World class athletes have been caught using recreational drugs for years but what makes the recent cases of Tim Lincecum, Michael Phelps, and Santonio Holmes remarkable is that they have been outed at the peak of their careers. In these three instances, law enforcement has helped obliterate the mainstream myth that marijuana smokers cannot be overachievers in amazing physical conditions.

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These days, medical marijuana clinics are popping up like weeds in California. Los Angeles alone has nearly 1,000 places where, with a doctor's note, you can legally buy pot.

But the illegal side of marijuana is also thriving. Authorities say it's partly because all those pot clinics have boosted the demand. That means the state spends millions of dollars trying to wipe out a plant that's already sanctioned.

Since 1974 HIGH TIMES has been tracking strains and prices at home and abroad. While the magazine has changed a great deal since the mid-‘70s, THMQ has remained a constant and become the source of information on the marijuana market. This was possible thanks to the thousands of readers over the years who’ve sent us the straight dope about their local smoke. Now it’s time to kick back, light up, and enjoy a very special THMQ featuring 35 years of pot in America (condensed).

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A 24-year-old aspiring businessman says he's teaching Michigan residents how to grow medical marijuana at his new "Med Grow Cannabis College."

Nick Tennant founded his school this year after an auto-detailing business he started after high school failed, The New York Times reported Sunday.

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denverpost.com

DENVER Inside the green neon sign, which is shaped like a marijuana leaf, is a red cross. The cross serves the fiction that most transactions in the store -- which is what it really is -- involve medicine.

washingtonpost.com

At the Peace in Medicine Healing Center in Sebastopol, the wares on display include dried marijuana — featuring brands like Kryptonite, Voodoo Daddy and Train Wreck — and medicinal cookies arrayed below a sign saying, “Keep Out of Reach of Your Mother.”

The warning tells a story of its own: some of the center’s clients are too young to buy themselves a beer.

Several Bay Area doctors who recommend medical marijuana for their patients said in recent interviews that their client base had expanded to include teenagers with psychiatric conditions including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

nytimes.com

The Bust -- By the numbers

3 -police agencies involved 36 -people charged 127 -charges laid

60 -kilograms of ecstasy seized 1,576 -pot plants seized

300,000 -dollar amount of cash, vehicles and boats seized

2,600,000 -total dollar amount of all the drugs seized

chathamdailynews.ca

More than 3,700 pounds of marijuana was seized and nine people were arrested on Saturday after a traffic stop led local and federal authorities to two homes in Sierra Vista.

The chain of events was sent in motion last week when the Sierra Vista Police Department informed Immigration and Customs Enforcement of “suspicious vehicle activity,” in the area of Ironmaster Street.

svherald.com