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Medical marijuana dispensaries would be allowed to stay open while the state decides who will get a license for the lucrative cannabis business, under a pair of bills introduced this week in the state Legislature. Sen. David Knezek, D-Dearborn Heights, and Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, will...

Months before California allows the sale of marijuana for recreational use, the state has launched an education campaign about the drug, including highlighting the potential harms of cannabis for minors and pregnant women. The state is scheduled to issue licenses starting Jan. 2 for growing...

Winners of last June's medical marijuana permits plan a Cannabis Program Kick-off gala Wednesday night at the Andy Warhol Museum on the North Side. It should be a remarkable gathering of sorts, considering the attendees soon will be competing for shares in a medical marijuana market of...

A Big Mac appears to be the munchie of choice for those who bought marijuana legally, according to a new marketing study. Some 43 percent who bought legal marijuana chose McDonald's as their go-to joint, according to the New-York-based Green Market Report and the Houston-based Consumer...

I've been making money off marijuana these past several years by writing about the stuff. The bottom line in the media is, whether you are for or against it, anytime you bring up marijuana you are making money off of it. The folks at Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana) – pretty much an...

A group of Michigan lawmakers are pushing for existing medical marijuana dispensaries to be able to remain open while they are applying for licenses, contrary to guidance previously issued by the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. Under a law passed in 2016, the department and...

Vermont officials have awarded a fifth medical marijuana dispensary and cultivation license to an applicant that will have locations in St. Albans and Bennington. The Times Argus reports the Waterbury-based PhytoScience Institute will start dispensing medical marijuana within six months after...

Before a single seed has been legally sown, a cannabis producer and dispensary operator is launching the state's first-ever marijuana marketing campaign. Its purpose: to alert Pennsylvanians to the medical marijuana program and get them thinking about it. Cresco Yeltrah was among 12 growers...

Medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado Springs are allowed to remain open two hours longer, after a vote Tuesday by the City Council. Previously, the city's 130 dispensaries had one of the earliest closing times--7 p.m.--in the state. But dispensaries now may close no later than 9...

An illegal growing operation consisting of 150 marijuana plants was discovered at a rural residence east of Colorado Springs after a fire was reported overnight. KKTV-TV reports that the neighbors saw flames and contacted the Tri-County Fire Department early Wednesday morning. Fire...

Rapper Young Thug was arrested in Georgia on Saturday for one count of marijuana possession and tinted front windows, a representative for the Brookhaven Police confirmed to Variety. The rep confirmed that the rapper – real name: Jeffrey Lamar Williams – is facing felony charges although he was...

For 20 years, California has been allowing the legal sale of medical marijuana in an unregulated environment and that will change in January 2018. State and local officials are now facing the challenge of bringing in line all of the players that have operated without any rules or consequences of...

Authorities made a big marijuana bust on Long Island. Suffolk County Sheriff Chief Michael Sharkey told WCBS 880's Sophia Hall the marijuana farm was underneath a utility storage building on a dirt road in Manorville. Donald Guichard allegedly lived underground with 100 live plants and 30...

A Mesa County sheriff's deputy found 3,100 pounds of marijuana after stopping a speeding truck on Saturday, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports. According to an arrest affidavit, the deputy pulled over a white Penske moving truck on a speeding violation on 29 Road in Fruitvale when...

With just nine months before recreational, or adult-use, marijuana is set to go on sale in Massachusetts, the state's new Cannabis Control Commission has set an aggressive schedule to hear from the public, hire a permanent executive director, and get down to the business of drawing up...

After a vote Tuesday afternoon, the Atlanta City Council is one vote away from decriminalizing possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana. The City Council's public safety committee decided to send the plan to the full council. The committee voted three votes for, one against and one no...

Northern Michigan University is offering students the chance to major in a new program called medicinal plant chemistry — marijuana analysis, basically. The program is the first of its kind at a four-year university in the U.S., according to CBS Detroit. Students will take classes in chemistry...

Marijuana busts increased last year, with nearly 600,000 people being arrested on a possession charge–a staggering number that costs taxpayers billions of dollars even as the vast majority of Americans support legalization of the drug. The new arrest data, released Monday by the FBI, comes...

There was no shortage of comments as scores of Mainers filled a hearing room and two overflow rooms at the State House to express their concerns with proposed legislation to regulate the recreational sale of marijuana in Maine. And those testifying were not shy about spelling out what they don't...

More people in the U.S. were arrested last year in pot-related cases than for murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery combined. In 2016 more people were arrested for marijuana possession than for all crimes the FBI classifies as violent, according to 2016 crime data released by the agency...