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The state Department of Health is boosting New York's medical marijuana program to meet growing demand. Effective immediately, nurse practitioners can register online and certify patients the same day. Officials say that will help streamline and simplify the registration process and make it...

The dozen winners of medical marijuana grower/processor permits and the hundreds of hopeful dispensary licensees can't yet exhale. The state Department of Health on Tuesday announced the first 12 recipients of grower and processor permits. Regionally, two Berks County businesses won licenses...

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department have enough problems and challenges on their hands without trying to undo sensible federal policy regarding marijuana laws approved in 29 states. Furthermore, asking Congress to repeal the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, passed in...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions does not like marijuana. He has called regular marijuana use "only slightly less awful" than heroin dependence. He once made a joking comment about not minding the KKK until he found out they smoked marijuana. And as a senator, he was one of the most avowed...

The Arkansas Department of Health will start accepting applications for medical marijuana cards on June 30, officials say. The first step is for patients with qualifying medical conditions to get an Arkansas Department of Health medical marijuana physician written certification. Those forms...

There may be a retail apocalypse going on, but you wouldn't know it from Washington state's retail sales in 2016. Taxable sales from retailers in this state increased 6 percent to $63.2 billion in 2016, according to the state Department of Revenue. And the type of store that grew sales the...

The shelves were empty and cabinets bare as Tai Cheng led the way through the soon-to-open medical marijuana dispensary Tuesday. Cheng, an attorney turned cannabis entrepreneur, is the chief operating officer of Aloha Green, one of three companies that won licenses to grow and sell medical...

Maui Grown Therapies is aiming to open as early as July, selling lotions, tinctures, oils, capsules and concentrates at its first dispensary in the Maui Lani Village Center, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. However, the state Department of Health still needs to approve a third-party laboratory...

The state Department of Health is looking to hire staff and write rules on medical marijuana following passage of the state's new law two weeks ago. The undertaking represents uncharted territory for the department and the medical marijuana division's director, Kenan Bullinger, a department...

HARRISBURG – This year Kentucky farmers will grow and potentially sell more than 12,000 acres of industrial hemp, according to that state's Department of Agriculture. Hemp farmers get as much as $21,000 per acre, meaning the Kentucky program could generate crops worth upwards of $252 million...

Cheyenne — A bill legalizing hemp farming in Wyoming is still alive after being passed out of a Senate committee Friday. House Bill 230 would allow the Wyoming Department of Agriculture to apply for a federal permit to begin a hemp production program in Wyoming. Once that permission is...

San Francisco would have its own independent department of marijuana under legislation headed to the Board of Supervisors. "The goal is to create a single office to manage the onslaught that we are facing come Jan. 1, when recreational pot becomes legal," said Supervisor Jeff Sheehy...

The implementation of fully legalized marijuana in Nevada should be tough. Nevada's nascent medical marijuana program is run by the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. However, Nevada's new recreational marijuana program will be run by a different agency, the Nevada Department of...

The Florida Department of Health is touring the state this week to gauge the reception of its proposed guidelines for the roll-out of an expanded medical marijuana program following the November passage of Amendment 2. Public workshops begin Monday in Jacksonville, continue in Fort Lauderdale...

Wyoming farmers could get to grow hemp under a bill approved by the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Hemp is a type of cannabis used for a variety of commercial uses. It does not contain the same psychoactive properties as other cannabis strains. Hemp is still strongly regulated by...

State health officials have started the process that will ultimately allow Floridians with debilitating conditions to buy and use medical marijuana. Tuesday morning, the Florida Department of Health published its initial proposed rules for a statewide medical marijuana program and announced...

Bismarck–Legislative leadership has introduced a bill that would buy time for lawmakers to pass a comprehensive law governing the process for allowing the prescription, dispensing and use of medical marijuana in the state. Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner, R-Dickinson, said Senate Bill...

Carson City - The Department of Taxation is closer to receiving nearly $890,000 for startup costs needed to begin regulating and taxing the new recreational marijuana industry in Nevada. The three-person Nevada Board of Examiners approved $887,491 from the Interim Finance Contingency Account...

Carson City – The Nevada Department of Taxation is asking for a loan of nearly $900,000 from a legislative account to fund startup costs for the implementation of the recreational marijuana law passed by voters in November. The request for $887,491 from the Legislature's Interim Finance...

A California company wants to build a cannabis growing and processing operation in Bartonsville. Consultants representing CannaMed of Thousand Oaks, California has asked the Pocono Township Board of Supervisors to clarify its zoning definitions to allow it to grow medical marijuana. The...