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San Diego will have a fully legal and regulated marijuana industry, including pot farms, factories making edibles and retail storefronts selling the drug to both medical and recreational customers. In a 6-3 vote Monday, the City Council agreed to legalize local cultivation, manufacturing and...

Thomas James Brennan makes a powerful case that military veterans deserve access to medical marijuana, which can help alleviate physical and mental war wounds ("Why Pot, Not Pills, Works for My T.B.I.," Op-Ed, Sept. 1). Mr. Brennan is correct that federal law prevents doctors in the...

Long before tourists started converging here to sample freshly legalized marijuana in the form of gummy bears and chocolate brownies, thousands of Coloradans were cultivating the medicinal plants for their own consumption and to share with ailing friends. Now that the Trump administration is...

Able to buy but with nowhere to smoke, Las Vegas tourists and locals could soon have a place to light up their weed. An opinion from the Legislative Counsel Bureau released Monday said no state law prohibits local governments from permitting for marijuana consumption in businesses. That...

Mounting legal challenges are threatening to bog down the rollout of the state's medical marijuana program, leading to significant delays in treatment for patients as previously experienced in states such as Maryland and Florida, advocates fear. At least 140 unsuccessful medical marijuana...

The San Diego City Council voted 6-3 Monday on an option for regulating marijuana use in San Diego, now that it is legal. Council members chose between two options. The first would have allowed testing of marijuana and marijuana products in labs in industrial and commercial zones that...

A powerful Senate panel is urging federal agencies to make a number of surprising marijuana moves, including launching an effort to test products sold at dispensaries in states where cannabis has been legalized. Concerned about a lack of data on the potency and purity of cannabis available to...

The Liberal government's plan to have marijuana legalized by July 2018 won't wipe out the black market for some time, and could come with other unintended consequences, the committee of MPs studying the legislation heard Monday. "It will take time. We will learn what this marketplace needs...

A group of pro-cannabis businesses are urging medical marijuana patients in Michigan to share their experiences through a social media campaign. The campaign was created by three Michigan-based, women-owned businesses, and is seeking responses on Sept. 12, the next meeting of the state's...

Student Senator Tara Chattoraj introduced a resolution to Illinois Student Government last Wednesday to support allowing medical marijuana in University Housing. The resolution would urge the University to revise the Student Code as well as University Housing regulations to allow for the...

The 'Cannabis Caucus' on Capital Hill is lashing out against the House of Representatives for stripping medical marijuana patients of their only protection from the DEA. The caucus — a bipartisan group of lawmakers advocating marijuana reform — was quick to condemn the House committee that...

The City of Goleta will work fast to try to adopt rules for regulating recreational marijuana sales, but if it cannot agree on an ordinance by Jan. 1, the city intends to enact a temporary ban. Such a ban would give Goleta more time to craft a reasonable, well-considered ordinance, and...

The pungent scent and smoke of weed mingled with that of jerk chicken on the grill in Brooklyn's Crown Heights on Labor Day during New York's annual Caribbean Carnival Parade. As steel bands and reggae music played from floats, a man worked a sidewalk hawking small clumps of marijuana from a...

While no industry is perfect, if you've purchased marijuana stocks at some point over the past year, you're probably seeing green right now. Of the 14 largest marijuana stocks by market cap, the average gain among them over the trailing 12 months is a better than 100% return. Why such love...

A Colorado-based corporation announced it has secured $10 million in equity to build a massive cannabis cultivation and processing facility in southeastern Massachusetts. AmeriCann plans the 1 million-square-foot Massachusetts Medical Cannabis Center in Freetown, near Fall River. It could be...

Monday, the city of San Diego is set to debate the last remaining question before the City Council about marijuana: Where should businesses that manufacture, cultivate, distribute and test it be allowed? Or should they be allowed at all? Delivery services are also hoping the City Council...

The latest federal survey data shows that while teen marijuana use continues to decline in the era of legal pot, adult use is rising. The percent of people over the age of 18 who smoke it in a given year has risen from 10.4 percent in 2002 to 14.1 percent in 2016. In other words, 46 million...

Medical marijuana users from across the country gathered at the Auto City Speedway in Clio for the annual all-medical Cannabis Cup. The two day event held on Sept. 9-10 featured an edibles village, a cannabis career fair, topical massage spa, vape lounge and musical entertainment. Artists...

Iredell deputies say their months-long investigation into the trafficking of marijuana by using mail delivery services has yielded another arrest. David Allen Smith, 40, was arrested on Wednesday after deputies searched his home near Statesville and found numerous containers they say were...

Nature's Remedy, a nonprofit medical marijuana company, has received approval to open a dispensary at 300 Newburyport Turnpike. The owners anticipate opening in September 2018. This summer, the principals of Nature's Remedy laid out plans to the Board of Selectmen for a retail facility that...