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With solutions to Illinois' fiscal crisis seemingly blocked by partisan politics, it's time to start looking at new ideas. That's why we have introduced a bill to legalize the purchase of up to an ounce of marijuana, regulating and taxing it as we already do with alcohol. The revenues would help...

During the first week of March, the Marist Poll conducted the Weed & the American Family survey, funded by Yahoo News and focusing on the impact of marijuana use on relationships and the family. Barbara Brohl, executive director of Colorado's Department of Revenue, told the panel her state's...

The marijuana industry is growing like a weed. Last year, legal weed sales grew by 34%, according to cannabis research firm ArcView, and by 2021, legal sales (which includes medical and recreational pot) are expected to exceed $22 billion. Investment firm Cowen & Co. has an even more bullish...

A new CBS News poll today finds that 61 percent of Americans feel pot should be legal - up five percent from previous year - and the highest percentage ever recorded in this poll. Millennials ages 18-34 overwhelmingly support recreational marijuana by 76 percent, while those ages 35-64 all...

Support for legalizing marijuana is at it's highest with U.S. voters across the political spectrum - whether Democrats, Republicans or independents, according to a new poll by the General Social Survey. Although a higher percentage of Democratic voters agreed marijuana should be legal in the...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions became the second member of the Trump administration in less than a week to provide "alternative facts" and backward analysis when it comes to marijuana. Yesterday, in a meeting with reporters, Sessions spoke out against marijuana legalization and implied that...

I am planning on a half dozen plants in my vegetable garden this summer. Watering will be fine as the tomatoes are always plump, but can anyone tell me about soil differentials? Will marijuana grow with my miracle grow vegetables?

Santa Monica – The Santa Monica City Council will meet with city staff on Wednesday, March 7 to conduct a study session on the impact of allowing local legal marijuana dispensaries within city limits in response to the voter backed California Proposition 64. Proposition 64 will allow the...

Marijuana legalization proponents on Thursday ripped Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker for saying the state is in somewhat of a "no man's land" after voters approved recreational use of the substance in November. Jim Borghesani, a spokesman for the "Yes on 4" coalition, which pushed the...

Calling cannabis "weed" isn't popular with many enthusiasts of the flower, but it's also something many can relate to. Weed, pot, grass–medicine? There's a revolution in America right now. The pot leaf has been let out of the bag, and it's not going back in. Currently recreational marijuana...

Hey hey.. ..it's been a little bit. Life is funny sometimes. Sometimes you grow reefer and sometimes you have to buy it. Let me start by saying I've missed everyone here while I've been away.. the man needed me for a bit. I have a dope spot in the sticks so I figured I'd go off outdoors this...

Marijuana is a crutch on which many were hoping to lean for the next four years. That alone explains why our bronzed chief executive might be looking to snatch it away. Why else would President Donald J. Trump select unabashed marijuana-phobe Jeff Sessions to run the Department of Justice? One...

Maine on Monday became the eighth state in the nation to allow adults over the age of 21 to possess and consume marijuana for recreational purposes. Maine joins six Western states and neighboring Massachusetts in allowing recreational pot, after voters narrowly passed a ballot measure in...

Maine on Monday became the eighth U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana use and the state's Republican governor called on lawmakers to approve funds to develop rules to oversee retail sales of the drug. The measure was narrowly approved by voters on Nov. 8 to make it legal for adults...

Sacramento — The future of California's legal marijuana industry is being shaped in a warren of cubicles tucked inside a retired basketball arena, where a garden of paper cannabis leaves sprouts on file cabinets and a burlap sack advertising "USA Home Grown" dangles from a wall. Here, in the...

Portland , Maine – Recreational marijuana became legal in Maine at 12 a.m. Monday. Here's what you can do under the legal marijuana law: The law, which was passed by referendum in November, allows adults 21 and over to legally possess 2.5 ounces of marijuana. Adults can also have six...

maine passed rec . weed last nov. starting today its officially legal to grow your own weed. your allowed 6 mature budding plants or their processed equivalent. 2.5oz. on your person. 12 immature plants over 24in. but not wider than 18in. and unlimited seedlings under 24in. for a expert grower...

I finally escaped Washington, D.C., last month, arriving by car with my girlfriend as new residents of Seattle early this month. I've welcomed most of the changes I've seen here–apart from the Lenin Statue near our apartment. The traffic is lighter. The food is better. The people are nicer...

Hello all! 1st post from Canada after a long wait for legal papers..BUT! I am here, I am legal and very very excited! I've been lurking the grow journals for some time now and thought it was time to start communicating! :Namaste:

Will future recreational marijuana outlets, including cannabis consumption clubs, become part of the gambling cards for Cripple Creek? This question, one of the prime issues facing the gaming community this year, is still commanding much attention at local meetings and is generating a fair...