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Victoria city council are moving forward to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries that have popped up on city streets, in an attempt to control a booming sector. There are currently 38 known medical marijuana-related businesses operating in Victoria that sell marijuana paraphernalia, provide...

Victoria city council are moving forward to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries that have popped up on city streets, in an attempt to control a booming sector. There are currently 38 known medical marijuana-related businesses operating in Victoria that sell marijuana paraphernalia, provide...

The Santa Rosa City Council declared Tuesday that medical marijuana support services such as testing labs and oil extraction businesses can legally be located in certain nonresidential areas of the city. The move, which takes effect immediately, opens up significant new areas of the city to...

Although the initiative to prohibit marijuana business in the Fairbanks North Star Borough outside of cities will not appear on this October's ballot, there are issues that still remain very problematic. In addition, Mr. Travis Fraser's community perspective of July 17, "Marijuana petition seeks...

For the past month, Grover Beach has been mulling the idea of capitalizing on a possibly lucrative business in San Luis Obispo County: marijuana sales. The discussion started in early July and at that time was mostly focused on taxing medical cannabis sales at the medical marijuana businesses...

For the past month, Grover Beach has been mulling the idea of capitalizing on a possibly lucrative business in San Luis Obispo County: marijuana sales. The discussion started in early July and at that time was mostly focused on taxing medical cannabis sales at the medical marijuana businesses...

The Chehalis City Council passed an amended ordinance on Monday night limiting the number of marijuana production, processing and growing facilities in the city to one, while allowing vested applications to continue. Although the new ordinance limits the facilities to one operation within...

In Los Angeles County, a "cannabis tax" that was designed to provide homeless services, may soon be scrapped. The Los Angeles Times reported that the Board of Supervisors pulled the tax due to fears that this could keep voters from passing the legalization measure in November. I'm not sure...

Colorado pot businesses are increasingly coming under scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service due to the industry's focus on cash, according to a report Tuesday from Marijuana Business Daily. Marijuana businesses such as dispensaries are known to deal predominantly in cash due to continued...

To get a job at Woodworkers Source, potential employees must pass a drug test. There's a good reason for that, said Keith Stephens, owner of the Scottsdale-based lumber-supply business: "Many, many businesses, including mine, have a certain element of risk. In my case it's driving a forklift...

Marijuana businesses that crop up around Ohio once the state's medical marijuana law goes into effect are likely to face a steep tax burden. A line in the Internal Revenue Code known as Section 280E prohibits businesses involved with the trafficking of illegal drugs from deducting any...

Marijuana businesses that crop up around Ohio once the state's medical marijuana law goes into effect are likely to face a steep tax burden. A line in the Internal Revenue Code known as Section 280E prohibits businesses involved with the trafficking of illegal drugs from deducting any...

Santa Rosa, which already permits commercial cultivation of medical marijuana, is considering whether to allow other types of pot businesses to set up shop in the city, too. The City Council's Medical Cannabis Policy Subcommittee today will review proposed interim regulations governing how...

Santa Rosa, which already permits commercial cultivation of medical marijuana, is considering whether to allow other types of pot businesses to set up shop in the city, too. The City Council's Medical Cannabis Policy Subcommittee today will review proposed interim regulations governing how...

Lihue, Hawaii State officials say they have yet to inspect Hawaii's eight licensed medical marijuana businesses, making it unlikely that the dispensaries will open by July 15, the earliest date legislators had allowed them to begin selling their products. The Garden Island reports that...

Lihue, Hawaii State officials say they have yet to inspect Hawaii's eight licensed medical marijuana businesses, making it unlikely that the dispensaries will open by July 15, the earliest date legislators had allowed them to begin selling their products. The Garden Island reports that...

At first pass, the sexiest aspect of the marijuana industry is probably 3-foot-tall plants that grow psychoactive flowers. But it gets hotter (not): wonky tax code experts who are fighting the federal government over an obscure tax code that is crippling small businesses across the legal...

Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy vetoed the County Council's latest attempt to ban marijuana businesses Thursday, the eve of the expiration of the county's old ban. "I am vetoing this ordinance because my job as an elected official requires me to advance the will of the people who voted...

In a move that opens the door to state-licensed retail marijuana businesses, Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy has blocked a proposed county ordinance that would have asked the county's Planning Commission to consider amendments to county regulations for producing and selling. McCarthy's...

U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES MARIJUANA BANKING A new measure has been approved by the U.S. Senate Committee that would allow banking institutions to offer financial services to marijuana businesses. State-legalized marijuana businesses will soon be able to operate as a traditional business...