The photo is the first salvo in Lee’s new mission: He’s become a foot soldier in the grassroots crusade to get medical marijuana legalized in Missouri.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - A marijuana advocacy group in the nation's capital plans to target members of Congress on Capitol Hill with two separate protests this April.

Public support for marijuana legalization surged in 2016, according to data just released from the General Social Survey.

The New Jersey Department of Health, which regulates medical marijuana, has long taken a hands-off approach, telling patients they are free to create edibles with the raw cannabis that is sold.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a battle that sometimes continues even after a veteran puts away their combat boots. 12News sat down with a Jefferson County man who served two tours in Iraq and now has PTSD. The vet is asking lawmakers to let him use pot.

Some veterans say cannabis has been effective in treating everything from chronic pain to anxiety, depression, anger management and even Multiple Sclerosis.

Adults in late middle age tended to consume more cannabis than those of retirement age – but that seems to be quickly changing.

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well with some San Francisco Girl Scouts who made a bet with a local pot dispensary, all in the name of fundraising.

The program offers veterans an alternative to addictive pharmaceutical drugs.