Colorado will follow suit next month, when laws formally decriminalising the possession of marijuana take effect.
The New Orleans prosecutors planning to charge Durst with crimes relating to the gun and the marijuana took no position on the question.
There, an officer asked him if he had marijuana, took off his sneakers and patted down his socks, before releasing him, Mr. Peart testified.
Of course, not everyone who smokes a cigarette, be it tobacco or marijuana, takes a drink, snorts cocaine or self-injects morphine is destined to become an addict.
Corruption, in turn, has compromised at least a half-dozen county sheriff operations since marijuana took root as big business in the 1980's.
A citizens' group hoping to make Alaska the third state in the nation to legalize recreational use of marijuana took a step closer Wednesday, submitting more than 46,000 signatures to the state election office.
A policy barring foreign tourists from buying marijuana took effect in three southern provinces on Tuesday, with attention focused on the city of Maastricht, which borders Belgium and is near Germany, where more than a million foreigners a year go to buy marijuana.
Marijuana took away my nausea, so I could eat healthy.
Dustin, left, and Paul of Tacoma, Wash., both of whom declined to give their last names, share a water pipe beneath the Seattle Space Needle the day a law legalizing the recreational use of marijuana took effect on Dec. 6, 2012.
Because marijuana takes some time to grow and cultivate, NIDA says it "has to predict future research interest so that a customized order is ready once a researcher has obtained all the proper approvals" from all the federal agencies involved.
