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It seems likely that Californians in November will vote to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, along with a massive raft of state regulation and taxation schemes. We bribe our government to secure permission to do what we want with our own bodies. Go figure. In any event, the...

It will be two years before qualifying Ohioans can buy medical marijuana from dispensaries, but some communities are putting a stop to the practice before it's started. A number of Ohio municipalities are taking steps to ban marijuana-related businesses since House Bill 523 passed in June...

If California voters back Proposition 64 to legalize marijuana in November, the state will have the lowest statewide excise taxes on weed in the country. Aside from the obvious response - cheaper legal weed! - this is an important development that shows California policymakers have learned...

Boston - In the four years since Massachusetts voters gave the green light to medical marijuana, only six facilities have opened across the entire state—and it may be because cities and towns require large payments to approve them. Boston attorney Jim Smith, who represents a medical marijuana...

Top county and city officials briefly considered the idea this month of putting a countywide marijuana tax on the November ballot. The proposal surfaced on a number of city council agendas this week before Stanislaus County Supervisor Vito Chiesa and Chief Executive Officer Stan Risen told...

New state laws expected to make medical marijuana more legitimate have had the opposite effect across California and in San Diego, where the legislation has prompted most cities to reaffirm previous bans or make their restrictions even more rigorous. Exceptions include the city of San Diego...

Monday's Public Safety Subcommittee meeting hosted those urging Martinez officials not to follow in the footsteps of other Contra Costa County cities by banning medical marijuana cultivation in the city. Discussion came following Governor Brown's signing in October 2015 of the Medical Marijuana...

The California legislature scrambled this week to correct a serious error that had been written into the state's new medical marijuana regulations. The State Assembly passed AB 21, a bill that fixes what may have been a fatal problem with the language of last year's Medical Marijuana...

You can thank the state legislature for this. In their zeal to pass comprehensive medical cannabis regulations, they somehow overlooked a provision stating that if cities and counties didn't have their own laws in place by March 1, the state would assume control. So now we have a flurry of bans...

California's new medical marijuana laws were supposed to provide more structure and clarity for the state's loosely regulated, billion-dollar industry, but in the past few weeks, dozens of municipalities have ignored that intention by moving quickly to ban delivery and other activities codified...

Bay Area cities are scrambling to pass emergency laws around the cultivation and distribution of medical marijuana in anticipation of statewide changes aimed at regulating California's cannabis industry for the first time. Earlier this fall, Gov. Jerry Brown signed three bills into law...

There is backlash against the initiative to grow/produce, process, wholesale/distribute and retail sales (G-P-W-R) of recreational marijuana in the state of Oregon. I just got the updated OLCC email about the new list of counties and cities that are either banning recreational marijuana or...