Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ended his first legislative session this week by saying recreational or medicinal marijuana won't become legal while he's in office.
In news out of Longview, Texas, on Monday, State Rep. David Simpson filed House Bill 2165, in favor of removing the prohibition on marijuana in the state of Texas. Rep. Simpson says marijuana should be regulated like tomatoes, jalapenos and coffee.
A Texas rancher got the surprise of his life when he discovered $2 million in marijuana plants growing on property he recently leased from the Army Corp of Engineers.
Two states...Colorado and Washington...became the first states to legalize marijuana for ALL uses. Meaning, even recreational use. A similar measure in Oregon failed.
It's April 20th, also known as 4/20, the day everyone associates with marijuana. So how did the number '420' become connected to smoking the illegal (in some states) substance?
Sounds like a bad cartoon, but Mexican drug smugglers were caught — on video — catapulting bags of marijuana over the border. Infrared surveillance cameras at the Arizona/Mexico border have captured images of Mexican drug smugglers using a nine-foot-tall catapult to hurl 45-pound bags of marijuana over a border wall and into the U.S.