ATLANTA -- A Georgia state senator with the last name "Stoner" has put his name on a bill to ban the sale of so-called "Stoner Pops" to minors. The legal lollipops taste like illegal marijuana and critics say they help hook youngsters on the real thing. http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=113814

Workers who use medical marijuana at home can be fired by their employer if they test positive for the drug on the job. The California Supreme Court made that ruling Thursday.The case revolves around Gary Ross, a Sacramento computer systems administrator, who was fired by his employer, RagingWire Communications, after a drug test showed marijuana in system.Posted by Chris Bennett

GEAUGA COUNTY -- Remember that half million dollar marijuana bust in Geauga County last month? Well, some of that marijuana is missing. A portion of the pot that was confiscated from a home in Chardon, was being stored in a trailer outside a secured undercover operation. The missing pot had just returned from being processed in the crime lab.Someone cut the lock off the trailer and stole four bags or about 15 pounds of the unprocessed pot.Posted by Chris Bennett.

CINCINNATI -- A legal plant that gives a potent high may not be legal in Ohio much longer.When Cincinnati TV station WLWT sent cameras inside stores selling Salvia divinorum, reporters said they found it as easy to obtain as buying a pack of cigarettes.That's because it's perfectly legal, but powerful enough to take users on a psychedelic journey.Posted by Chris Bennett http://www.newsnet5.com/family/13711938/detail.html

SAN DIEGO -- A drug once used for religious reasons has now found a new circle of users, and the Internet is playing a big part it its rise."You get visual and audio hallucinations. It’s kind of an out of body experience," said local poison expert Dr. Lee Cantrell.Cantrell is referring to the hallucinogenic drug Salvia. Posted by Chris Bennett http://www.10news.com/news/13691125/detail.html

SHERMAN OAKS, July 17, 2007 (KABC-TV) - Four people have been arrested in raids on marijuana clinics in California, including facilities in Corona and West Hollywood. In Sherman Oaks, the operator of one marijuana dispensary says he's going to shut down voluntarily -- under pressure. Posted by Chris Bennett http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=5482234

Some dude got busted selling weed from an Ice Cream Truck in Texas. Pitty the poor fool. http://video.ap.org/v/Default.aspx?partner=en-ap&g=d4c10417-f25d-4222-9d00-c17173d24edc&t=m318&p=ENAPus_ENAPus&f=7219&

A Vancouver firefighter has been placed on administrative leave after police raided his home over an alleged marijuana grow op."This member is 44 years of age and has been with the department for 24 years," Rob Jones-Cook, a Vancouver fire department spokesman, told CTV British Columbia about Randall Jones. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070415/firefighter_busted_070415/20070415?hub=TopStories

The City of Vaughan has demolished a home used as a marijuana grow-operation in a symbolic gesture to illustrate that the drug operations won't be tolerated."The key message here today that we really want to get out is that now we've been mediating grow-ops and former grow-ops," said Mayor Linda Jackson. http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20070417/grwo-op_home_destroyed_070417/20070417?hub=TorontoHome

(AP) LAFAYETTE, Colo. A judge has resigned to protest a proposal to impose stiffer city penalties in Lafayette for marijuana possession.Leon Frieling, a Boulder attorney, resigned Monday as an associate municipal judge, citing an ordinance that would set a fine of up to $1,000 and a jail term of up to a year for marijuana. The existing city fine is $100, the same penalty set under state law. http://cbs4denver.com/local/local_story_044124951.html