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In February 2016, the Orange County Register broke what seemed like a major medical-marijuana story. Television celebrity Roseanne Barr was set to open a legal dispensary at 1327 E. Saint Gertrude Place in Santa Ana. Roseanne's Joint would sell a line of her own products, including cannabis...

Municipal attorney Ted Kelleher of Drummond Woodsum appeared Jan. 25 at the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission's workshop on the marijuana initiative for town officials, "Weeding Through Marijuana Legalization: What It Means For Our Towns." Kelleher outlined the current state of...

The City of Fife has settled its longstanding legal battles with Greybeard Holdings over the city's moratorium on marijuana businesses. This comes after more than two years of hearings and appeals that have proven costly in attorneys' fees and the loss of potentially hundreds of thousands of...

Pro-legalization advocates like Jim Borghsani are outraged and said the legislature is deliberately going against voters' rights. The senate president said safety is the major concern. "The amount of material that will be produced is substantially larger than two individuals could actually...

When recreational marijuana was legalized in Massachusetts, a lot of people celebrated. But my perspective made it a lot harder to enjoy. As the legal pot industry booms, it's not only notable that black individuals are left outside of the success of the industry, but simultaneously are being...

A new report estimates consumers spent $53.3 billion on cannabis in North America last year. The first-of-its-kind analysis, compiled by ArcView Market Research, spans legal, medical and illegal marijuana markets across both the United States and Canada. At around $46 billion, the illegal...

California's new marijuana laws don't take effect until 2018, but a big-money race to help the state regulate the industry is already in progress. Even though California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana and is the largest legal marijuana market in the country, it has not yet...

I'll edit or add some pics in another post to this journal in a bit, but I just wanted to get it started with a few details... Keep'n it Legal...to that NOTE I'm a Colorado Resident going on 3 years now. I started my first grow late 2016, linked in my SIG below. In CO the law says anyone can...

Chicago-based Salveo Capital, a venture firm dedicated to legal cannabis sector, has collected the first commitments for its $25m-targeting debut fund. Salveo Fund I has landed $1.69m from 20 unnamed LPs according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing...

Los Angeles - Since Proposition 64 passed, many Californians have assumed that all sales and use of marijuana have become legal. But in fact, recreational sales don't become legal until next year. There is additional confusion over what's legal and what isn't. "When Prop. 64 passed, all...

The Task Force on Marijuana Legalization and Regulation did not say, "create a marijuana marketing board." Yet its recommendations would, if implemented, effectively impose a supply management system on cannabis. Suppliers would be licensed, and subject to production limits. These controls would...

The Senate Judiciary Committee began confirmation hearings Tuesday for President-Elect Donald Trump's Attorney General pick, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. Sessions' appointment has stirred up controversy among a slew of groups, including advocates pushing for marijuana reform, who staged a sit-in...

Hi everyone I have a petition to increase the protection for growers in Mn under the medical program. If anyone would be willing to help on the petition in either offering there advise or in signing I could use all the help that anyone can give. My Petition

Maryland's would-be medical marijuana growers face a conundrum known as the "immaculate conception" problem: How do you grow legal marijuana plants when it's a felony to obtain the seeds? The first step in growing state-sanctioned legal marijuana is to break the law, a paradox that has...

The marijuana industry is at a crossroads. Voters have approved recreational marijuana measures in eight states plus the District of Columbia. When these laws become fully implemented in the next few years, more than one in five American adults will live in places where they can walk into a...

The reasons to oppose decriminalizing marijuana are becoming fewer and fewer by the day. The war on drugs, specifically marijuana, is coming to an end sooner rather than later, and it's all thanks to statistics like this one. According to Forbes, new statistics show that North America's legal...

Vicente Sederberg, one of Colorado's first law firms to focus solely on marijuana, is expanding. Two of the firm's partners were involved in crafting Amendment 64, the proposal to legalize recreational marijuana that Colorado voters approved in 2012, and the firm also had a hand in writing...

Becoming a patient in Wyoming Becoming a Patient Under HB 32 Registering for protections under HB 32 requires that a patient (or their parent or legal guardian) complete an application and the patient's neurologist complete two additional forms: a written certification and a patient evaluation...

Becoming a Patient in Louisiana Summary In 2016, the state passed and signed a pair of bills, SB 271 and SB 180. The pair of bills fixes the "prescription" language issue, establishes legal protection for patients, and expands the qualifying conditions. What's Legal Patients will be...

Becoming a Patient in Georgia Summary In April of 2015 Georgia House Bill 1, "Haleigh's Hope Act," became law. The law creates an exemption for the possession and use of some types of marijuana. Patients with severe forms of seizure disorders and seven other medical conditions are eligible...