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Boston – A voter-approved law allowing adults to possess, grow and use limited amounts of recreational marijuana took effect Thursday in Massachusetts, but it will still be at least another year before the state issues retail licenses to sell the drug. For now, that leaves recreational users...

In a move marijuana and legal experts call unconstitutional, Indian Wells City Council passed an ordinance Thursday requiring residents wanting to grow marijuana in their home under the voter-approved Adult Use of Marijuana Act to register for a $141 per year permit from City Hall. In order...

The message from elected officials at a workshop this week on the state's new recreational marijuana law was to delay recreational establishments from opening within town borders, while getting a read on public opinion. The act, which was passed as a ballot question during the November...

Boston – Legal-marijuana activists were in a celebratory mood Thursday as a new voter-approved law took effect in Massachusetts, allowing people 21 and over to possess, grow and use limited amounts of recreational pot. It will be at least another year before marijuana can be legally sold by...

Montana's dispensaries are coming back to life, Michigan's medical marijuana fees have been funding aggressive anti-marijuana law enforcement, and more. Arkansas On Monday, members of the state's new medical marijuana commission were sworn in. In the first meeting of a commission...

Boston – Having spent nearly three decades crusading for relaxed marijuana laws in Massachusetts, Bill Downing is greeting the state's new recreational marijuana law with a mix of satisfaction and trepidation. The voter-approved measure took effect on Thursday, making it legal for adults to...

Cambridge – It's a new day in Massachusetts, with marijuana legalized for recreational use as of midnight. Pot can't be sold legally in the Bay State until 2018, and only with a license to do so—but many are opting to grow their own at home, and one local dispensary is helping them get...

David Alper, chairman of the Belmont Board of Health, discussed the implications of the recreational marijuana law that passed in November's election at the Dec. 12 selectmen meeting. Belmont voted 53 to 47 percent to approve Ballot Question Four in the November general election. "We have to...

Wednesday, an adult living in Haverhill or anywhere in Massachusetts could have been arrested for having as little as 10 ounces of marijuana or less in their homes, or carrying an ounce of the drug outside. But not today. Legal possession and recreational use of marijuana went into effect...

Voting to certify the Nov. 8 election results, the Governor's Council on Wednesday cleared the way for legalization of adult possession and use of marijuana in Massachusetts on Thursday, as well as home-growing aspects of the ballot question law. Unregulated sale of marijuana will still be...

Voting to certify the Nov. 8 election results, the Governor's Council on Wednesday cleared the way for legalization of adult possession and use of marijuana in Massachusetts on Thursday, as well as home-growing aspects of the ballot question law. Unregulated sale of marijuana will still be...

Despite a brief hiccup, the Governor's Council has certified the results of the November election, officially paving the way for marijuana to become legal just after midnight. The new law–which allows use and possession of marijuana for people over 21, and permits people to grow the plant at...

Marijuana becomes legal in Massachusetts on Thursday for adults 21 and older. But if you want to purchase some pot, you're going to need to do it the old-fashioned way: from a guy who knows a guy. Massachusetts is now entering a legal gray zone, because retail stores selling marijuana won't...

Framingham - Saying they won't stand in the way of Massachusetts voters, selectmen on Tuesday refused to back efforts by a municipal lobbying group to slow the implementation of the state's new recreational marijuana law. Members of the board voted unanimously to withhold their support from a...

Seeking to provide guidance to law enforcement officials, Gov. Charlie Baker's public safety chief, Dan Bennett, sent a memo to Massachusetts police chiefs ahead of marijuana legalization going into effect on Thursday, Dec. 15. Bennett wrote that the new law, passed by voters in November...

Any Massachusetts resident over 21 can legally possess up to an ounce of marijuana outside their home Thursday -- but don't go walking down the street smoking it. Though the ballot question approved by voters Nov. 8 is scheduled to go into effect, the law doesn't allow using pot in public...

Many of you asked a version of this question, from Rick Vance: "I would like to know why, immediately after the election, Mass. officials started doing whatever they could to delay the will of the people." Well, Rick, the short answer is because they can. The act approved by 54 percent of...

While the rest of the country debates how the Electoral College should vote next week, Massachusetts might have made a solid decision on the Nov. 8 ballot Question 4, the Massachusetts Marijuana Legalization Initiative. Looks like you'll be able to smoke 'em if ya got 'em by this weekend. The...

Marijuana is set to become a legal substance in Massachusetts on Thursday, Dec. 15, while remaining illegal on the federal level. Adam Fine, an attorney who helped write the marijuana law voters approved in November, will be taking questions from MassLive and readers. Log onto MassLive's...

Snowflake – Navajo County Superior Court by Judge Donna Grimsley ordered a dismissal of a lawsuit Dec. 7 involving the Town of Snowflake and Copperstate Farms – a proposed medical marijuana growth facility west of Snowflake. In a hearing for Oral Argument on Nov. 30, the parties were allowed...