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The Cañon City Council on Monday approved the formation of a marijuana cultivation regulation committee, consisting of representatives of the council and planning commission, residents, businesses, staff and marijuana industry representatives. City Administrator Tony O'Rourke said the...

The Beaumont City Council will consider naming two members to a joint committee with neighboring Banning to study cannabis when it meets Tuesday, Aug. 2. Many cities have been looking at marijuana laws in the face of changing state laws and a November initiative that could legalize pot in the...

The Committee to Grow Craig hosted an event Thursday night to promote its petition for a vote on retail marijuana in Craig. Shaun Hadley, owner of the Craig Apothecary, welcomed the crowd of about 30 people before introducing the first speaker, Christie Lunsford. Lunsford works in the cannabis...

Buffalo, New York — A University at Buffalo psychologist who studies substance abuse issues has been appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's ad hoc committee that will review the health effects of marijuana use. R. Lorraine Collins, PhD, a professor of...

Orlando - The Democratic Party endorsed a "reasoned pathway to future legalization" of marijuana and called for the drug to be downgraded in the Controlled Substances Act, in a tense and unexpected victory for supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders. Going into the platform committee meeting...

A political committee spearheading a drive to pass a medical-marijuana ballot initiative raised slightly less than $52,000 from June 1 to June 24, according to a newly filed finance report. Nearly half the money, $25,000, came from the law firm Greenspoon Marder, which has offices in Florida...

A political committee spearheading a drive to pass a medical-marijuana ballot initiative raised slightly less than $52,000 from June 1 to June 24, according to a newly filed finance report. Nearly half the money, $25,000, came from the law firm Greenspoon Marder, which has offices in Florida...

Baltimore - State regulators have given preliminary approval to a revised plan for scrutinizing the financial histories of those seeking licenses to grow and dispense medical marijuana. The policy committee of the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission scrapped a proposal last week...

Baltimore - State regulators have given preliminary approval to a revised plan for scrutinizing the financial histories of those seeking licenses to grow and dispense medical marijuana. The policy committee of the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission scrapped a proposal last week...

The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) has announced that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has decided on a new proposed party platform regarding states' rights and marijuana laws. With the DNC holding its convention the week of July 25, 2016, the Platform Drafting Committee (PDC) has been...

The Licensing and Standards Committee is set to debate and review the current state of marijuana dispensaries in Toronto on Monday. The meeting follows a string of raids linked to the proliferation of pot storefronts in neighbourhoods across the city. Toronto police executed four search...

The Marijuana Businesses Access to Banking Act (S.1726 and H.R.2076) has received bipartisan support in both chambers. The U.S. Department of Justice has said it wouldn't spend time prosecuting financial service companies that work with legal marijuana businesses as long as it following...

California legislative committees are considering two different bills by North Coast legislators to tax commercial medical marijuana. - SB 987 by Sen. McGuire (Healdsburg) would impose a 15% excise tax on retail purchases of medical marijuana, above and beyond the current 7.5+% sales tax plus...

Sage Cannabis is one step closer to opening a proposed medical marijuana dispensary in Cambridge following a televised hearing in which city councillors questioned the safety of the proposed site and ultimately voted to move the proposal forward. Following the two-hour hearing, the City...

State Sen. John Schickel of Boone County is the chair of the Licensing & Occupations Committee in the Kentucky Legislature. He decides what bills will be heard in this committee. There are two bills regarding cannabis sitting in the committee, where they will die. SB 263 is a comprehensive...

On Beacon Hill Tuesday, a special committee of the state Senate focusing on marijuana released its report of recommendations, should Massachusetts voters approve legalizing recreational marijuana this fall. While not taking a position for or against legalization, the report strikes a cautionary...

A scathing Senate report to be released Tuesday says that if residents legalize recreational marijuana in Massachusetts this fall, the state should promptly temper their vote by outlawing home cultivation, imposing a significant tax on the drug, and prohibiting some marijuana-infused edible...

The Special Senate Committee on Marijuana, chaired by Senator Jason Lewis, has submitted a report that expressed concern regarding the potential legalization of the drug. According to a release from Lewis' office, the Committee submitted a thorough review of the current marijuana laws in the...

After fighting for — and obtaining — narrow passage through the Utah Senate, a controversial medical marijuana bill will not advance to the House of Representatives. A Health and Human Services committee voted 8-4 not to send SB 73, sponsored by Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Saratoga Springs, to be...

A House committee will hear debate next week on a pair of medical marijuana bills, but one faces a tough battle. Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Saratoga Springs, told FOX 13 that he has been meeting with members of the House Health & Human Services Committee to persuade them to vote for his bill, SB73...