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Q What kind of marijuana use has Ohio legalized? A On June 8, 2016, Gov. John Kasich signed legislation legalizing the use medical marijuana - in certain forms - for certain medical conditions. There is no Ohio law legalizing marijuana for recreational use. Q When does the medical...

Q What kind of marijuana use has Ohio legalized? A On June 8, 2016, Gov. John Kasich signed legislation legalizing the use medical marijuana - in certain forms - for certain medical conditions. There is no Ohio law legalizing marijuana for recreational use. Q When does the medical...

Residents of the city of Logan will have a familiar choice to make this November, on whether to decriminalize marijuana within the city limits. The group Sensible Logan has again gained the amount of signatures needed to place the initiative on the ballot, according to Don Keeney, who leads...

Residents of the city of Logan will have a familiar choice to make this November, on whether to decriminalize marijuana within the city limits. The group Sensible Logan has again gained the amount of signatures needed to place the initiative on the ballot, according to Don Keeney, who leads...

A growing number of Southern California law enforcement organizations and leaders are voicing objections to a state ballot measure that would legalize recreational marijuana, saying it would make the state less safe. San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos said the initiative to...

Atlanta — Hundreds of physicians have signed up for Georgia's one-year-old medical cannabis program. Good luck finding any of them. The name and location of doctors authorized to sign off on a patient's eligibility to use cannabis oil are kept confidential. Lawmakers gave physicians...

Springfield - Marijuana possession in small amounts in Illinois will be punishable by fines but not jail time after Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation Friday that makes the state the third largest to decriminalize minor pot offenses. The new law, which takes effect immediately, makes having...

California laws prohibit the use of butane as part of the chemical process to create cannabis extracts, used for oils and marijuana products that aren't rolled up in joints or used in bongs. It's considered a safety issue. Butane is flammable, and very nasty accidents may happen if the chemical...

Marijuana used for medicine is different from marijuana used for recreational purposes - or, at least, it should be. Yet, the state Legislature approved a law that went into effect July 1 that essentially merges medical marijuana with the recreational industry. To this point, it's created...

Marijuana used for medicine is different from marijuana used for recreational purposes - or, at least, it should be. Yet, the state Legislature approved a law that went into effect July 1 that essentially merges medical marijuana with the recreational industry. To this point, it's created...

Lansing, Mich. - As the marijuana dispensary debate continues in Lansing for months, we've been talking about an ordinance in Lansing is putting in overtime to pass. And while the ordinance is still a work in progress there's already a state statute in effect dealing with it and officials...

Lansing, Mich. - As the marijuana dispensary debate continues in Lansing for months, we've been talking about an ordinance in Lansing is putting in overtime to pass. And while the ordinance is still a work in progress there's already a state statute in effect dealing with it and officials...

Opponents of a ballot initiative that seeks to ask voters to legalize recreational marijuana for adults filed a lawsuit on July 11 to keep the measure off the November ballot, citing that the would-be law misleads voters in its petition summaries concerning how many of Arizona's laws it would...

Maybe it caught your attention along I-75 south in Byron: a billboard advertising the sale of cannabis, also known as marijuana. John Cater from Macon saw the YourCannabisOMS.com billboard. It's an online marijuana dispensary. "Edible Cannabis is legal in Georgia, that's what the billboard...

Maybe it caught your attention along I-75 south in Byron: a billboard advertising the sale of cannabis, also known as marijuana. John Cater from Macon saw the YourCannabisOMS.com billboard. It's an online marijuana dispensary. "Edible Cannabis is legal in Georgia, that's what the billboard...

There are five key elements — some separate, some similar and all intertwined — that could determine how commercial cannabis is regulated and cultivated in Calaveras County. One factor is now a temporary county law, three more will be on the Nov. 8 ballot and the fifth potential factor could be...

There are five key elements — some separate, some similar and all intertwined — that could determine how commercial cannabis is regulated and cultivated in Calaveras County. One factor is now a temporary county law, three more will be on the Nov. 8 ballot and the fifth potential factor could be...

Lancaster - The Lancaster Law Director's Office is working on legislation to ban medical marijuana dispensaries from opening in the city limits after local law enforcement officials and the city administration. Lancaster City Council's Law Committee met Wednesday to discuss how to be...

Lancaster - The Lancaster Law Director's Office is working on legislation to ban medical marijuana dispensaries from opening in the city limits after local law enforcement officials and the city administration. Lancaster City Council's Law Committee met Wednesday to discuss how to be...

The application of the law regarding cannabis use continued with the harvest of its first legal plantation. Uruguay will start producing marijuana legally, announced in mid-June Juan Andrés Roballo, president of the National Drug Board (JND). "Soon will be ready the first harvest [of...