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Medical marijuana dispensaries should no longer be able to accept California doctors' recommendations from out-of-state patients to purchase in Nevada, according to an opinion from the state Attorney General's Office, sent this week to the Department of Health and Human Services. In a letter...

Medical marijuana dispensaries should no longer be able to accept California doctors' recommendations from out-of-state patients to purchase in Nevada, according to an opinion from the state Attorney General's Office, sent this week to the Department of Health and Human Services. In a letter...

Philadelphia - Gavin Newsom is a little tired of being the only state official in California to fully endorse legalizing recreational marijuana. Speaking with The Huffington Post at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, the lieutenant governor said it's time for others to take a...

California's historic medical-marijuana regulations are reshaping the state's multibillion-dollar industry - but niche areas remain in a legal limbo. Consider the Chalice California hash and glass-art bash, which went down in the high desert of Southern California earlier this month. Wu-Tang...

Legalizing and taxing weed could be very good for California's homeless. When California voters head to the polls this November, they'll have the opportunity to decide whether or not to levy a 10 percent tax on marijuana businesses to help fund housing and health services for homeless people...

You've seen fire sales. They happen when goods or real estate are discounted sharply after fire damages a store or a building. But the term has new meaning in rural Calaveras County, where the devastating Butte Fire swept through thousands of acres last year, the seventh-worst wildfire in...

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Voters in at least eight states, including Florida, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada, will decide on marijuana-related ballot initiatives this November. The most high-profile and far-reaching of these campaigns is California's Adult Use Marijuana Act (Proposition 64), which permits adults to...

With California voters poised to pass a referendum legalizing recreational marijuana use in November, the farmers supplying 758,607 residents holding medical marijuana prescriptions will now be subject to the state's stringent agricultural water use laws. No one knows just how big the...

Claremont Custody Center in Coalinga, California is set to be repurposed as a medical marijuana production facility, after Coalinga city officials jointly agreed to sell the building to a local firm, Ocean Grown Extracts, to the tune of $4.1 million - conveniently covering the city's $3.8...

Claremont Custody Center in Coalinga, California is set to be repurposed as a medical marijuana production facility, after Coalinga city officials jointly agreed to sell the building to a local firm, Ocean Grown Extracts, to the tune of $4.1 million - conveniently covering the city's $3.8...

The architects and defenders of Proposition 64, the upcoming statewide referendum that would legalize adult cannabis use in California, say that they've gone to great lengths to address concerns expressed by the medical-cannabis community, which is split on the question of adult legalization...

The Golden State has been a leader in cannabis culture and policy. California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana 20 years ago. Soon, it could become the fifth and largest state to approve recreational use, with an initiative on the ballot for voters this November. California's...

The marijuana legalization initiative that will be on the November ballot in California is a disappointment to many in the cannabis decriminalization movement. California NORML, the granddaddy of political pot groups, has not fully endorsed it. These critics say that Proposition 64, which...

This fall, California voters will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana. Law enforcement groups have donated most of the money to defeat the measure, Proposition 64. Another group that's contributed to the anti campaign is less expected: The California Teamsters. Campaign records...

Voters on both sides of the state line will have the chance to decide whether recreational marijuana use should be legal for people 21 and over this November. On June 28, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced the Adult Use of Marijuana Act had qualified for the Nov. 8 ballot as...

Drug felony arrests plummeted in California in response to 2014's voter-enacted Proposition 47 - which changed various state drug laws from felonies to misdemeanors, according to new data from the California Attorney General. Felony arrests for drugs dropped by between 68.2 percent and 73.6...

Washington - When Lynette Davies, co-operator of the Canna Care medical marijuana dispensary in Sacramento, pays her California taxes she needs to haul a bag with $20,000 in cash to the state tax office. "That's really unsafe for me, and it's unsafe for my employees to have this cash in the...

California medical cannabis customers could be losing about 25 percent of their precious bud purchases to poor weights and measures at the register. Now, state regulators are stepping in. This June, the California Division of Measurement Standards released a brochure for the state's roughly...

Last week California's pot legalization initiative, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, qualified for the ballot in November, setting the stage for a vote that will have ramifications far beyond California's borders. There are several reasons why if the AUMA passes, it will make California the...