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Medical professionals, state legislators and local advocacy groups will be under one roof Thursday night. The topic? Medical cannabis. The Compassionate Care Act was introduced last session. It would allow medical cannabis for people with certain medical conditions like multiple sclerosis or...

During the 2017 state legislative session, a bill was introduced that would legalize medical marijuana in South Carolina. Now an advocacy group is making preparations to push that bill across the finish line in 2018. Compassionate SC, a group that, according to its website, is advocating "to...

Gov. Paul LePage has 10 days to decide whether to sign a marijuana bill adopted by state legislators in special session Monday. The two-term Republican has sent mixed messages on the measure that passed in both houses but fell shy of the two-thirds majority required to override a...

"Hemp is an agricultural commodity and should be treated as such in Wisconsin law," Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D-Alma, said when commenting on the recent passage of Senate Bill 119 by the Committee on Agriculture, Small Business and Tourism. Vinehout, as a member of the committee, tried to amend...

In a late-night vote, lawmakers passed a bill addressing recreational marijuana rules. The vote came during a one-day special session at the state house. The bill now heads to Governor LePage's desk, where he has ten days to either sign it, veto it, or let it go into law without his...

Questions and answers on Maine pot legislation. Q: How many marijuana bills will state lawmakers consider at the special session? A: Two. One is a regulatory bill, L.D. 1650, that was created by the Joint Select Committee on Marijuana Legalization Implementation, and the other is a...

The Maine state legislature is set to vote on two different proposals Monday that will decide the timeline for purchasing recreational marijuana. The Maine Joint Select Committee on Marijuana Legalization implementation, or MLI, has been working on a bill to regulate marijuana infrastructure...

Public and industry support is growing for the regulation and use of cannabis plants, both in terms of marijuana legalization for medical and recreational use and industrial hemp as an agricultural crop. 
 At least 33 states have passed legislation to allow for industrial hemp and 29 states...

The state Senate's agriculture committee has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would allow Wisconsin farmers to grow hemp. The panel voted unanimously Wednesday to approve the proposal. The vote clears the way for a full floor vote in the Senate. The bill would set up state licenses for...

Legalize Maine has come out against the proposed legislative rewrite of a voter-approved recreational marijuana law, saying the bill scheduled for a special session vote Monday isn't "ready for prime time." The group's president, Paul T. McCarrier, said the amendment to the state Marijuana...

The Latest on a bill that would legalize industrial hemp in Wisconsin (all times local): 10:35 a.m. Two Republican lawmakers are making the case for their bill legalizing industrial hemp in Wisconsin. Rep. Jesse Kremer and Sen. Patrick Testin held a news conference Tuesday ahead of a...

The House of Commons Health Committee has completed its study of Bill C-45, the government's bill to legalize marijuana, and has made some tweaks to the government's proposal, including cutting out the height restriction on homegrown marijuana plants. The original version of the legislation...

Dozens of towns around the state have spent the past year scrambling to ban recreational marijuana operations within their borders since voters approved legalization last November. But a last-minute change to a proposed legislative rewrite of the Marijuana Legalization Act would make those...

A Wisconsin congressman is supporting a bill that would allow American farmers to grow industrial hemp. Sixth District congressman Glenn Grothman said he can't imagine any reasons to object to returning hemp as a crop for Wisconsin farmers. "It was something that we used to grow in the...

The Senate is not inclined to pass a medical marijuana bill, according to Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III. Sotto said on Sunday that the Senate had no medical marijuana bill. He said that while newspapers reported that a medical marijuana bill had cleared the health committee of...

Despite months of work by lawmakers on a special committee, a bill that would set in motion the legal sale of recreational marijuana in Maine faces an uncertain future, with a top State House leader who could hold the key to the bill's final passage expressing serious concerns about the...

A key panel of lawmakers has approved the language of Maine's new recreational marijuana law. The state's Marijuana Legalization Implementation Committee voted to approve the proposed regulations of Maine's recreational cannabis market. Sales tax was discussed Thursday- lawmakers laid out how...

A legislative committee plans to consider a bill to double the recreational marijuana sales tax to 20 percent and ban marijuana social clubs until 2019. The Legislature's Joint Select Committee on Marijuana Legalization Implementation is set to vote Thursday on whether to recommend the...

Advocates of medical marijuana are in high spirits after the health committee of the House of Representatives endorsed a bill allowing the use of cannabis to treat chronic or debilitating health conditions. The House panel on Monday unanimously approved the committee draft report on the...

A day after a dramatic five-hour public hearing, the legislative committee that is shaping the new marijuana market's regulations began whittling away at its draft bill Wednesday in Augusta. The committee must complete its work by Thursday evening to get the bill ready for a late-October special...