesday he will not appeal a court ruling invalidating some of the rules he had crafted limiting who can own and...

BOULDER — No new marijuana dispensaries will be allowed in Boulder until at least November while the city reviews laws and policies on the sale of the drug over cost concerns.

Federal prosecutors in Colorado made their strongest move to date against the state's medical-marijuana industry Thursday, sending letters to 23 dispensaries ordering them to close.

At Highland Health medical-marijuana dispensary in Denver, the renovations are only barely completed. But they're something co-owner Diane Irwin is going to have to walk away from within the next month if she wants to stay out of federal prison.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - No new marijuana dispensaries will be allowed in Boulder until at least November while the city reviews laws and policies on the sale of the drug over cost concerns.

The LAPD's Devonshire Division has done a thorough job of closing the area's pot dispensaries. Legitimate medical marijuana patients are the ones to suffer for it. Forget years of conflicting rules, hazy regulations, hard lines and soft bans.

The LAPD's Devonshire Division has done a thorough job of closing the area's pot dispensaries. Legitimate medical marijuana patients are the ones to suffer for it. Forget years of conflicting rules, hazy regulations, hard lines and soft bans.

Once again, Oakland is barreling into the pot frontier on its own. Federal officials have forced the shutdown of more than 200 medical marijuana dispensaries throughout California since fall, and the state Supreme Court...

DENVER (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors in Colorado started a crackdown against nearly two dozen medical marijuana dispensaries located within 1,000 feet of schools, giving the proprietors 45 days to cease operations or face civil and criminal penalties.

State health officials will be allowed to start the process for licensing medical-marijuana dispensaries after a decision by the governor, but a lawsuit and state bureaucracy could delay doors from opening for nearly a year or more.