ALISON STEWART: Adam Hayward is the sheriff of Deuel County, Nebraska, which is right by the state line with Colorado. Sheriff Hayward says his work hasn’t been the same since Colorado legalized recreational marijuana.

SHERIFF ADAM HAYWARD: Keep it over there. It’s still illegal here. We don’t have a choice. We have to enforce the law.

ALISON STEWART: The sheriff says he’s arrested all sorts of people carrying marijuana back from Colorado along Interstate 76: teenagers making weekend runs to Denver and once a 67 year old grandmother. With each arrest the sheriff collects more and more marijuana. It is cataloged and then stored in the Deuel County jail cell.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is studying the plausibility of a tightly crafted medical marijuana proposal.

DeWine says it's logical as the state debates whether to legalize marijuana to explore what the alternatives are.

DeWine, a Republican who opposes legalizing recreational marijuana, says he's talked to many people around Ohio in favor of medical marijuana if they could be assured it wouldn't be abused.

DeWine said it's worth studying what is happening in other states when it comes to medical marijuana. He stopped short of saying the goal would be to undercut the widespread legalization of the drug in Ohio or what form a proposal might take.

LIVERMORE -- When police swooped in and effectively shut down the city's lone medical marijuana collective in a raid in March, cannabis advocates weren't surprised.

They said the action was emblematic of Livermore's heavy-handed crackdown on medical marijuana patients, exerting a level of force unlike any they've seen in other major Bay Area cities. Police, on the other hand, insist the people they are arresting are manipulating the law and committing criminal acts.

Nineteen years after California legalized medical cannabis, advocates claim that numerous card-carrying Livermore residents have had their families broken up and assets seized, and lost their homes, for doing what they thought was allowed under state law.

Broken Coast Cannabis is a medical cannabis producer on Vancouver Island, growing inside a 12,000 sq ft envelope about halfway between Nanaimo and Victoria. With 14 growing rooms on two floors, they currently produce 11 varieties in a rotating harvest schedule. 6 strains are currently available and the company plans on releasing several others in the coming months based on customer feedback for various strains and profiles.

The Senate Appropriations Committee just voted in favor of the Veterans Equal Access Amendment, which would legally authorize the Veterans Administration (VA) to recommend medical marijuana to people who served in the military.

While Uncle Sam is still not convinced there is enough applicable science behind the healing theories of medical marijuana to allow veterans suffering from debilitating mental conditions to have access to the herb, researchers are finally moving forward with a federally approved study that could result in cannabis being used as an acceptable treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.

TORONTO , May 21, 2015 /CNW/ - Bedrocan Cannabis Corp. ("Bedrocan" or "the Company") (BED.V) announced its financial and operational results for the three and thirteen month periods ended January 31, 2015 . Bedrocan Cannabis Corp's wholly owned subsidiary Bedrocan Canada Inc. is a Licensed Producer under the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR).

Q4 and Year-End Financial and Operational Highlights:

House appropriators have a bipartisan curiosity about pot.

Lawmakers added a provision to the fiscal year 2016 Commerce-Justice-Science spending bill that would direct the Drug Enforcement Administration to research how well medical marijuana works.

Outspoken House members from both sides of the medical marijuana debate back the effort because both sides expect the science to support their position.

Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., a physician and House Appropriations Committee member who last year said, “This is not a medicine,” in a floor debate, worked to include the provision in the bill. The language became part of the $51.4 billion C-J-S bill in an 11-page manager’s amendment on Wednesday.

DENVER (ABC News) -- An Ohio family moved 1,200 miles to get a medical marijuana derivative for their 3-year-old to give her some relief from her seizures, and they say it's working.

Addyson Benton began having tiny seizures when she was just 9 months old, her mother, Heather Benton, told ABC News. Her eyes would glaze over and she would jerk as if she was catching herself falling asleep. Soon, the seizures got worse, doctors learned that Addyson was having more than 1,000 a day, and they diagnosed her with severe intractable myoclonic epilepsy, Benton said.

"It was just a nightmare," Benton said, adding that the seizure medications didn't work and made Addyson strangely aggressive or sleepy. "We could not find anything to control them and they were getting worse."

A landmark deal to grow a high-strain medicinal cannabis on Norfolk Island for export to Canada is in jeopardy, with the Australian government reviewing the decision.

Last week, Perth-based AusCann Group Holdings was granted a licence by the Norfolk Island government, a self-governing external Australian territory, to grow a high-grade medicinal strain of cannabis. AusCann intends to export its first crop to Canada by July next year.

However, the granting of the licence came after the Australian government passed legislation to abolish Norfolk’s Island parliament and replace it with a local council, which means the island government is effectively in caretaker mode while its laws are brought in line with Australian ones.