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The Chehalis City Council passed an amended ordinance on Monday night limiting the number of marijuana production, processing and growing facilities in the city to one, while allowing vested applications to continue. Although the new ordinance limits the facilities to one operation within...

Seattle - King County has lifted its temporary ban on legal marijuana businesses in unincorporated areas. The Seattle Times reports that the Metropolitan King County Council voted 5-3 Monday to allow licensed pot operations, with some limitations to address the concerns of rural residents...

Beavercreek - Tonight, the city council will vote on legislation that would place a six month ban on medical marijuana in Beavercreek. If city council approves the resolution, permits for cultivators, processors and medical marijuana dispensaries will not be issued or processed for six months...

Beavercreek - Tonight, the city council will vote on legislation that would place a six month ban on medical marijuana in Beavercreek. If city council approves the resolution, permits for cultivators, processors and medical marijuana dispensaries will not be issued or processed for six months...

The Marysville City Council unanimously passed a slate of marijuana-related resolutions in preparation for the opening of the application period for two medical marijuana dispensary licenses. The council approved changes to its fee schedule, adopted selection criteria for dispensary licenses...

Marijuana shops likely will be allowed to stay open later if they choose after getting the initial OK from the Durango City Council. Councilors have considered extending the closing time from 8 p.m. to midnight. In the end, they compromised on 10 p.m. as the latest time a marijuana shop could...

At the end council's study session Tuesday, City and County Attorney Bill Tuthill promised to draft an ordinance that would extend the ban on marijuana grow operations and on medical and retail facilities for four years. However, the measure would allow for a marijuana testing facility within...

Fresno, California - Medical marijuana cleared another hurdle Monday night in Merced. A city council ordinance passed 4 to 3. It allows people with medicinal marijuana cards to grow up to six plants. It also allows four dispensaries in professional or commercial office zones. They must...

Fresno, California - Medical marijuana cleared another hurdle Monday night in Merced. A city council ordinance passed 4 to 3. It allows people with medicinal marijuana cards to grow up to six plants. It also allows four dispensaries in professional or commercial office zones. They must...

The Corvallis City Council will discuss placing a recreational marijuana tax on the November ballot when it meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the downtown fire station, 400 N.W. Harrison Blvd. Cities have the power to levy a tax of up to 3 percent on recreational marijuana. No rate is mentioned in...

Cortez City Council members on Tuesday unanimously approved on first reading an ordinance extending the permitted hours of operation for marijuana stores. The permitted hours will be from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., and the ordinance applies to both medical and retail marijuana operations. The council...

Sidney's Dispensary by the Sea will not lose its business license outright and the municipality will investigate what other communities are doing about the proliferation of medical marijuana store fronts. Chris Porter, a director with the society that runs the Dispensary, says the decision by...

Sidney's Dispensary by the Sea will not lose its business license outright and the municipality will investigate what other communities are doing about the proliferation of medical marijuana store fronts. Chris Porter, a director with the society that runs the Dispensary, says the decision by...

Washington state's voters approved Initiative 502 in 2012 with the understanding - for those who read the fine print - that no marijuana operation could be set up within 1,000 feet of designated gathering places that cater to minors. A change in state law later allowed local governments to...

Upland - Elected officials have backtracked from their effort for an all-out marijuana ban in the city - for now. Late Monday night, the council voted 4-1 to rescind an action it took just two weeks ago which would have placed a ballot measure in the November election calling for a total ban...

Upland - Elected officials have backtracked from their effort for an all-out marijuana ban in the city - for now. Late Monday night, the council voted 4-1 to rescind an action it took just two weeks ago which would have placed a ballot measure in the November election calling for a total ban...

Before visiting an indoor grow operation and learning the ins and outs of legal cannabis production, like how joints are rolled, members of Spokane Valley City Council first had to meet in council chambers last Thursday. This was, after all, official business. Tomorrow, the council may adopt...

Leominster - DO Health Massachusetts, which was recently cut from the selection process to open a medical-marijuana facility in the city, requested an investigation during Monday's City Council meeting into violations by both the Ways and Means and Legal Affairs subcommittees. The nonprofit...

Kamloops, B.C. - A company looking to produce medical marijuana in Kamloops, B.C., is seeking the city's support. Dr. Richard Brownlee, president of KamCan Products Inc., has written to council asking for a letter showing that his business has the city's backing. Brownlee's letter says the...

Kamloops, B.C. - A company looking to produce medical marijuana in Kamloops, B.C., is seeking the city's support. Dr. Richard Brownlee, president of KamCan Products Inc., has written to council asking for a letter showing that his business has the city's backing. Brownlee's letter says the...