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Medicinal marijuana dispensaries will be banned in Collier County for another six months as local commissioners try to wait for state lawmakers to change the rules surrounding them. County commissioners want control over the number of dispensaries that could open after voters approved a...

The first distributions of state marijuana tax revenues -- totaling nearly $85 million -- are on their way to the State School Fund; the Mental Health, Alcoholism, and Drug Services Account; the Oregon State Police; the Oregon Health Authority, and Oregon's cities and counties. All...

Cuyahoga and Franklin counties would get five medical marijuana stores each, while many rural and some suburban counties would have none under a proposal to distribute Ohio's limited number of available licenses. The Ohio State Board of Pharmacy expects more than 200 applications for up to 60...

Once dispensaries do open for business, it will be as easy for eligible adults to buy marijuana as it is for them to buy alcohol, according to the Sun. However, as long as the plant remains illegal under federal law, consumers must pay with cash as dispensaries do not accept credit cards...

Last year, Golden Leaf Holdings, a leading cannabis company, paid $3.3 million for almost 100 acres of land in Oregon to build a marijuana growing, processing and research site. The future looked bright: Oregon voters had legalized recreational marijuana in 2014. But Measure 91 gave counties...

Opposition was strongest in suburbia to Ohio's first-in-the-nation effort to legalize both medical and recreational marijuana in a single vote, according to an analysis of final election results. About 7 in 10 voters in the counties that ring Columbus and Toledo voted against last fall's...