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More than 100 new patients have received permission to use a form of medical marijuana in Georgia this month, bringing the statewide total of people using the product to more than 1800 less than three years after the state began the program. They still don't have easy access to the drug, which...

A Douglas County attorney claims the Nevada Tax Commission violated open meeting law because marijuana and other words were absent from a recent meeting agenda. Jim Hartman, from Genoa, filed the complaint Wednesday with the Nevada attorney general's office. The complaint references the May 8...

Alicia Castilla was watering the plants in her garden on a quiet Sunday afternoon when five police patrol cars screeched to a halt outside her home. A team of 14 officers "armed to the teeth" stormed through her gate and arrested the mild-mannered, 66-year-old intellectual. They seized...

Washington's Initiative 502 made possession and sales of recreational marijuana legal, but things are still tricky, at least from a legal perspective. "We thought I-502 would change or limit our business, but really it's tripled our business," said Frank Cikutovich, of Spokane's Stiley &...

With Pennsylvania well on its way toward implementing a medical marijuana program, dozens of lawyers in the state are preparing for an explosion of legal work related to cannabis. The blossoming industry is reminiscent of the surge in legal work that grew out of the Marcellus Shale play...

A Rhode Island fabrics company violated the state’s medical marijuana law when it refused to hire a card-carrying patient who couldn’t pass a drug test, a state Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday. Christine Callaghan sued Darlington Fabrics Corp. for compensatory and punitive damages in 2014...

City Council voted 4-3 tonight to ban the cultivation, processing and dispensing of medical marijuana within city limits. The ban codifies a previous six-month moratorium on medical marijuana enterprises, which the city enacted in response to the state's new law allowing limited legal use of the...

Figured I'd get this up to date and maintain it. In Progress Law Text Chapter 311 - Minnesota Session Laws And the 2015 Update Chapter 74 - Minnesota Session Laws The non-lawyer version: Medical cannabis is provided to patients as a liquid, pill, or vaporized delivery method that does not...

Hamilton leaders are considering updating their ban on medical marijuana facilities so city ordinances are better synced with state law. Hamilton City Council in February of 2015 approved legislation that prohibited sales of medical marijuana in the city. More than a year later, in May of 2016...

The marijuana industry is off limits to Alaska law enforcement officers, says the state council that oversees police. The Alaska Police Standards Council wrote Thursday that all marijuana conduct is "incompatible with the law enforcement profession." The decision was made at a May 3 meeting...

States such as Nevada that have legalized medical pot quickly find that implementation can get complicated thanks to the fact that marijuana remains illegal under federal law. For instance, marijuana-related businesses that operate legally according to state law still have trouble finding...

Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson has introduced a potential city ordinance that would decriminalize several minor marijuana offenses. First brought forward at last night's City Council meeting, the vote on the measure has been pushed back in order to ensure it complies with state law...

Marijuana has been legalized in Massachusetts for just a few months and legislators are already trying to prune back some of the provisions concerning the cultivation of marijuana, among other changes that could curb how people use and grow marijuana in the future. Being one of the first states...

Gov. Phil Scott has until the end of the day next Wednesday to decide whether to sign into law a bill that would legalize possession of marijuana. Senate Secretary John Bloomer delivered the bill, S.22, to the governor's office Thursday morning. By law, the governor has five days to respond...

Congressman Tom Garrett is again pushing Congress to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. On Wednesday, Garrett was joined by families who helped pass medical marijuana legislation in Virginia. Two years ago, Lisa Smith asked Virginia lawmakers to pass a law allowing her daughter...

Iowans suffering from a range of diseases and illnesses gain access to medicinal marijuana under a bill signed into law on Friday by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad. The measure, House File 524, expands access to cannabis oil to include patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, cancer, multiple...

Vermont's drug testing law is one of the most restrictive in the nation. Random testing is prohibited and some type of EAP or referral service is required in order to conduct drug testing. This law also applies to public sector workplace drug testing. However, on May 10th, 2017, the Vermont...

A bill recently signed by Washington Gov. Gov. Jay Inslee removed industrial hemp from the states controlled substance list, authorizing hemp production despite federal prohibition. But at least one state agency refuses to go down without a fight and essentially wants to help attorney general...

News of the marijuana industry in Nevada is moving faster than the Truckee River these days. Between the Department of Taxation's development of temporary regulations and the more than dozen bills passing through the state Legislature, most Nevadans cannot keep up with what they are allowed...

While cannabis is still stigmatized in parts of the United States, its use has generally become less taboo. Despite our current administration's inaccurate claims about marijuana in relation to the opioid crisis, it seems that Americans are moving toward legalization on a national level. But...