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Alaska marijuana grower Mike Emers has been losing sleep with a vote fast approaching that he says could shutter his family's business and financially ruin them. The statewide initiative that legalized recreational marijuana in 2014 allows local governments to ban pot businesses within their...

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...

Fourteen Potential Colorado marijuana business owners put their names in a lottery for the opportunity to open a retail marijuana store in Palisade. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports the bingo-style drawing was held Wednesday at the Palisade Civic Center to determine which of the...

Ever since the approval of Proposition 215–the Compassionate Use Act, which permits the use of medical cannabis in California–activists, advocates and users have collectively fantasized about a day when procuring herbal refreshments was as easy as picking up produce from the market or allergy...

The cannabis application period closed Monday, meaning companies are one step closer to finding out if they will be allowed to obtain permits to do business in Hanford. The application period opened Aug. 2 and gave medical cannabis businesses a full two months to perfect their applications...

Tribal leaders from California and Washington state last week discussed the potential opening of legal marijuana businesses on tribal lands. Several members of the National Indian Gaming Association attended the meeting and touted the financial and health rewards. David Vialpando, Santa Ysabel...

Los Angeles lawmakers tentatively backed a sweeping set of proposed regulations for businesses that grow, sell, process and distribute marijuana Monday, the next step toward giving cannabis the stamp of local legitimacy. But industry groups said that recent changes to the proposed rules would...

Ventura County supervisors are being asked Tuesday to start the process for banning businesses that sell or produce marijuana for recreational use, but also order an analysis of the potential for growing hemp. Supervisors Linda Parks and John Zaragoza called for the ban in the unincorporated...

Fairbanks and the Kenai Peninsula Borough could outlaw marijuana businesses. So what's at stake? On October 3, three communities will decide if they will allow cannabis retail sales. The city of Fairbanks, the Fairbanks North Star Borough, and the Kenai Peninsula Borough will head to the...

Carbondale trustees are leaning toward eliminating the town's cap on recreational marijuana shops, while also tightening the time frame that newly licensed shops have to get up and running. This discussion came up during a Tuesday work session after a couple instances of marijuana businesses...

Recreational marijuana is so popular in Hermosa Beach that voters there delivered the third-highest percentage of support in the county for Proposition 64, behind only Santa Monica and West Hollywood. But unlike those cities to its north, which are readying permit processes for some...

Monday, the city of San Diego is set to debate the last remaining question before the City Council about marijuana: Where should businesses that manufacture, cultivate, distribute and test it be allowed? Or should they be allowed at all? Delivery services are also hoping the City Council...

A marketing campaign to "Support Santa Cruz Cannabis" will kick off at 7 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St. GreenTrade Santa Cruz, a coalition of local cannabis businesses, will present a vision for how Santa Cruz businesses can capture their share of an...

The state-run "Made in Alaska" program is accepting applications from marijuana businesses. According to records obtained by the Empire via a state information act request, a Nikiski business known variously as Hempco LLC and Alaska Cannabis Company, applied for a Made in Alaska...

The U.S. Department of Justice is secretly using the Internal Revenue Service to conduct criminal investigations into otherwise legitimate marijuana businesses in Colorado under the guise of tax audits, lawyers for the companies say in an ongoing federal lawsuit. The IRS called the...

Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen is cracking down on medical-marijuana businesses he says are evading as much as $1.5 million in property taxes each year by failing to report the value of the equipment they use. Only 11 of 109 medical-marijuana businesses this year submitted itemized...

There's plenty of cash circulating in the cannabis industry. The problem is finding a place to deposit it. Cannabis businesses don't want to conduct cash-only transactions, which can pose huge safety and security risks. Manufacturers and dispensaries end up with large amounts of cash on hand...

Local women in cannabis came together Sunday to celebrate their achievements and learn from each other for first 'Celebrate Women of Cannabis Conference' in the Arcata Community Center. Attendees came out to hear from expert educational cannabis speakers and learn about local up-and-coming...

As California braces for the impact of relaxed marijuana laws that allow recreational use for adults, several small, financially strapped cities in southeast Los Angeles and elsewhere are at the forefront of efforts to seize business opportunities — despite pushback from some residents. In Los...

The marijuana industry in Chiloquin is gaining momentum as an increasing number of businesses plan to locate within the city. Since the start of the year, at least three businesses have either committed to, or are exploring, the possibility of moving into town, including two dispensaries and...