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Lansing, Mich. – Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has signed legislation that lets landlords prohibit medical marijuana patients from growing or smoking the drug on leased residential property. The law enacted Tuesday adds another exception to a 2008 voter-approved law that legalized the use of...

The process for licensing retail marijuana shops would be delayed by six months under legislation that surfaced first on Dec. 28 in the Senate before clearing both branches, the result of which could push the legal sale of marijuana, authorized by a successful ballot campaign this year, well...

Georgia's limited medical marijuana law should be expanded to allow growers to harvest and distribute it in-state, a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution polls has found, although there is not support to allow the drug's recreational use. The poll shows 71 percent of the state's voters continue...

Maryland's would-be medical marijuana growers face a conundrum known as the "immaculate conception" problem: How do you grow legal marijuana plants when it's a felony to obtain the seeds? The first step in growing state-sanctioned legal marijuana is to break the law, a paradox that has...

The Mesquite City Council only has two options regarding the right to grow marijuana for recreational use in the immediate vicinity when it addresses the issue at its Jan. 10 meeting. They can either choose to have one grow facility in the region that is highly regulated, highly inspected and...

Personal marijuana possession and use may be legal in Massachusetts, but remain off limits at Northern Essex Community College. Last month, college trustees unanimously approved a policy prohibiting marijuana and accessories on college property or at college-sponsored events and activities...

Atlanta - The Macon lawmaker who sponsored Georgia's medical cannabis registry law now wants a statewide vote on growing cannabis plants in the state. State Rep. Allen Peake said he is going to ask fellow lawmakers for a 2018 referendum that would allow growing cannabis for medicinal...

Augusta, Maine - The members of the 128th Maine Legislature began work on Wednesday and already are facing a challenge. Lawmakers have said for the past month that one of their biggest issues will be implementing the marijuana legalization law passed by voters in the referendum. That law will...

Like most seasoned real estate experts, Charlie Kimberly has seen his share of off-putting elements included in a home sale. But a recent listing in Northeast Portland forced him to wonder if what he was selling was legal: A large marijuana plant was growing in the backyard. Turns out, it's...

The Massachusetts Legislature provided a fresh example of the abuse of lame-duck sessions Dec. 28, when both House and Senate hastily passed a bill delaying for six months provisions of the ballot question legalizing recreational marijuana. Lame-duck legislative sessions have a bad reputation...

Missouri is the latest state to change its laws on marijuana. A new law, effective Jan. 1, decriminalizes possession of fewer than 10 grams of marijuana. However, as CBS-affiliate KOLR reports, some people could still be in trouble with the law if caught with marijuana. "That's why I...

Recreational marijuana use will be legal in Maine this month after a referendum passed by voters in November cleared its last hurdle, a signature from Gov. Paul LePage (R). The office of Maine's secretary of state said on Twitter Tuesday that they had received a signed proclamation for ballot...

Becoming a patient in Virginia Summary In 2015 HB 1445 was signed into law. This law creates an affirmative legal defense for patients with intractable epilepsy using CBD or THC-A cannabis extracts which contain at least 15% CBD or THC-A and less than 5% THC by weight with a doctors written...

Becoming a patient in Oklahoma Summary In April of 2015 Gov. Fallin signed HB 2154, Katie and Cayman's Law. The law creates an exemption for the possession and use of CBD-rich cannabis oil from the criminal definition of marijuana in limited circumstances. Patients are eligible for legal...

Becoming a Patient in Louisiana Summary In 2016, the state passed and signed a pair of bills, SB 271 and SB 180. The pair of bills fixes the "prescription" language issue, establishes legal protection for patients, and expands the qualifying conditions. What's Legal Patients will be...

Becoming a Patient in Georgia Summary In April of 2015 Georgia House Bill 1, "Haleigh's Hope Act," became law. The law creates an exemption for the possession and use of some types of marijuana. Patients with severe forms of seizure disorders and seven other medical conditions are eligible...

TAKE A CHILL PILL, pot lovers. It's reasonable for the state to push back on a timetable dictated by the marijuana industry and its anything-but-mellow effort to begin making millions off of Massachusetts weed. As of Dec. 15, marijuana was legal to possess in Massachusetts but illegal to...

One of the chief advocates for marijuana legalization in Massachusetts says a six-month delay to the start of retail sales approved by the state Legislature on Dec. 28 was inevitable and will not radically change the law. Rep. David Rogers of the 24th Middlesex District said State Treasurer...

It's been two weeks of ups and downs for those celebrating Massachusetts' new legal marijuana law. While many were taking their first-ever fully legal puffs inside their living rooms over the holidays, lawmakers gathered almost completely without public scrutiny to slow things down–keeping in...

A pro-pot group that helped push the state's marijuana legalization law says it is now weighing a lawsuit to fight a bill that lawmakers passed, and Gov. Charlie Baker signed yesterday, delaying key parts of it, including when retail pot shops can open in the Bay State. Bill Downing, a board...