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The owners of a now-closed "luxury smoke lounge" on Trinidad's dispensary-clogged Main Street have filed suit against the city's mayor, police, city council and district attorney, claiming that shifting local policies about pot consumption and weed-related signage doomed their business. But...

New details are coming to light regarding a closed door meeting between several federal agencies, the Colorado Springs mayor and the chief of police. The meeting focused on marijuana regulation in Colorado. But while we know what they talked about at that meeting, it's still unclear what the...

Last year, two ballot initiatives seeking to undo the retail cannabis industry in both the city and county of Pueblo failed. It was the third time voters there indicated that they're OK with pot shops, rejecting a doomsday campaign adamant that legalization is to blame for crime, including gang...

York City is now the fifth municipality in Pennsylvania where simple possession of marijuana is treated as a criminal offense, and not a crime. York City Mayor Kim Bracey signed Article 718 "Marijuana Possession" into law Tuesday morning, a week after the York City Council backed the...

One day after City Council set a public hearing for a medical marijuana ordinance, a petition drive aimed to put a different ordinance on the fall ballot created political pressure at City Hall. During Tuesday's Election Commission meeting, City Clerk Chris Swope said he needs more time to...

White City, Ore.-Industrial hemp is now growing in White City. The people behind it are taking steps to make sure the site doesn't attract crime. Hemp farms like the one in White City are popular throughout Southern Oregon. Unlike marijuana, hemp has a low THC level; meaning if you were to...

For the first time in six years, City Hall will hold a public hearing to discuss a proposed medical marijuana ordinance. With a 5-3 vote, City Council passed a motion Monday night to hold an Aug. 14 public hearing during its 7 p.m. general meeting on the 10th floor of City Hall, At-Large...

West Volusia will likely get its first medical marijuana dispensary before the end of the year. Surterra Wellness, which has stores in Tallahassee and Tampa, is planning to open in Deltona Plaza, 1200 Deltona Blvd., in a suite right next to the Good Eats Diner. It will become Volusia County's...

Grow, baby, grow. The Berkeley City Council has finally set criteria for the medical cannabis grow houses voters approved in 2010. The city expects to collect $650,000 to $1.3 million each year in tax revenue related to cultivation in West Berkeley, staff has estimated. Officials voted July 11...

Calgary city staff are recommending that Alberta set up a private retail system for recreational-cannabis sales, similar to its liquor stores, once the drug becomes legal next summer. Council is set to debate this and other recommendations on cannabis legalization Monday as municipalities...

Riverside has long prohibited medical marijuana dispensaries. Now officials may add recreational pot businesses to the ban – at least temporarily. Since November, when California voters legalized adult use of marijuana, the Riverside City Council has not decided whether to allow, tax and...

The fate of recreational marijuana in Huntington Beach will be a focus for the Planning Commission on Tuesday as it considers a zoning amendment that would prohibit the sale or distribution of non-medical marijuana by businesses in the city. It also would regulate the cultivation of non-medical...

Voters here soon may be asked to show their fickle side. An embryonic but well-funded business venture led by high-profile Eugene attorney Mike Arnold wants Creswell residents to overturn the ban on recreational marijuana retailers that voters approved just eight months ago. The backers of...

Vancouver Assistant Police Chief Mike Lester once used to enforce the laws against marijuana, but now his paycheck is partially funded by it. "It's a little ironic at times," Lester said. "That's just the way it is." All the money Vancouver receives from marijuana tax goes to police. That...

Los Angeles voters want to legalize marijuana, and they don’t seem particularly concerned that it remains illegal under federal law. In November nearly two out of three voters in the city of L.A. supported Proposition 64, a statewide initiative to let adults grow, buy and use recreational...

San Diego’s plan to allow local cultivation, manufacturing and testing of marijuana took a key step forward with the recent unveiling of proposed regulations for those activities. Leaders of the local marijuana industry are praising San Diego for being among a small group of California cities...

Wichita City Hall security officers shut down activists who were trying to solicit signatures Thursday for a petition to reduce marijuana penalties. Two petitioners, Janice Bradley and Russ Pataky, attempted to collect signatures in the lobby outside the City Council chamber as people arrived...

After the York City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday to decriminalize simple possession of marijuana, it appears support for the measure is only continuing to grow. Over the course of two public council meetings about the ordinance, more than a dozen people from York City, surrounding...

West Wendover is officially ready for a medical marijuana dispensary – now all the city has to do is wait for interested businesses to apply. The City Council voted 4-to-1 on Tuesday in favor of an ordinance allowing a marijuana dispensary to open within its borders, the city's clerk...

San Francisco plans to hire the director of the new Office of Cannabis at cost of more than $200,000 next month after the Board of Supervisors approved its creation Tuesday. The Office of Cannabis, which will come under City Administrator Naomi Kelly, will decide who receives operating...