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The committee in charge of creating the framework for legalizing recreational marijuana in the state will enter the upcoming legislative session with renewed vigor, hoping to forge a document that passes gubernatorial muster and reflects the will of the people. The House last month upheld...

Advocates for the cultivation, distribution and sale of medical marijuana won an important victory Wednesday when the Oceanside City Council agreed to forward the recommendations of an ad hoc committee to city staffers for more work. The committee, after a six-month series of meetings with...

Doctors should be able to prescribe a pair of cannabis compounds and agencies around the state should better share statistics to track the heroin epidemic, according to recommendations made Tuesday by Virginia’s Joint Commission on Health Care. Staff for the committee, which is made up of...

The state Gaming Policy Committee is going to pot this week as top gaming policymakers, including Gov. Brian Sandoval, will discuss whether there's a possible point of entry for recreational marijuana among Nevada's tourism assets. It's going to be a tough sell, given Nevada regulators'...

The Government has agreed to allow the progression of legislation to provide for medical cannabis to the next legislative stage. The move is despite the fact that the Oireachtas Committee on Health recommended withdrawing Gino Kenny's bill because of "fundamental flaws" in the legislation...

Tennessee Democrats have voted to support resolutions calling for the legalization of medical marijuana, wider health care coverage and a $15 minimum wage. The state executive committee passed the resolutions aimed at expressing the positions of the state Democratic Party. State lawmakers...

"Hemp is an agricultural commodity and should be treated as such in Wisconsin law," Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D-Alma, said when commenting on the recent passage of Senate Bill 119 by the Committee on Agriculture, Small Business and Tourism. Vinehout, as a member of the committee, tried to amend...

City officials are rethinking a proposed moratorium on recreational marijuana shops and retailers. Councilors Peter Juaire and Kathleen Robey suggested the temporary ban this spring after speaking with a number of residents concerned about recreational marijuana shops being located near their...

The House of Commons Health Committee has completed its study of Bill C-45, the government's bill to legalize marijuana, and has made some tweaks to the government's proposal, including cutting out the height restriction on homegrown marijuana plants. The original version of the legislation...

Dozens of towns around the state have spent the past year scrambling to ban recreational marijuana operations within their borders since voters approved legalization last November. But a last-minute change to a proposed legislative rewrite of the Marijuana Legalization Act would make those...

A key panel of lawmakers has approved the language of Maine's new recreational marijuana law. The state's Marijuana Legalization Implementation Committee voted to approve the proposed regulations of Maine's recreational cannabis market. Sales tax was discussed Thursday- lawmakers laid out how...

A legislative committee plans to consider a bill to double the recreational marijuana sales tax to 20 percent and ban marijuana social clubs until 2019. The Legislature's Joint Select Committee on Marijuana Legalization Implementation is set to vote Thursday on whether to recommend the...

A day after a dramatic five-hour public hearing, the legislative committee that is shaping the new marijuana market's regulations began whittling away at its draft bill Wednesday in Augusta. The committee must complete its work by Thursday evening to get the bill ready for a late-October special...

There was no shortage of comments as scores of Mainers filled a hearing room and two overflow rooms at the State House to express their concerns with proposed legislation to regulate the recreational sale of marijuana in Maine. And those testifying were not shy about spelling out what they don't...

The actor, Morgan Freeman was featured in a video accusing the Kremlin of an "attack" on the U.S. Russian state media have lashed back at Morgan Freeman over his appearance in the Committee to Investigate Russia's video, in which the veteran Hollywood actor says that the U.S. "came under...

A powerful Senate panel is urging federal agencies to make a number of surprising marijuana moves, including launching an effort to test products sold at dispensaries in states where cannabis has been legalized. Concerned about a lack of data on the potency and purity of cannabis available to...

A powerful Senate panel is urging federal agencies to make a number of surprising marijuana moves, including launching an effort to test products sold at dispensaries in states where cannabis has been legalized. Concerned about a lack of data on the potency and purity of cannabis available to...

The Liberal government's plan to have marijuana legalized by July 2018 won't wipe out the black market for some time, and could come with other unintended consequences, the committee of MPs studying the legislation heard Monday. "It will take time. We will learn what this marketplace needs...

Law enforcement officials and drug-policy experts have differing takes on whether Illinois should legalize general use of marijuana. A joint Senate-House committee took testimony Wednesday on legalization. The sponsors Sen. Heather Steans and Rep. Kelly Cassidy. The Chicago Democrats say...

State Rep. Jeremy Faison, R-Cosby, and Sen. Steve Dickerson, R-Nashville, have been appointed Co-Chairmen of the Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Medical Cannabis in the Tennessee General Assembly. Eight Republican members of the legislature have been selected from both the House and Senate to...