Happily isolated on California's remote Humboldt County coast, Arcata has long made room in its heart for marijuana, whether grown illegally in the back woods by refugees of the Summer of Love, or legally in the back rooms of homes by medical pot patients.

The debate over how much tax money recreational marijuana laws could produce is playing an outsize role in the campaigns for and against legalization - and both sides concede they're not really sure what would happen.

If supporters can get the initiative on the ballot and approved by voters, it would allow any adult over 21 to buy pot at a state licensed store or grow it in Oregon.

Warned of dangers and legal chaos, California voters Tuesday rejected a measure that would have made their state the first to legalize the use and sale of marijuana.

If a November ballot measure in California passes the lawmaker says he'd like to introduce legislation that would out-and-out legalize marijuana in Oregon.

From above, the bushy green plants in backyard after backyard resemble English topiary gardens, neat and tidy.

A helicopter flight this month with U.S. Rep. Greg Walden revealed numerous cannabis crops growing adjacent to homes in every community in Jackson and Josephine counties, ostensibly to service the area's more than 7,000 medical marijuana cardholders.

Would you support the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2010? Supporters of the initiative gathered signatures at the Global Marijuana March in Downtown Eugene on Saturday.

Advocates of legalizing marijuana are quick to compare it to alcohol, both in terms of regulation and possible revenue through taxes. But what is the real cost of alcohol? One man says the revenue doesn't come close to paying the social tab, and pot...

While state budgets in Oregon and Washington face gaping holes, advocates of legalizing marijuana say taxing pot can help fill those holes. Critics say growers will remain secretive and won't let themselves be taxed.

Los Angeles has more pot shops than Starbucks or schools, and the surge in medical marijuana in California has left many communities scrambling to regulate the free-for-all, while others are trying to ban the drug altogether.

Supporters said their plan would send 90 percent of the proceeds from the state sale of marijuana to the General Fund as well as support drug abuse education and treatment programs.