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From "cannabis cafes" to "craft cooperatives," regulators have been laying out a vision for what a potential multibillion dollar recreational marijuana industry might look like when retail sales begin next year in Massachusetts. The Cannabis Control Commission reached tentative agreement over...

Legalized marijuana has, to this point, been something of a West Coast thing. Voters in Washington, Oregon and Colorado were the first to approve legal recreational cannabis, and California is about to become the country's biggest legal marijuana market when recreational sales begin in 2018...

As it works to build a new industry from the ground up, state marijuana regulators on Tuesday wrestled with how Massachusetts' newly legal marijuana industry could be more accessible to racially and economically diverse communities and how the industry could benefit groups that were...

Sometime soon in Massachusetts, you'll be able to walk into a café, ask for a marijuana product, and consume it right there without heading home first. The state agency responsible for regulating legalized marijuana approved a policy on Monday that will allow for such establishments...

This week is crunch time for the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission. The nascent agency, charged with overseeing recreational pot, has said it expects marijuana will be available for sale to adults older than 21 by July 1. But for that to happen, it must first translate the state law...

New regulations for medical-marijuana dispensaries are up for a County Commission vote during a final public hearing Dec. 19. Commissioners held a first hearing Tuesday on updated medical-marijuana dispensary rules that would follow state law, allowing them wherever pharmacies are permitted...

An Eastern Shore hospital executive has joined the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission as its new executive director. Joy A. Strand takes her new job just as companies have begun to dispense medical marijuana to patients. She replaces Patrick Jameson who resigned last month. The former...

The five licenses to legally grow marijuana in Arkansas will be awarded Feb. 27, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission decided Friday. The five-member commission gave themselves until Feb. 20 to complete their scoring of the 95 applications the state received in September to operate a...

A medical marijuana extraction facility could be a step closer Monday to opening in Costa Mesa. The Planning Commission will review an application for a conditional use permit to open the facility in a 7,315-square-foot tenant space at 3590 Cadillac Ave.in the northwest area of the city...

He may soon be out as governor of New Jersey, but Chris Christie continues to have an impact on one of his favorite topics: the legalization of marijuana. He's not for it. He made that clear once again this month. As chairman of a committee appointed by President Donald Trump to make...

The Plumas County Planning Commission is gearing up to receive the controversial draft Cannabis Ordinance produced by the Cannabis Working Group. County Planning Director Randy Wilson stated at the Nov. 2 planning commission meeting that the cannabis working group is getting close to...

After a four-year wait to provide medical cannabis to patients, the drug could be available to Marylanders as early as this month, according to industry stakeholders. "I think we could see product in November, with increase in December and a steady flow from all operators in the new year,"...

The man who presided over the turbulent launch of Maryland's medical marijuana industry resigned Thursday. Patrick Jameson, a former state trooper who took over as executive director of the Medical Cannabis Commission in April 2016, will stay in his job until the end of the month. Jameson...

Roughly 18,000, that's the number of Rhode Islanders currently enrolled in the state's medical marijuana program. Members of a new recreational marijuana study commission got an update on that program Tuesday, as they consider whether the state should legalize recreational pot. This was the...

A Virginia lawmaker says he's working on a bill to decriminalize marijuana. The Virginian-Pilot reported Monday that Senate majority leader Tommy Norment does not support full legalization of the drug. But the Republican said possessing it would be a civil offense subject to a ticket or a...

Three years after recommending San Francisco allow medical marijuana dispensaries to open closer to schools, the Planning Commission has voted to maintain the 1,000-foot buffer between cannabis and kids. The commission recommended last Thursday that San Francisco keep the 1,000-foot buffer...

Medical marijuana has been on municipal agendas in Michigan a lot this year, and it could be intensifying in the days and weeks ahead. On Monday night alone, three area municipalities will be discussing ordinances that could govern new medical marijuana businesses being allowed by the state...

A commission studying marijuana legalization is tasked with identifying "the good, the bad, and the ugly." That's how Rep. Patrick Abrami sums it up. He's the commission's chairman. Abrami's outline of guidelines at the first meeting of the commission this week points to the workload...

The chief medical marijuana regulator from Rhode Island, the head of a Massachusetts child advocacy organization and the Treasury's point person on pot met with the Cannabis Control Commission on Tuesday afternoon, each for an hour-long interview for the job of executive director. The...

Question: How do you lose when you receive three of five votes from the Planning Commission and four of six votes from the City Council? Answer: You endure the same experience as Chris Hester of Sacramento, the prospective operator of a proposed medical cannabis dispensary on Stagecoach Road...