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Hamilton - Hamilton City Council voted 5-1 last year to effectively ban in the city the sale of medical marijuana through its zoning codes, and Cincinnati attorney Mike Allen said it may have a legal issue since it will soon be legal in Ohio to prescribe medical marijuana in limited forms. The...

Medical marijuana deliveries and some limited cultivation may soon be allowed in Arroyo Grande. The city Planning Commission narrowly approved an amendment to its existing medical marijuana regulations Tuesday night - voting 3-2, with commissioners Terry Fowler-Payne and John Mack dissenting...

Medical marijuana deliveries and some limited cultivation may soon be allowed in Arroyo Grande. The city Planning Commission narrowly approved an amendment to its existing medical marijuana regulations Tuesday night - voting 3-2, with commissioners Terry Fowler-Payne and John Mack dissenting...

The proponent of a proposed ballot measure that would allow as many as five marijuana dispensaries in San Bernardino has submitted about 6,000 signatures seeking to put the measure on the ballot. City Clerk Gigi Hanna informed the City Council on Thursday that her office is now working with the...

Long Beach City Clerk Maria de la Luz Garcia and her staff are counting signatures on petitions turned in last week to put a medical marijuana dispensary initiative on the November ballot. Larry Kelton and others began circulating the petitions in March, after an effort to open some...

Florence - During the public input section of the meeting Monday, the Florence City Council said it would take a look at legalizing retail marijuana grows in the area. Prior to the public speaking, City Manager Mike Patterson said the staff recommended that only a recreational grow be...

Cop, inspectors visit stores in crackdown Detroit's crackdown on marijuana storefront shops could lead to about 150 fewer shops than existed in the city at the height of the industry, Mayor Mike Duggan said. Teams of city inspectors and police officers have begun visiting stores to enforce...

Cop, inspectors visit stores in crackdown Detroit's crackdown on marijuana storefront shops could lead to about 150 fewer shops than existed in the city at the height of the industry, Mayor Mike Duggan said. Teams of city inspectors and police officers have begun visiting stores to enforce...

Since the legalization of recreational marijuana in Oregon last year, there’s been an explosion or pot-related events, from big celebrations like Weed the People and the Cultivation Classic to “yoganja” classes and house concerts. But now all these events are up in the air due to a confluence of...

Nogales, AZ Tucson News Now - The city of Nogales is looking into adopting a new set of regulations regarding marijuana dispensaries. If they are approved, they will determine where and when marijuana selling businesses can operate. Nogales city manager Carlos Rivera said the council will vote...

Nogales, AZ Tucson News Now - The city of Nogales is looking into adopting a new set of regulations regarding marijuana dispensaries. If they are approved, they will determine where and when marijuana selling businesses can operate. Nogales city manager Carlos Rivera said the council will vote...

Now here's an idea we hope catches fire. Aurora, Colorado's third largest city, recently announced how it will use $1.5 million generated from a tax on recreational pot to supporting homeless people, the Aurora Sentinel reported. The city first made the announcement in September, and has now...

Whitewright, Texas - About 50 miles northwest of Dallas, in the small town of Whitewright, a newly-elected, pot-friendly mayor is already shaking things up. Jeremiah Looney - yep, he's now known as Mayor Looney - says things weren't quite right in Whitewright. "The city and the citizens were...

Activists and advocates for marijuana reform marched in Center City to celebrate recent laws passed in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. The march, organized by PhillyNORML, began Sunday afternoon at the corner of 8th and Market Streets and proceeded to City Hall. PhillyNORML, the local...

The owner of a bar-turned-medicinal pot grow op in east Hamilton has told tenants to "solve" a bylaw standoff with the city or get out. The city only learned the former Boomers bar and strip club on Kenilworth Avenue North had quietly morphed into a medical marijuana facility after residents...

The Oakland City Council voted unanimously early this morning to amend city ordinances so the city can regulate how medical marijuana is grown, manufactured, transported and distributed in the city. City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan said Oakland has been a national leader in the medical...

Regulation versus de-regulation. The discussion over medical marijuana dispensaries continue in Lansing, all while the first ever CannQuest Conference and Expo draws in thousands to the Capital city. And this all has happened days before the Lansing City Council is expected to consider a...

Coinciding with Philly Tech week, hundreds of medicinal cannabis entrepreneurs from around the country gathered in Old City for the first time, to brainstorm what's next. Companies and cash often wait, sometimes for years, on the sidelines of states where medicinal cannabis could soon become...

The Queens of Cannabis owners wanted their bright and airy Bloor Street W. shop to have a "healing atmosphere" distinct from dozens of other marijuana dispensaries springing up, almost daily, across Toronto. "We wanted it to be opening, friendly, welcoming. We wanted to take the stigma away...

The public will have a chance to weigh in May 10 on whether Portage should have a six-month medical marijuana moratorium and if two dispensaries can operate in the city. If approved at the May 10 public hearing with the Portage City Council, the moratorium will include a review of its 2011...