Medical marijuana users say police are confiscating their doctor’s notes outside a Palm Desert dispensary. Some say it's harassment. Police say they're just doing their job.Now, Palm Desert city leaders are trying to work out a compromise. http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=4317060&nav=9qrx

Marijuana has been around for a long time. That's why some drug counselors say people see marijuana as harmless but it's more threatening than you might think.These packages of marijuana now sit in evidence after Marathon County investigators seized them.This is a high quality variety worth around $90,000 on the street. It's that high quality factor that worries drug treatment providers."The truth of it is, it's eight times more powerful than it was back in the 1970s," says Dale Christensen, Director of Drug/Alcohol Treatment at North Central Healthcare.

December 22 - A Wichita family gets a big surprise in the mail, but not anything they'd want to put under the tree. It was a package filled with 30 pounds of marijuana.The two bricks of marijuana were delivered by Federal Express on Thursday. The pot has a street value of about $12,000. The package had a return address from California. http://www.kake.com/news/headlines/2110362.html

Last week, Washington County authorities arrested four people for allegedly growing marijuana at three different homes in Saint Paul Park.The big bust resulted in the seizure of more than 2,000 pot plants.It began last Monday at 1335 3rd St., where authorities opened the door and found 365 marijuana plants.Sheriff Steve Pott called it part of the biggest marijuana growing operation in recent memory. http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=114190

Kern County Supervisors unanimously approved a Medical Marijuana ID Card program Tuesday, making it among the first in the state.County lawyers advised the board to delay a decision on the state mandated program.The lawmakers wanted to see how San Diego County was planning to fight the rules. http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=7A69C68E-75BD-480E-BD21-2B53E2B3A853

SAN FRANCISCO -- Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco this evening, just hours after protesters celebrated scaring the DEA agents away.The daylong protest involved nearly 100 demonstrators who gathered outside HopeNet, a medical marijuana co-op at 223 Ninth St., after DEA agents raided the home of the co-op's directors this morning. http://www.foxreno.com/news/5592000/detail.html

DOUGLAS COUNTY - Eight Mountain Vista High School students were found smoking marijuana laced with heroin Thursday http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=2fa9d040-0abe-421a-0193-91f0fd98d11a&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

SARASOTA, Fla. -- A bird with a buzz found in a Florida family's Christmas tree is getting ready to go back into the wild.The little screech owl was found in the tree, which the family had kept for five days before deciding to decorate it.Animal control officers from Pelican Man's Bird Sanctuary came to get the owl, and said they smelled a strange odor on it when they did.

SAN DIEGO -- Protestors rallied to stop the crackdown on medical marijuana.The Drug Enforcement Agency and local police raided 13 dispensaries of medical marijuana Monday, including the Purple Coconut, on El Cajon Boulevard.Tuesday, there was a demonstration of solidarity by some of those targeted. http://www.10news.com/news/5529325/detail.html

SAN DIEGO -- Raids began Monday afternoon against several medical marijuana dispensaries in San Diego.Authorities swooped down on locations where pot is sold in violation of federal law, which is at odds with state law.Federal law supercedes state law, and the debate over using marijuana to combat pain has reached the U.S. Supreme Court. http://www.10news.com/news/5521568/detail.html