Marijuana Use

A new survey of Indiana teens finds that overall drug and alcohol use is down, although marijuana smoking is slightly more common. The annual survey by Indiana University's Indiana Prevention Resource Center says that 14.6 of high school sophomores...

It might take Californians a puff or two to get their heads around an apparent contradiction recently enshrined in state law. The same marijuana smoke that doctors can recommend to ease cancer patients' suffering must soon come with a warning saying it...

MIAMI -- In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to...

LOS ANGELES- Cheryl Shuman is an activist and a survivor who's staring down her own mortality. It has truly been a difficult road for the medical marijuana user. Before she began her work to reform marijuana laws, Cheryl was known as the 'Optician to...

The federal government's annual report of kids' alcohol and drug abuse and attitudes about that abuse seems reassuring enough: Compared with that of recent years, marijuana use is down, use of hallucinogens is way down and use of methamphetamine is......

A former Florida Gators player talks about the changed marijuana culture at Florida....

Aaron Hernandez, former UF tight end and New England Patriots draft choice, tests positive for marijuana...

A new Times/USC poll offers an unusually detailed look at who is using marijuana in California. Among the 1,506 registered voters surveyed May 19-26, 37% said they had tried pot -- a figure roughly consistent with federal surveys of drug......

As a disclaimer to this story, we???d like to emphasize that smoking cannabis and driving under its influence is illegal. Still, a recent study by the National Institutes of Health found that drivers under the influence of marijuana showed no......

Several commenters and critics have sniffed that they recall I was quite enthusiastic about Blagojevich early on. Not so. A review of the archives from his election through the end of 2003 finds mostly offhand references, little praise and such......

Chicago native John Paul Stevens is retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court, and at least four people with Chicago ties are in the running. There are Diane Wood and Ann C. Williams, who are federal appeals judges here, plus Merrick Garland, a Washington-...

Despite criticism from some religious leaders who have called on her to resign her post, Alice Huffman, president of the NAACP's California chapter, said last week that she will not retract her support of an initiative to legalize marijuana in the state,...