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When: December 10 - 11, 8 AM - 5 PM Where: Sonoma County Fairgrounds 1350 Bennet Valley Rd Santa Rosa, CA 95404 United States The Emerald Cup is Northern California's premier destination for medicinal marijuana, while advancing the concept of sustainable, outdoor farming. Its reputation...

When: Tuesday, November 22 at 6:60 PM - 8 PM EST Where: 10 Tech Cir, Natick, Massachusetts 01760 Contact: (508) 655-7420 Interested in a career in the cannabis industry? The Northeast Institute of Cannabis in Natick is offering prospective students a chance to look around and learn about the...

Natick, MA - Interested in a career in the cannabis industry? The Northeast Institute of Cannabis in Natick is offering prospective students a chance to look around and learn about the programs. Classes include medical marijuana 101, patient services, medical use of marijuana in...

Staying ahead of the marijuana tourism curve, weed fans are about to be able to take advantage of new rules in Denver that ease restrictions on where you can smoke. "A new law in Denver, Colorado, that allows legal weed in certain bars and restaurants could give the state's "canna-tourism"...

The Cannabis Policy Development Working Group of Willits City Council is working to draft an ordinance for commercial cannabis cultivation licenses. Current City ordinance states "the cultivation of more than six marijuana plants at any location within city limits will likely result in an...

Small-scale commercial marijuana gardens would be permitted in Sonoma County's rural residential areas under a medical cannabis zoning ordinance approved by the county Planning Commission on Thursday night. The vote followed a renewed dispute between growers and residents who don't want the...

The Navajo Tribe is hoping to begin growing industrial hemp on its native lands next year, but there are numerous hurdles to be cleared before the first seeds can be planted. The tribe has signed a resolution and entered into the final stages of an agreement with Native American-owned...

Sometimes humor is the best way to get a serious point across, as brilliantly demonstrated by Adam Ruins Everything. On Nov. 8, in a "watershed moment," four states legalized recreational cannabis and four more legalized medical cannabis. The jig is completely up on pot prohibition. There is...

Retailers selling medical cannabis and derivatives will not collect sales or use taxes from card carrying patients or their caregivers. Authorities from the State Board of Equalization clarified new tax rules Thursday. Medical marijuana identification cards (MMIC's) will have to be shown to...

Neill Franklin, former undercover narcotics cop in Baltimore, was at the PAL in Wilmington, Del. last night making a case for legal marijuana. "Marijuana is what gets us [the police] into your pockets, into your cars and into everything else," Franklin told the group. Delaware decriminalized...

Ngaio Bealum is finally breathing easy. During a recent lunch hour at midtown's Hook & Ladder, exactly one week after Proposition 64 was passed by California voters, Sacramento's leading cannabis celebrity reached into the pocket of his sports coat, pulled out a small baggie filled with Red...

The head of a medical marijuana advocacy group is criticizing President-elect Donald Trump's pick of Jeff Sessions for U.S. Attorney General. Steph Sherer, executive director of Americans for Safe Access, said in an email Friday that the Republican Sessions "has criticized the morality of...

MedMen likens itself, as many cannabis companies do, to an early tech startup. Its West Hollywood dispensary looks a bit like an Apple store, with samples of product in polished glass cases and information about each on iPads. In a grow facility in Sun Valley, north of Los Angeles, marijuana...

Canadian medical marijuana producers are in the spotlight, thanks to high share prices and a more than $1 billion valuation for Ontario-based Canopy Growth Corp. So should Canadians consider the country's booming marijuana sector as an investment opportunity? Not necessarily, say investment...

You can buy pot legally in several states now, but using a debit card to pay has been a dicey proposition. Now CanPay says that it has created the first debit payment solution for cannabis shoppers in Washington, Oregon and Colorado. MasterCard and Visa have made it clear they have no...

California voters approved Proposition 64, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, by a vote of 56% to 44%. Voters in Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada also approved legalization measures. Medical cannabis had a big night, too. Voters approved or expanded medical cannabis laws in...

It's in the history books, folks. Arkansas is the first state in the Bible belt to pass medical marijuana - or cannabis, as its proponents prefer it be referred to. However, it will take several months for the new law to take place and allow for qualifying patients to buy the drug. When...

Columbus, Ga. — A local family is doing whatever it takes to help their son who's fighting autism. For the past eight months they've been treating him with cannabis oil. WRBL's Ashley Lewis is following up with the family to find out if they've seen significant progress in their cannabis...

Pekin, Ill. - It's been more than a year since medical marijuana dispensaries opened in Illinois, but now there's a different type of program. Chicago is the only other location in Illinois where this type of clinic can be found. Medical Cannabis Outreach, along with several physicians...

The history of cannabis in both the UK and the US is not a glorious one. It is a tale of racism, government crackdowns, the wilful confusion of public health with public order, and a fundamental dishonesty in refusing to consider cannabis under the same terms as tobacco and alcohol. And for...