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Cumberland - Although the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission decided this spring to separate the issuance of growing and processing licenses, seven companies were issued both. Allegany County was poised to receive an operation in the form of the well-financed Peak Harvest Health LLC. Peak...

It looks like an initiative is going to be on the Nov. 8 ballot, Proposition 64, which will make cannabis legal in California, under state law. Polls show it is likely to pass. Demand is likely to decrease, if it's totally legal, as is believed to have happened with alcohol at the end of...

Douglas County officials were among those who testified at the Aug. 17 meeting of the 2016 Interim Study Committee on Cost-benefit Analysis of Legalized Marijuana in Colorado. Committee members are state Reps. Dan Pabon, Jonathan Singer and Yeulin Willett and state Sens. Randy Baumgardner...

The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on an urgency ordinance that would put a halt to new marijuana cultivation in the county. Though the board directed county staff to draft the ordinance, there is a strong possibility the regulation will not pass. Four votes are...

The Escambia County Board of County Commissioners will not move forward with a year-long moratorium that would have stopped medical marijuana dispensaries from opening in the unincorporated parts of the county. Setting the moratorium to the side, commissioners voted 5-0 Thursday night to...

Helena - Sponsors of an anti-marijuana initiative that failed to qualify for November's ballot are claiming they submitted enough signatures to put the measure before the voters, but that thousands of names were lost or wrongly rejected by county officials. The sponsors, a group called Safe...

Josephine County voters will likely decide a proposed ordinance that would impose a 3% tax on retail marijuana and marijuana products. The Board of Commissioners this morning unanimously approved a resolution to refer the ordinance to local voters in the November General Election. The tax...

A new interim zoning ordinance will put the kibosh on new medical marijuana businesses and restrict those already operating in Tulare County. Supervisors approved the ordinance, following a recommendation from county administrators and a lengthy presentation on Tuesday. The ordinance is...

A new interim zoning ordinance will put the kibosh on new medical marijuana businesses and restrict those already operating in Tulare County. Supervisors approved the ordinance, following a recommendation from county administrators and a lengthy presentation on Tuesday. The ordinance is...

Worcester County, Md. - There are two finalists for licenses from the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission in Worcester County. One processor and one grower made the final 15, respectively. Economic leaders in Worcester County believe the two cannabis business could provide a big economic...

Worcester County, Md. - There are two finalists for licenses from the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission in Worcester County. One processor and one grower made the final 15, respectively. Economic leaders in Worcester County believe the two cannabis business could provide a big economic...

Baltimore - Today marks the day when Cecil County will find out whether its future will be green, benefitting economically from the development of potential medical marijuana growing and processing facilities. The Natalie M. LaPrade Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission, under the Maryland...

Baltimore - Today marks the day when Cecil County will find out whether its future will be green, benefitting economically from the development of potential medical marijuana growing and processing facilities. The Natalie M. LaPrade Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission, under the Maryland...

Frederick County's Planning Commission voted this week to support the concept behind a bill that would let farmers grow medical cannabis in the county's countryside - under certain conditions. The bill to allow a pilot program for medical cannabis growers who applied for a state license...

Frederick County's Planning Commission voted this week to support the concept behind a bill that would let farmers grow medical cannabis in the county's countryside - under certain conditions. The bill to allow a pilot program for medical cannabis growers who applied for a state license...

Town of Breckenridge detective Caitlin Kontak urged the Routt County Board of Commissioners Aug. 9 to consider adopting the same enforcement regulations applied by the state of Colorado's Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) should they ultimately decide to allow grow operations in the rural...

Since the county Board of Supervisors seems to be in the mood to revisit old decisions, they might want to take another look at their vote in 2011 to ban medical marijuana dispensaries from the unincorporated parts of the county. Grass Valley, Nevada City and Truckee had already passed bans by...

An unlicensed Vashon medical marijuana shop is still operating on the island's main highway more than a month after dispensaries without proper licensing were closed across the state. Island Cure, on the south end of Vashon in the 17900 block of Vashon Highway SW, has been operating past July...

An unlicensed Vashon medical marijuana shop is still operating on the island's main highway more than a month after dispensaries without proper licensing were closed across the state. Island Cure, on the south end of Vashon in the 17900 block of Vashon Highway SW, has been operating past July...

Gainesville, Fla. - Cannabis was a hot topic tonight between commissioners and community. While there were speculations about some proposals, both sides came out with an agreement. Marijuana advocates were happy to hear county ordinances pass on decriminalization and dispensaries...