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The legal cannabis industry in the U.S. may grow to $50 billion in the next decade, expanding to more than eight times its current size, as lawful pot purveyors gain new customers and win over users from the illicit market, according to a new report. Legalizing recreational use in California...

While many people are looking forward to this long Labor Day weekend, others have their sights set on Sept. 8, the day medical marijuana becomes legal in Ohio. In June, Ohio was the 25th state to legalize a comprehensive medical marijuana program. There's no licensed legal businesses to grow...

While many people are looking forward to this long Labor Day weekend, others have their sights set on Sept. 8, the day medical marijuana becomes legal in Ohio. In June, Ohio was the 25th state to legalize a comprehensive medical marijuana program. There's no licensed legal businesses to grow...

Legal Marijuana is going to happen, the only question is when. The most recent polls show 54% of Americans favor legalizing marijuana. Here's why you should get behind it, too. Marijuana is packed with medicinal uses we can't legally exploit here in the United States, but why? Are we still...

The Texas Public Safety Commission, which manages the DPS, will take a step today that few expected would be possible five years ago...it will begin to put together the regulations to govern the first legal production of marijuana in the state, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports. The Commission...

The Texas Public Safety Commission, which manages the DPS, will take a step today that few expected would be possible five years ago...it will begin to put together the regulations to govern the first legal production of marijuana in the state, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports. The Commission...

Leaders of the campaigns for and against the statewide proposition to legalize recreational marijuana use in Arizona appeared at a Yuma forum Tuesday to make their cases to an audience of about 30. The faceoff was sponsored by the Yuma County Chamber of Commerce, which has found itself split...

We were going to Denver for a wedding and a concert and I wanted to check out the pot scene. The cracks I hear about supporting Gary Johnson for president are mostly about his support for legalizing marijuana. Colorado and I go way back, to a teenage "coming of age" camping trip with Coors...

There have been many healthcare delivery systems that run parallel to traditional healthcare in the U.S. They're the businesses and practices selling homeopathic remedies, acupuncture, or natural childbirth. But one business has grown more rapidly and haphazardly than all the others: Medical...

There have been many healthcare delivery systems that run parallel to traditional healthcare in the U.S. They're the businesses and practices selling homeopathic remedies, acupuncture, or natural childbirth. But one business has grown more rapidly and haphazardly than all the others: Medical...

As the country heads into the final three months of what may seem like an endless political campaign, voters in five states will get to have their say at the ballot box on whether marijuana for recreational use should be legal. The biggest noise comes from California, where a legalization...

New York medical marijuana distributors have yet to make a profit eight months after medical pot went legal in the Empire State, the Albany Times Union reported Sunday. There are simply too few patients in New York because of a lengthy qualification process that makes it hard for residents to...

New York medical marijuana distributors have yet to make a profit eight months after medical pot went legal in the Empire State, the Albany Times Union reported Sunday. There are simply too few patients in New York because of a lengthy qualification process that makes it hard for residents to...

While Hawaii and cannabis have been synonymous with high potency cannabis strains and a pervasive stoner's paradise culture, the reality of cannabis-friendly travel today to Hawaii is quite different. That's because Hawaii became a medical cannabis state way back in 2000 when legislators made...

Rocky River, Ohio - Medical marijuana will soon be legal in the Buckeye State, but concerns over what that means at the local level have some cities now passing "moratoriums" and/or drawing up their own ordinances to control its sale and distribution. Rocky River's Director of Law Andrew...

Rocky River, Ohio - Medical marijuana will soon be legal in the Buckeye State, but concerns over what that means at the local level have some cities now passing "moratoriums" and/or drawing up their own ordinances to control its sale and distribution. Rocky River's Director of Law Andrew...

Will legalizing weed increase the probability that people smoke weed? Yes. Duh. But it could still be a great idea, with the right taxes. Don't take my word for it - take the word of this new paper by researchers in Australia, published in the American Economic Review. The paper takes a stab at...

Of all the distinguished Democrats roaming the halls of Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center this week, Tick Segerblom is the only one who can boast a strain of commercial marijuana that bears his name. Developed by a Nevada grower, the Segerblom Haze gives a peppy but powerful high that's heavy on...

Uruguay was the first country in the world to fully legalize the production, sale and use of marijuana, but the legal market has suffered growing pains. Uruguay announced earlier this month that legal marijuana would soon be available for sale at registered pharmacies, but only a small number...

Increasingly lax marijuana legislation may be cheered loudest in college dorms, but it's the professor-aged ganja enthusiasts who are the average consumers of the legal stuff. Headset Inc., a cannabis intelligence firm, reviewed about 40,000 legal marijuana purchases made in Washington State...