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The Mashpee Finance Committee voted against recommending a moratorium on retail marijuana sales in town and instead recommended to allow one, and possibly two, stores. The committee voted 5-0 against recommending an article at October Town Meeting to adopt the two-year moratorium, and 4-1 in...

State lawmakers have announced they will research if Tennessee should legalize marijuana. Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally and State House Speaker Beth Harwell wrote a letter announcing their decision to form an ad-hoc committee to look into the issue. The committee will study, evaluate...

The Homer Cannabis Advisory Committee recommended that the city open up the Homer Spit to commercial cannabis Thursday. It also wants the city to prohibit smoking at marijuana establishments if the state approves on-site consumption later this fall. Both recommendations unanimously passed the...

The House of Commons Health Committee will reconvene in Ottawa a week ahead of Parliament resuming to hold full-day hearings on the government's marijuana legalization bill. The committee is holding the marathon session of meetings to get a head start on its study of Bill C-45, the Cannabis...

A House committee has struck down a measure allowing Department of Veterans Affairs doctors to discuss and recommend medical marijuana to veterans in states where the drug is legal, blocking it from debate Wednesday on the House floor. The "Veterans Equal Access" measure has been debated and...

A measure allowing veterans easier access to medical marijuana garnered bipartisan support in Congress last year and nearly became law. A vote Monday could be the end of the line this year in another attempt to pass it. The House Rules Committee will decide Monday whether to allow Rep. Earl...

Campaigner Vera Twomey has called the rejection of the Bill to legalize cannabis for medicinal use by the Oireachtas Health Committee "a betrayal" of her daughter, Ava (9). Ava, who has epilepsy, and her family are in the Netherlands to have her condition treated with medicinal cannabis...

The Oireachtas Health committee has voted to reject People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny's Bill to legalize medical cannabis and said the Bill "should not proceed to committee stage". The report by the committee on the proposals says the Bill has major legal issues and the proposed framework...

Friday was the self-imposed deadline to come to an agreement on the marijuana bill but a final proposal has yet to come out of Conference Committee. Lawmakers are racing against the clock to get a final bill to revise Massachusetts marijuana law to Governor Charlie Baker's desk, but they'll...

LSU took another step closer Thursday to cutting a $3.4 million contract with a private vendor to grow marijuana for medical purposes. A committee of the LSU Board of Supervisors approved allowing President F. King Alexander to open negotiations on the details of a general pact with GB...

After tepid support and a procedural snafu forced House leadership to pull the rewrite of the marijuana legalization law from consideration this week, the Marijuana Policy Committee is planning to release a redrafted version of the legislation Monday with debate expected in the House on...

After tepid support and a procedural snafu forced House leadership to pull the rewrite of the marijuana legalization law from consideration this week, the Marijuana Policy Committee is planning to release a redrafted version of the legislation Monday with debate expected in the House on...

At the close of the 2017 legislative session, marijuana remains illegal to produce, possess, use or sell in Texas. While cities like Dallas have moved to implement cite-and-release policies, which allow police to send people holding marijuana home with a court summons, the state maintains its...

The Marijuana Legalization Implementation Committee continues to work on regulating growers, sellers, and producers, how to protect public safety, and how to tax cannabis. Tuesday, the panel tackled the requirements for retail marijuana production facilities. Lawmakers are considering...

The majority of Pennsylvanians polled by Franklin & Marshall College believe all marijuana use should be legalized. The poll, which The Morning Call reported on yesterday, found 56 percent of voters said yes to legalizing cannabis. Whatever you want to call it, it's all cannabis – and it's...

Arguably one of the hottest tickets in Augusta this session is entry to the legislative committee rolling out Maine's recreational marijuana law. The group has one eye on signals coming from Washington about enforcement of the federal ban on pot, another on the intersection with the state's...

MONTPELIER - The Vermont House Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that would legalize the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana, or a handful of home-grown marijuana plants. The bill would allow adults over 21 years old to have up to one ounce of marijuana or up to five grams of...

Concord, N.H. – A state Senate committee voted Monday to expand the use of medical marijuana to cover a painful condition. The committee voted unanimously to recommend that the use of medical marijuana be allowed for people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a group of disorders that affect the...

Lincoln – As expected, a legislative committee on Friday advanced a proposal to legalize medical marijuana in Nebraska. The Legislature's Judiciary Committee advanced Legislative Bill 622, sponsored and prioritized by State Sen. Anna Wishart of Lincoln, 6-1. The bill is sure to be...

Following a lengthy discussion at the end of Tuesday's regular meeting, the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors voted to appoint District 4 Supervisor Dennis Mills and District 2 Supervisor Jack Garamendi to an ad hoc committee that will advise the board on a pending and possible cannabis...