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After at least two years of debate, multiple drafts and voting delays, Lansing City Council approved a medical marijuana ordinance for commercial establishments Thursday night. The ordinance will cap provisioning centers, also known as dispensaries, at 25. A cap won't be set for other...

Riverside city council will consider selling three acres of real estate to a medical marijuana business at tonight's meeting. The proposal is to sell land at the Center of Flight to Farms of Riverside, LLC. In July, Riverside city council delayed a vote on whether to sell seven acres of...

Despite a long agricultural history, Apopka became the latest Central Florida government to ban medical marijuana shops within their borders. Eustis in Lake County also may soon join the growing roster of communities who are just saying no to dispensaries. Leaders of both cities cited...

San Bernardino's first licensed marijuana dispensary may share an address with its only strip club. More than nine months after residents voted to allow medical cannabis businesses in town, city officials have approved a dispensary permit for the location now occupied by Flesh Showgirls...

Massillon Medical marijuana operations now are permitted to sprout within the city limits. City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday night to approve an ordinance recognizing the industry and giving medical marijuana operators an avenue to open shop. The ordinance permits a medical marijuana...

The furor over whether to allow a casino within city limits died down when council voted in the affirmative, but a controversial new issue has arisen. Should Kern County (and eventually the city of Ridgecrest) ban commercial cannabis businesses or allow, regulate and tax them? Whatever the...

Henderson inched closer to the sale of legalized recreational marijuana Tuesday night after city officials approved ordinances days before a 7-month moratorium expires. The Henderson City Council voted 3-2 to adopt an ordinance to establish retail marijuana regulations and licenses...

As summer draws to an end and the clock ticks toward a new year, cities across California are hustling to outline regulations on marijuana as the state is expected to start issuing commercial licenses in 2018. Across San Mateo County, the coastside is becoming one of the more welcoming...

"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous," Carl Sagan said in 1969. "An impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world." Sure, but what else would you expect...

An update to Pittsburgh's zoning code could establish by October where medical marijuana dispensaries, growers and processors may do business in the city. Legislation introduced by city council last week would direct growers and processors largely toward industrial zones. For dispensaries...

Recreational marijuana was legalized in November with the passage of California Proposition 64, but if Palo Alto's Planning and Transportation Commission has its way, pot shops will not open up in the city anytime soon. The commission voted unanimously Wednesday night to recommend continuing...

Lake Tahoe welcomed its first recreational cannabis dispensary in Incline Village this July, but as South Lake Tahoe City Council moves toward a temporary ban of retail sales and with Douglas County's prohibition already in place, it may remain the closest store for South Shore residents – at...

There is no gentle way to say it: The white community enjoys smoking marijuana, and it has become socially acceptable in that community to do so. Just look at the states where the recreational use of cannabis is now legal. Colorado, Oregon, Alaska, Maine and Washington State are not known...

The Planning and Zoning committee voted against the cultivation and dispensing of medical marijuana being permitted within the city. The vote at Wednesday's meeting was unanimous. City Administrator Bridgette Kabat said the committee's vote has no bearing over the legal use of medical...

Looking around our city, you would hardly know that marijuana will be legally sold here starting in January. Due to delays and inaction by city government, San Diego could be the California city least prepared for legal cannabis retail. This is mainly because there are still around 300...

A New York City administrative board has ruled that taxi drivers cannot be discriminated against for using medical cannabis. The New York City Office of Administrative Trials & Hearings (OATH) recently found that revoking a Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) driver's license over legal medical...

City voters will have to wait until September to find out if they will be able to weigh in on a potential ban on the sale of recreational marijuana after a contentious special City Council meeting Tuesday night. The majority of city voters (58 percent) were in favor of legalizing recreational...

After a tempestuous two-hour hearing in June, the Fresno City Council narrowly voted to take the first step to ban recreational marijuana businesses in the city. More fireworks could be in store Thursday morning, when the city's planning department presents its draft of the proposed law to the...

With Manatee County expecting to finalize a land use amendment to categorize medical marijuana dispensaries as pharmacies in an effort to move forward, Palmetto will let the county have them and will ban the dispensaries from the city. On August 22, Manatee County voted 6-0, with Commissioner...

A Huber Heights councilman has drafted new proposed legislation that would give the medical marijuana industry a second chance to come to the community. The changes proposed by Councilman Richard Shaw would remove any mention of dispensaries, address issues with odors, add a 200-foot barrier...