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The State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy has released a new proposal that could potentially lead to 18 medical marijuana dispensaries placed in Northeast Ohio, with five of them being located in Cuyahoga County. The Board of Pharmacy is responsible for determining the dispensary locations, which...

The pro-marijuana community – and criminal-justice reform advocates – whooped and raved when Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg dropped the bombshell announcement that her administration would stop prosecuting misdemeanor marijuana cases. Instead, all suspected pot smokers (and possessors)...

Firefighting efforts were halted for several hours in Modoc County last week after fire crews discovered an illegal marijuana growing operation. On the evening of July 25, firefighters battling the Cove Fire in northwestern Modoc County came upon the grow site, according to a Modoc County...

In 2015, Michigan arrests for marijuana were more common than arrests for shoplifting. Police made 23,893 arrests involving marijuana in 2015, about 9% of all arrests, according to Michigan State Police data. Marijuana is the No. 1 illicit drug of choice in Michigan, experts say. An...

Will Yolo County supervisors lay out the welcome mat for businesses that want to grow medical cannabis on the county's rich agricultural land or will they shut the door altogether? Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting may provide answers when the board is scheduled to receive a staff update...

David Tunno's recent mailer smacks of abuse. It abuses my patience! He calls himself and his coterie of cronies "Save Our County," which is suggestive — it implies the county will sink into ruin without a marijuana ban. He talks about the suppression of the people's voice — YES or NO, yeah or...

Meals on Wheels Yolo County has announced that the Yolo Cannabis Coalition has donated $10,000 for the Weekend Food Project, which will entirely fund the current program for one year. The Weekend Food Project was designed in 2015 to provide extra help and relief to extremely low-income...

John Seifert was having trouble renting out his shuttered flower shop in Baltimore County. Finally, a real estate agent found a potential tenant: a medical marijuana dispensary. Seifert signed a five-year lease with the firm, which wants to sell cannabis tinctures, oils and other products to...

After a public hearing July 18 regarding the Cannabis Businesses Ordinance and agreeing it is nearly at the point where it can be voted on, the San Benito County Board of Supervisors sent it back to its ad hoc committee to fine tune it one more time after hearing comments from the public and...

Just before dark on Saturday, July 22, Walthall County deputies and MHP troopers were conducting a safety checkpoint at the intersection of Hwy 27 and Hwy 98. A van traveling towards the checkpoint began to reverse away in an attempt to avoid the checkpoint. Trooper first class Craig...

Five years after Washington voters legalized recreational marijuana, uncertainty continues in cities and counties across the state over how to regulate pot businesses – or whether to allow them at all. For example, Yakima County voters will determine in November whether a ban on such...

Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal says that he is laying down the law when it comes to illegal marijuana grows in Humboldt County. "Number one: if they are not a permitted grower then they are a priority. Number two is that they are damaging the environment, we don't want any of these...

Tim Blake has been pursued by police, arrested, jailed, ripped off in the fields by thuggish neighbors and hogtied by Hell's Angels. Naturally, he is one of Mendocino County's most upstanding citizens. Blake is a longtime cannabis grower and entrepreneur. His Healing Harvest farm produces...

In California's famed Emerald Triangle marijuana growing region, cannabis farmers by the thousands have stepped out of the shadows to apply for permission to do business in state's newly regulated marketplace. The rush of applicants, totaling nearly 3,000 between Humboldt and Mendocino...

The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office wants to make clear how changes in the law affect enforcement of illegal marijuana cultivation in the county. "I am tired of these people hiding behind medical marijuana. The time is now to come out from the shadows. The state and the county have provided...

The remote California Valley isn't the only region under fire by San Luis Obispo County in its fight against marijuana grows deemed to be non-compliant with a recent county policy. After hitting five Cal Valley pot growers with lawsuits, the county is now suing Eric Powers–co-owner of...

Twenty people representing cannabis business interests, real estate, schools, rural neighborhoods and other concerns were appointed Tuesday to advise the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on its rules governing the region's emerging pot industry. Chosen from more than 100 people who applied...

At the Joyce Daze Wild Blackberry Festival in 2015, area residents were asked in a survey to list the issues they were most concerned about. The No. 1 priority that emerged was to "try to get drugs out of the area," said Joyce resident Connie Beauvais, a Port of Port Angeles commissioner and...

A former Pepsi factory that sat vacant for a decade is being reincarnated as an indoor marijuana grow – one of the largest in the pot-friendly state of Colorado. Doyen Elements, a holding company that leases real estate properties out to legal cannabis companies, bought an old bottling plant...

Locally sourced bat guano and other manure-based fertilizers will power Erich Pearson’s biodynamic pot farm outside the city of Sonoma, which seeks to harness the forces of the earth, the cosmos and the free market. Craft cannabis is becoming a cousin to craft beer in Sonoma County, and the...