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Marijuana businesses are one step closer to becoming a legal reality in Grover Beach. The Grover Beach Planning Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend approval to the City Council for an overlay to city code that would allow commercial cannabis uses in a 70-acre industrial area...

There are many uses for industrial hemp: Horse bedding, particle board, even the fabric on car-door interiors. The list runs long. So says Patrique Veille, a co-owner of American Hemp LLC in Winston-Salem. In the industrial-hemp business for years, Veille has long relied on imports. But by...

Bessemer - The Bessemer Planning Commission met on Wednesday evening to discuss the Medical Marijuana Licensing Act and Bessemer's acceptance or rejection of support for additional marijuana-based businesses. At the prior meeting of the planning commission on Dec. 7, the commission requested...

The Medical Marijuana Commission began discussing draft rules for licensing dispensaries on Tuesday. It agreed by a 4-1 vote to initially certify 32 medical marijuana dispensaries across Arkansas – significantly more than the minimum of 20 required by the medical marijuana amendment passed by...

Little Rock, AR. - It was another packed house at Tuesday's medical marijuana commission meeting as they continued to hash out how the industry will be run in Arkansas. The commission established a $100,000 licensing fee to have a medical marijuana cultivation facility. It will be a yearly...

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission today finished the bulk of its discussion of draft rules for the licensing of cultivation facilities by establishing high financial hurdles for would-be growers to clear before they can claim one of the five licenses the commission will distribute later...

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission has decided to set license fee (and annual renewal) for cultivation facilities at $100,000, Benji Hardy reports. The decision was billed as a compromise, after commissioner Travis Story pushed for setting it at $185,000 and Carlos Ramon proposed $15,000...

Arkansans hoping to grow medical marijuana will have to pay a $15,000 application fee and a licensing fee yet to be determined, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission decided Tuesday. Unsuccessful applicants will receive half the fee - $7,500 - back. The fee is the maximum allowed under...

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission today continued creating rules for the licensing of cultivation facilities, one of the two types of businesses envisioned by the medical marijuana amendment approved by voters in November. The five commissioners also have authority over licensing...

With a timeline dictated by the constitutional amendment legalizing marijuana for medical use, the Medical Marijuana Commission is meeting at 4 p.m. today in a Christmas-New Year week which finds most official activity in the state at a near standstill. Note correction from earlier time...

Little Rock, Ark. - Those hoping to become one of the state's first owners of a medical marijuana growing center may have more requirements to fulfill. Thursday night's Medical Marijuana Commission meeting focused largely on the application process. The commission cannot make changes to...

Prospective cultivators of medical marijuana will have to compete for state licenses on a merit-based system, rather than a lottery, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission decided Thursday. Meeting for the third time in two weeks, the commission did not determine criteria for how it will...

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission voted Tuesday to allow as many as five cultivation facilities in the state once rules about growing, processing and distribution of the drug are finalized. The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment, passed by voters in last month's general election...

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission held its second meeting this afternoon and began in earnest the process of establishing rules for the licensing of dispensaries and cultivation facilities authorized by Issue 6, the pro-pot amendment approved by voters in November. (Its first meeting, on...

Little Rock, Ark. - The clock is ticking for the new five member Medical Marijuana Commission to get the drug in patients hands. Monday, the group held its first public meeting. Before medical marijuana will be ready for purchase, the commission has a long list of steps to complete; including...

From lobbyists and consultants to advocates on both sides of the medical marijuana debate, there was plenty of interest about the medical marijuana program. Led by a state supreme court justice, members of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission were sworn in before their first ever...

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission met for the first time this afternoon. Appointments to the five-member board were announced by the governor and legislative leaders last week. The medical marijuana amendment just approved by Arkansas voters created the commission and gave it authority...

The medical marijuana commission will hold its first meeting this Monday, December 12, in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Conference Room of the 1515 Building at 1515 West Seventh Street. The commission, created by the medical marijuana amendment to the state constitution passed by voters last...

The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission will announce the companies Friday that won preliminary licenses to dispense medical cannabis. The law legalizing medical marijuana allows up to two dispensaries for each of the state's 47 legislative districts, plus one for each of the 15 marijuana...

A month after saying he was open to studying the decriminalization of marijuana, the top elected Republican in Virginia has formally asked a key legislative commission to look into the issue. State Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment had opposed decriminalization in the past. But during a...