A Gulf War veteran who legally uses medical marijuana to treat his post-traumatic stress disorder is fighting with Kansas child welfare officials for custody of five of his children, who were taken from him after a dispute in April, the Denver Post reports. According to their story, Raymond Schwab was told that a condition of the children’s return was that he provide four months of drug-free urinalysis tests, including cannabis.

This past June, three Santa Ana police officers were suspended after a video surfaced of them joking about kicking a woman in a wheelchair “in the fucking nub” and eating (what appears to be) weed-infused edibles during a raid of a medical marijuana dispensary. And now, those same cops want to ban that video from ever becoming evidence—because they didn’t realize they were on camera.

On Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled 6-0 that businesses have the right to terminate employees for using marijuana, even if they are off-duty at the time, upholding two lower court decisions, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers announced today a tentative deal to legalize medical marijuana in New York state, restricted to patients who consume edibles, take pills, or vaporize. Cuomo's administration were reportedly successful in their push for a no-smoking provision in the deal.

Today, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a bill that legalizes Charlotte's Web, a strain of cannabis that doesn't get you high, for treating conditions like cancer and epilepsy.

Last week, after years of back-and-forth, it looked like New York might finally pass medical marijuana. Governor Andrew Cuomo, who opposed the idea as recently as last year, was basically on board, and the Compassionate Care Act had already passed the state Assembly. All that was left was the Senate, where the bill reportedly had more than enough support.

Sanjay Gupta supports medical marijuana now, but that didn't stop his employer from trying to shut down sales of a new “Sanjay Gupta Kush” strain in Colorado. Why does CNN hate agriculture?

Investors getting glassy-eyed over the potential riches to be made in the "dot bong era" of legalized pot may want to proceed with caution. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued a warning this week about "potential scams associated with marijuana-related stocks."

Alert, medical professionals: television doctor and 2003 People magazine "Sexiest Man Alive" runner-up Sanjay Gupta now supports medical marijuana. Please update your science textbooks.

Medical marijuana for pets.

Last year, my boyfriend and I went to West Virginia to visit my mother while she was undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. It was the second time she’d been diagnosed in three years, and the side effects from these treatments were much worse. My previous understanding of cancer had come pretty exclusively from pastel paperbacks, all dignified vomiting and heads shaved in solidarity, but the reality seems more Dante than Nicolas Sparks. A half-joke about supplemental painkillers was soon brought, tentatively, to the table.

After just 20 minutes of public comments, North Carolina's House Rules Committee voted to reject a bill that would have legalized the possession and use of medical marijuana in the state.

Of the "Stoner Dog" meme, the website Meme Generator says, "it is very difficult not to look at this meme and burst out laughing immediately."

Team Breezy continues to be buffeted by gale force winds of legal misfortune: a California judge has just ordered further review of Chris Brown's community service and travel history, to determine whether he violated the terms of his five year probation, established following his 2009 beating of Rihanna.

The Los Angeles City Council has ruled to ban medical marijuana dispensaries, shutting down as many as 900 dispensaries in 30 days.

The family of a three-year-old boy from Murrieta, California, became alarmed when they couldn't rouse him from a 15-hour sleep before realizing the toddler had consumed several of his grandmother's special "space cookies."

Researchers continue to find new uses for medical marijuana, as more states begin to approve its use. A new study by the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (yep) tested the effect of marijuana on people with multiple sclerosis.

Today the Connecticut Senate passed a bill legalizing medical marijuana, becoming the 17th state to do so. The District of Columbia also allows for the medical use of marijuana.

Medical marijuana is a very controversial issue for cities across America, pitting individual freedoms against municipal concerns with a backdrop of blah blah, [boilerplate "on the one hand, on the other hand" here]. The real question is: how can medical marijuana win, forever? A foolproof legal strategy is now emerging.

What if I told you that having a medical marijuana dispensary near you could actually reduce crime in your neighborhood? You'd probably be like "duuuude," or some other stereotypically "stoner" thing, because your "glaucoma treatment" has been particularly good lately. Well, snap out of it, man: I'm here to tell you that a medical marijuana dispensary does not reduce crime in your neighborhood after all!