marijuana

Last year the state of California produced 13.5 million pounds of marijuana, but residents only consumed 2.5 million pounds of it. Most of the state's cannabis ended up being sold to other states, including those where it is illegal. Now experts say that excess marijuana could be a problem as...

Atlanta City Council unanimously passed legislation that would reduce the penalties for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana on Monday afternoon. Councilman Kwanza Hall introduced the legislation last month. The current law allows for a penalty of up to $1,000 and up to six...

Every time he sees the cannabis cultivation and processing facility in southeastern Massachusetts, Peter Bernard says it makes his "New England blood boil." Bernard, president of the Massachusetts Grower Advocacy Council, told state regulators on Monday that's because the 1 million square...

A medical marijuana operator is demanding that the Florida Department of Health develop a regulation so vendors can begin processing and selling edible marijuana products to patients. In a petition filed Friday, Surterra Florida asked health officials to start a rule-making process involving...

The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office recently released the latest statistical data on illicit drug seizures made during 2017. Operating primarily on private property using search warrants, the Siskiyou Interagency Marijuana Investigation Team conducted a series of counter-drug operations in...

Requests for both a temporary freeze and a permanent ban on recreational marijuana businesses in town, and a request for a zoning change that would allow business on a 106-acre parcel on Route 56, are the big issues facing voters at Wednesday's special town meeting. A zoning bylaw amendment...

A Burlington company is scouting a location near downtown Middlebury for operation of a medical marijuana dispensary. The company in question is the Champlain Valley Dispensary (CVD), which currently supplies around 3,000 qualifying patients with medical marijuana – under strict state...

City leaders will take up the controversial issue of the decriminalization of marijuana in Atlanta on Monday after the proposal passed through a committee on September 26. City councilman Kwanza Hall introduced the measure back in March. It calls for reducing the penalty for possession of...

Memo to all you Golden State tokers: Your dreams of buying recreational pot in California after New Year's Day are hazy at best. It's become clear in recent weeks that most cities around the Bay Area, as well as the rest of the state, will not be ready to permit recreational cannabis sales...

Since 2015, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has overseen a county with some form of legalized marijuana. And recently the plant has catapulted his office into the national spotlight. As regulations to launch Nevada's medical marijuana industry were hammered out in the 2013...

Say good-bye to consuming edibles in the shape of animals or fruit, Colorado. The state's ban on human, animal or fruit-shaped marijuana edibles went into effect on Sunday, Oct. 1. The move by the state was done "to increase awareness of marijuana potency and make products less appealing...

Tom Beller knows the risks he faces while developing a medical marijuana facility he hopes will grow plants to supply patients across the state. Beller continues construction on one of three Kalkaska properties where village planning commissioners on Sept. 12 approved site plans for proposed...

Recreational marijuana is now legal in Massachusetts, but those looking to grow it at home still have a social hurdle to beat. "They show people in the paper and on TV that have dreadlocks, and they have nose piercings and tattoos on their faces," a Milford resident and new marijuana home...

The first medical marijuana seminar in the state took place at the Waterfront Hotel in Morgantown Saturday. The West Virginia Medical Cannabis society hosted the public event to inform people about the medical marijuana industry. The seminar comes after governor Jim Justice signed a medical...

The Senate is not inclined to pass a medical marijuana bill, according to Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III. Sotto said on Sunday that the Senate had no medical marijuana bill. He said that while newspapers reported that a medical marijuana bill had cleared the health committee of...

Pardon the pun, but the marijuana industry has been growing like a weed for years -- and it has rapidly changing perceptions about the drug among the public to thank for it. According to a CBS News poll conducted in July 1979, just 27% of those surveyed believed marijuana should be legal...

There are currently twenty nine states that have legalized marijuana, or cannabis use in some form, whether it be medically or recreationally. Of these twenty nine, eight states have legalized marijuana for recreational use. In 2016, it was reported that the number of adults who say they...

California produced at least 13.5 million pounds of marijuana last year – five times more than the 2.5 million pounds it consumed. Where did all that extra pot go? The answer, experts say, is that much of it ended up in other states – some where marijuana is still illegal. As California...

Washington pot enthusiasts might dream of someday growing their own marijuana plants at home, but Mary Jane Smith, owner of MJ's Pot Shop in Pullman, wouldn't do it if she could. "It's not like a houseplant where you go buy water and life is good," Smith said. That is why Smith does not...

When it comes to marijuana, Wiz Khalifa takes the high road. Since 2005, “Wiz Khalifa” has been former Taylor Allderdice student Cameron Jibril Thomaz’s stage name, and that’s about the only thing that hasn’t changed for the mind behind songs like 2010’s “Black and Yellow,” which became an...