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San Francisco's Board of Supervisors inched closer to creating a legal framework for the sale of recreational cannabis on Tuesday. At a special meeting of the board's Rules Committee, a quartet of supervisors approved a handful of amendments to the legislation that will govern how...

City leaders have a decision to make now that state lawmakers have revised medical marijuana laws. Traverse City officials must consider whether to allow five new types of medical marijuana-related businesses to operate within city limits, and if so, how many and where. The state Department...

Residents in Battle Creek are being asked for their input on whether the city should allow businesses to seek medical marijuana permits. The state is going to start allowing five different licenses starting December 15 at the discretion of local governments. The city wants to know what its...

In a very funny book published earlier this year, Sen. Al Franken's long passages on drug abuse are still funny, but they're also dark as hell. When it came to alcohol, the senator apparently grew up in a sort of puritanical family, so his first drink came freshman year of college. After that...

1915: Utah makes marijuana illegal. It's the second state in the nation (California was first) and the first one bordering Idaho to do so. 1923: Nevada, Oregon and Washington pass laws making marijuana illegal. 1927: Idaho passes a law making marijuana illegal. Nebraska, Kansas and...

The city council in San Diego is considering whether to OK marijuana cultivation locally once new state laws allowing recreational use take effect next year. The Los Angeles Times reports that the nine-member council is expected to weigh the issue Monday. The proposal would allow the...

Deerfield Beach is willing to welcome medical marijuana dispensaries in its borders, the City Commission decided in a split vote Tuesday night. In a 3-2 vote, a proposed ban on the dispensaries failed after a passionate discussion that included one commissioner admitting to baking illegal...

San Joaquin County plans to allow commercial cultivation of cannabis and dispensaries. The Board split 3-2 in the vote on the controversial issue. The hearing included a report from the staff, public comment, and after five hours the vote finally came. Dozens of people spoke both for and...

The state's House of Representatives marijuana bill contains a provision that could theoretically allow people to smoke joints in public if a city or town allows it. The intention is to give municipalities power to allow cannabis cafes, smoking weed at special events, or to allow people to...

Several states have legalized recreational use of cannabis but no state has yet created a state-sanctioned place for adults to legally consume cannabis. This leaves many consumers with no place to enjoy legal cannabis as no state permits public consumption. A bill in Nevada could make it the...

Denver – Colorado is moving ahead with a first-in-the-nation attempt to allow marijuana clubs. But the measure that passed a Republican state Senate committee Wednesday evening doesn't go as far as some marijuana activists hoped. And those clubs may allow indoor pot smoking, despite health...

The Knesset plenum approved in preliminary reading the amendment bill to the Dangerous Drugs Orders Law that will allow the export of medical cannabis. The measure that was initiated by MK Yoav Kisch (Likud) passed 33-0. "One of our duties as lawmakers is to act on issues that seem a bit...

Livermore - The City Council is moving toward dropping its ban on medical marijuana dispensaries. After an informal discussion on Monday night, the City Council decided to continue working toward drafting a policy in 2017 to allow at least one dispensary to open in an industrial to sell...

California voters did the easy part: they legalized marijuana. Proposition 64's approval was a big victory for people who consider the drug harmless and for those who hope to profit from growing and selling it. Yet, as anyone who has tried to buy marijuana since the election without a...

Benton City voters were slightly favoring allowing marijuana stores and growers in their city in the initial ballot count Tuesday. The difference is 20 votes with 311 votes for allowing pot businesses and 291 opposing. Proposition 16-9 was on the ballot to advise the Benton City Council on...

Lubbock, Texas - Advocates are working to allow Texas farmers to grow hemp, a cousin to marijuana. The Texas Hemp Industries Association highlighted the benefits provided by hemp and its many uses while pointing out that hemp is nothing like marijuana. In an effort to do just that, the Texas...

Last night, with a 3-2 vote, the Eureka City Council decided to allow medical marijuana businesses in city limits. If the California Coastal Commission approves the planned changes to the municipal code and local coastal plan, then by the middle of next year dispensaries, manufacturing and...

Last night, with a 3-2 vote, the Eureka City Council decided to allow medical marijuana businesses in city limits. If the California Coastal Commission approves the planned changes to the municipal code and local coastal plan, then by the middle of next year dispensaries, manufacturing and...

With the looming prospect of marijuana legalization come November, local governments across the state must grapple with the important question of how to respond to both medical and recreational marijuana. Residents in Costa Mesa and Laguna Beach will consider initiatives pertaining to medical...

Victoria's new marijuana retailing regulations coming into effect this month do not allow people to consume marijuana on site, Mayor Lisa Helps is stressing. "To be very clear, these bylaws are meant to make sure that people have access to their medicine. They are not meant to enable...