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With the Opioid Epidemic taking over America, will Medical Marijuana dispensaries begin to replace pharmacies in providing adequate pain medication? It is seeming like more of a possibility, as scientists are allocating more time and money to study marijuana's effects on pain, dispensaries are...

Learn about the expanding marijuana industry, meet people in the business, hear former Mexico President Vicente Fox's views on legalization, or just breathe deeply of cannabis culture. The third annual Southwest Cannabis Convention and Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center will let you do all...

A third of teens think smoking marijuana and driving is legal, according to a new study. Out of 2,800 teens surveyed, 33% said driving under the influence of marijuana is legal in states where it's recreational. More than 20% of teens reported it's common among their friends. Parent...

Last year, we told you about the tragic death of Jack Splitt, the fifteen-year-old namesake of Jack's Law, a landmark bill that allowed young medical marijuana patients in Colorado, like him, to take their cannabis-based medication at school. More than a year later, Mark Pedersen, who made MMJ...

Fourteen Potential Colorado marijuana business owners put their names in a lottery for the opportunity to open a retail marijuana store in Palisade. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports the bingo-style drawing was held Wednesday at the Palisade Civic Center to determine which of the...

The Silver State is seeing green, having hauled in $3.68 million in state tax revenue during the first month of legal marijuana sales. The bulk of the revenue was generated by Nevada's 10 percent retail tax on sales of recreational marijuana, totaling $2.71 million in July, the Nevada...

A 46-year-old man is facing drug charges following a search warrant. Authorities executed a search warrant at 3699 E. Main Rd. in Dunkirk on Wednesday. Officers seized more than eight pounds of marijuana (138 ounces), a quantity of concentrated cannabis, electronic scales, vacuum sealer...

Georgia police discovered a "highly" sophisticated indoor pot operation in a Gainesville home, where a basement was converted into a greenhouse holding more than 500 marijuana plants, officials told Fox News. "The photos really don't do it justice," Lt. Dan Scalia, who is in charge of the...

Deadly wildfires in Northern California are burning up marijuana farms in the so-called Emerald Triangle. Blazes have destroyed a number of farms in Mendocino County right before legal recreational sales begin in California. Cannabis business owners who lose their crops have little...

In the United States, marijuana has come a long, long way. In 1931, the state of Texas declared marijuana a "narcotic," allowing a life sentence for possession of pot. In 2016, California, Nevada, Maine, and Massachusetts all legalized recreational marijuana through a ballot initiative...

Local parents made the compelling case Tuesday to expand the state's medical marijuana program. The most dramatic testimony at the State Office Building came from parents who had children with autism. They said they had been able to get medical cannabis for other symptoms — such as seizures –...

All African nations are capable of cultivating medicinal marijuana to exploit a growing international acceptance of cannabis-based medicines. The current global market for marijuana products is US$3 billion and is expected to rise to US$56 billion as more countries and US states join the...

One aspect about legalizing marijuana that no one talks about is budgeting. No, not how government budgets. Personal budgets. It turns out people who purchase marijuana are actually becoming smarter with their budgets. A new study examined the consumer habits of marijuana purchasers in legal...

Two members of the newly-appointed Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission traveled to the Vineyard Tuesday to listen to the thoughts and ideas of Islanders, as the state crafts new regulations for recreational marijuana. Commissioners Kay Doyle and Britte McBride hosted the listening...

Several Carlisle residents say they oppose village council rescinding a temporary ban on medical marijuana businesses because it would be harmful to the community and reduce property values. Ohio Craft Cultivators LLC, a company with a state application pending for a medical marijuana...

Atascadero residents will soon be able to have recreational marijuana delivered to their homes and grow plants in their own yards, but the city remains closed for business when it comes to dispensaries. City Council members on Tuesday night voted unanimously to pass an ordinance regulating...

Longmont City Council has voted to allow up to four retail businesses to sell marijuana and marijuana products within city limits, nixing a years-old ban on medical and recreational pot shops. The Daily Times-Call reports that the City Council on Tuesday voted 4-3 in favor of lifting the ban...

Maine has named a new director of its medical marijuana program, a position that had been vacant for a year. Craig S. Patterson, a former management analyst in the state Department of Health and Human Services, has filled the position that was last held by Marietta D'Agostino, who left the...

As Louisiana's medical marijuana program edges closer to kickoff, only two doctors in the state have applied for permission to dispense the drug, raising questions about whether patients struggling with chronic pain and suffering will gain access to the treatment they lobbied so hard to get...

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission is expected to discuss when they will issue cultivation and dispensary licenses. The commission meets Monday evening and will go over how many applications they have received, those eligible for merit scoring and the number of dispensary applications...