marijuana

Everything about Elevate Medical Pharmacy looked like a legitimate marijuana dispensary. A large sign out front displayed the business' name. A neon "Open" sign shone bright in the window. Inside, it looked like a typical pot shop: OG Kush, Sour Diesel and other popular marijuana strains...

The state is opening up the medical marijuana business to big-time grow operations, according to an advisory released Thursday. When the Legislature passed medical marijuana bills last year, it created three classes of licenses for growers: Class A - up to 500 plants; Class B - up to 1,000...

A salesman, it seems, left his briefcase at The Avant apartment community in Pembroke Pines Thursday. Pembroke Pines police have the briefcase and invite the owner to claim it -- all of it. The briefcase and the 10.75 pounds of marijuana inside, carefully packed into seven sealed packages...

Nevada took a gamble on recreational marijuana, and it’s paying off. Dispensaries sold $27.1 million of pot in Nevada, in July alone. That's almost double what both Colorado and Oregon sold in their first months. It's almost seven times what Washington sold. Banking on weed, Nevada made...

It's hard to justify $45 for an ordinary black cotton T-shirt, but the customer at a store in Washington D.C.'s Adams Morgan neighborhood does so without question. The clerk grabs a clear plastic box containing about one gram of marijuana and drops it into the bag, reciting a practiced line...

Officials often boast about doing things the Long Beach way, and Thursday's lottery drawing for medical marijuana licenses was no different. Shortly after 9 a.m., officials kicked off a process inside City Hall that would allow a limited number of applicants to move toward opening a...

She was an international model. He was an NFL star. Both from Oskaloosa, Iowa. Jessica VerSteeg said Tyler Sash was everything a girlfriend would want – handsome, athletic, funny, with fashionable style. But Sash was also in constant pain. Years of football at the University of Iowa and...

A series of Tulare County Sheriff Department's early morning raids Wednesday led to the seizure of hundreds of marijuana plants and the discovery of a 2-year-old child in one of the suspected drug dens. On Wednesday morning, detectives with Tulare County Sheriff Department's Tulare Area Gang...

By definition, recreational marijuana is intended to be fun (as opposed to "medical marijuana" or, possibly, "professional marijuana.") But since legalizing recreational marijuana back in 2014, officials in Colorado have realized that, though using marijuana might be alluring, trying to make...

A Vermont commission is beginning the process of determining what will be the best way to move forward in the legalization of recreational marijuana. The 13-member Marijuana Advisory Commission and support staff held its first meeting Thursday at Public Safety Headquarters in Waterbury...

A Maine legislative panel agreed Thursday on how to divvy tax revenue from recreational marijuana sales after putting the kibosh on drive-thru sales, internet sales and home delivery. The Joint Select Committee on Marijuana Legalization Implementation wants to provide 5 percent to towns that...

In a bedroom of her Healy Terrace apartment, 65-year-old Susan Deschene created an elaborate growing room for three carefully cultivated marijuana plants in containers filled with ground-up coconut husks. For the pain-racked family and child counselor – who uses a wheelchair and whose health...

In a year where the forces of racism, xenophobia and hate are ascendant, and our rights are under siege, it has become understandably difficult for many to envision a future beyond the latest injustice of the week. But the impressive resistance movement that has risen to challenge the Trump...

A legislative committee plans to consider a bill to double the recreational marijuana sales tax to 20 percent and ban marijuana social clubs until 2019. The Legislature's Joint Select Committee on Marijuana Legalization Implementation is set to vote Thursday on whether to recommend the...

To stave off prison time, Mark Shanklin of St. Louis must convince the Missouri Supreme Court that in 2014, Missouri voters approved a pro-farming constitutional amendment with the intent to legalize growing marijuana. Putting aside the question of whether Shanklin succeeds – the court is...

Niagara-on-the-Lake will soon boast the largest legal marijuana facility in the world, with one million square feet of greenhouses on Concession 5 to be in production by next summer, when recreational pot is expected to be legalized by the federal government. About one third of that space is...

Officials in Gibsonburg and Oak Harbor originally thought they would know this month if companies would be getting state medical marijuana cultivation licenses to build new facilities in those villages. Instead, the two villages will have to wait a little while longer to see if their...

As proposed legislation to decriminalize recreational marijuana use awaits approval from the attorney-general, the Agriculture Ministry recently announced it is classifying medical-grade-cannabis growing as an official farming sector. The move thereby entitles between 15 and 20 marijuana...

Advocates of medical marijuana are in high spirits after the health committee of the House of Representatives endorsed a bill allowing the use of cannabis to treat chronic or debilitating health conditions. The House panel on Monday unanimously approved the committee draft report on the...

The munchies are driving up fast-food sales in states where marijuana is legal. Cannabis has been shown to increase users' appetite, sending many customers of legalized dispensaries to fast-food chains, according to a new study by Green Market Report and Consumer Research Around Cannabis...