420 GIRLS

Eliane Detraz, a 42-year-old Swiss national member of the Sibaratas Med Can club, rolls a joint at the plantation of the association in Spain's Canary Islands in April 2013. Gabriela walks into a large, dimly lit apartment, goes to a counter, buys a bag of sativa and sits on the sofa with her friends, joint in hand, like in...

On May 19, 2011 Patricia Albright (pictured) and her 26-year-old son Jordan Wirtz of Nevada City were indicted by the federal government for growing 89 plants for 10 patients on Albright's property, which is now the object of a forfeiture action. Albright is facing a prison sentence of 7 1/2 years and Jordan 6 1/2 years. They were scheduled...

Partially paralyzed, in constant pain from multiple disorders and desperate for help after trying nearly three dozen doctor prescribed medications, Angel Raich, a product of a conservative upbringing that made her recoil from illegal drugs, decided pot, might be her last shot. It worked. Raich regained her appetite, felt less pain, got out of her wheelchair 18 months later...

Layla Bush, a volunteer at The Green Buddha medical marijuana collective, vaporizes cannabis in a dedicated room of the shop in Seattle, Washington. She said it is her preferred way to medicate because it is quickly felt and isn’t harsh on her lungs the way smoking is. Bush was injured in 2006 in Seattle, requiring use of a crutch.