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South Africa's cannabis community wants to know why they are being arrested for lighting up a joint when a "legal cannabis plantation" is quietly growing in a greenhouse next to Durban's King Shaka International Airport. In March this year the Western Cape High Court ruled that laws...

It took lawmakers just one day of a scheduled two-day veto session to pass a new state budget and end weeks of impasse with Republican Gov. Phil Scott, but the swift action Wednesday left a marijuana legalization bill on the shelf until next year. Scott and Democratic legislative leaders...

To hear some legal marijuana advocates tell it, you'd think the crime of the century was occurring at the State House, as the House of Representatives tries to rewrite the pot law approved in a statewide referendum vote last November. The argument goes like this — how dare the House tamper...

The Massachusetts House passed a sweeping rewrite of the voter-approved marijuana legalization law Wednesday night, setting up a showdown with the Senate, which is expected to greenlight a much more modest adjustment of the law Thursday. After the Senate passes its version, the two chambers will...

After several years of ceding marijuana policy-making to a voting public eager to adopt a more permissive approach to the once completely illegal drug, House lawmakers on Wednesday took the reins of the sticky issue, passing a bill to overhaul how the state will regulate the retail market of the...

The House and Senate have staked out their positions on changes to the voter-approved marijuana legalization law and both branches appear primed to finally debate the issue this week and hand the divergent bills off to a conference committee. Rep. Mark Cusack, the House co-chair of the...

The list of celebrities who have confessed to smoking pot at the White House just got longer. Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson and Bob Beckel have all previously confessed to rolling a joint at the President's Palace. Now fiery tennis elder statesman John McEnroe has revealed that bad boy singer Kid...

A new version of a recreational marijuana bill is set to come out of committee in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Monday, and some marijuana legalization supporters aren't happy with it. Massachusetts House and Senate members have until the end of the month to hammer out a bill...

The marijuana tax rate in Massachusetts would remain capped at 12 percent under a draft bill released Friday by the state Senate. That's the same rate as in the ballot question that was approved by voters in November. It's in sharp contrast to the 28 percent tax rate in a House bill --...

With just days to go before the Legislature reconvenes for a special session, lawmakers and the administration are zeroing in on a compromise marijuana legalization bill. Gov. Phil Scott vetoed S.22, which passed both legislative chambers in May. With his veto last month, the governor offered...

Eyeing a June 30 deadline to get a bill to Gov. Charlie Baker's desk, the Massachusetts Senate on Friday released a proposal that attempts to come closer to the recreational marijuana law voters approved in November. Through a ballot question, voters broadly legalized usage of recreational...

After tepid support and a procedural snafu forced House leadership to pull the rewrite of the marijuana legalization law from consideration this week, the Marijuana Policy Committee is planning to release a redrafted version of the legislation Monday with debate expected in the House on...

After tepid support and a procedural snafu forced House leadership to pull the rewrite of the marijuana legalization law from consideration this week, the Marijuana Policy Committee is planning to release a redrafted version of the legislation Monday with debate expected in the House on...

Massachusetts marijuana advocates were enraged on Wednesday, saying taxes on Bay State marijuana could skyrocket to 56 percent under a State House plan to overhaul the legalization law approved by voters. Hours later, state House Speaker Robert DeLeo said lawmakers will not vote on the bill...

Massachusetts House lawmakers are expected to take up a bill this week that would change the marijuana law endorsed by voters last November. A Massachusetts House source told MassLive.com that House lawmakers are aiming for a Thursday vote. The State House News Service, an independent wire...

Hemp enthusiasts are working on the first house to be insulated with hemp grown in Kentucky. During a workshop on Friday in Lexington, participants made insulation for a house under construction on York Street. Kris Nonn, director of design and construction at North Limestone Community...

Negotiators in the House and Senate have reached agreement on how to put medical marijuana into effect. But one senator says lawmakers are going about it the wrong way. Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, was the first lawmaker to publicly support Amendment 2, which 71 percent of voters...

Florida legislators are spending their second day of a special session wrangling over money for public schools and medical marijuana. House Democrats on Thursday wanted to allow the smoking of medical marijuana, saying that's what voters wanted when they approved an amendment last November...

A House committee has voted to add another five members to a study commission that would be charged with looking into the effects of legalizing marijuana. The additions would bring the total number of people on the commission to 22 and increase representation by the pro-legalization movement...

With less than two days left in the legislative session, the House of Representatives is preparing for a debate on legalizing marijuana. It would be the first time the Connecticut House debates establishing a recreational cannabis law in the state, which already has a medical marijuana...