marijuana

When Washington legalized recreational marijuana about five year ago, opponents warned violent crime would increase. Crime statistics tell a different story. The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that the violent crime rate per capita in the state has gone down steadily since voters...

At long last, Maryland's first legal marijuana crop is growing. With 19 companies cleared to grow, process and sell the plant, the seeds of the medical marijuana program have literally been planted, four years after the state legalized cannabis for medical use. In coming months, plants...

The marijuana industry in the United States is still in its infancy, and companies are learning how to ensure the industry is both profitable and safe. In California, for instance, there's a lack of regulation and testing of marijuana products grown in the state, and that can result in consumers...

When it comes to the fastest, most consistently growing industries in the U.S. right now, legal marijuana is near the top of the list. Investment firm Cowen & Co. has predicted that U.S. legal pot sales could grow to as much as $50 billion by 2026, with research firm ArcView estimating a...

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The state-run "Made in Alaska" program is accepting applications from marijuana businesses. According to records obtained by the Empire via a state information act request, a Nikiski business known variously as Hempco LLC and Alaska Cannabis Company, applied for a Made in Alaska...

The Planning and Zoning committee voted against the cultivation and dispensing of medical marijuana being permitted within the city. The vote at Wednesday's meeting was unanimous. City Administrator Bridgette Kabat said the committee's vote has no bearing over the legal use of medical...

The Mashpee Finance Committee voted against recommending a moratorium on retail marijuana sales in town and instead recommended to allow one, and possibly two, stores. The committee voted 5-0 against recommending an article at October Town Meeting to adopt the two-year moratorium, and 4-1 in...

On July 27th, the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations held a hearing of the full committee to markup several pieces of legislation, including S.1662, the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for 2018. News reports indicate that, during that hearing, the Senate...

The U.S. Department of Justice is secretly using the Internal Revenue Service to conduct criminal investigations into otherwise legitimate marijuana businesses in Colorado under the guise of tax audits, lawyers for the companies say in an ongoing federal lawsuit. The IRS called the...

Four of the five members of the board responsible for regulating marijuana in Massachusetts voted in November against allowing recreational use of the drug, leading supporters of legalization to call for assurances the panel would not try to slow implementation of the voter-approved law...

Marijuana legalization opponents will outnumber supporters four to one on the new commission that will spearhead the state's efforts to get a legal marijuana industry up and running by next summer and then regulate the newly legal market. Attorney General Maura Healey on Friday appointed...

There was a lineup of people with briefcases and tens of thousands of dollars in hand outside Bangor Township Hall Friday morning. The Bay County township started accepting applications for commercial medical marijuana licenses on Sept. 1 after a summer of crafting ordinances to welcome the...

A rescue operation in the eastern Aegean Sea has turned into a big marijuana bust. A Greek coast guard statement says a Turkish-flagged wooden sailboat that issued a distress call near the island of Nisyros was found to be carrying around 700 kilograms (1,500 pounds) of marijuana. The three...

While much of the marijuana news has focused on potential federal interference with legalized marijuana and California joining the ranks of legal recreational marijuana states, Florida has started what should become a mammoth medical marijuana business. Projections vary on the size of the...

A former business executive who opposed the legalization of recreational marijuana was tapped Thursday to head the Cannabis Control Commission, a new state agency responsible for regulating pot in Massachusetts. The appointment of Steven Hoffman was announced by state Treasurer Deb Goldberg...

Seven companies with experience in other states have expressed interest in testing medical marijuana in North Dakota, which is setting up a system for the drug approved by voters last year. The response pleases state officials who were concerned about how much interest there would be among...

A 52-year-old California man is facing charges after State Highway Patrol troopers recovered 143 pounds of marijuana and 300 grams of hashish, according to a news release from the Highway Patrol. Leo Charkins is charged in the incident that happened during a traffic stop Wednesday on the Ohio...

Retail marijuana dispensaries and other businesses related to recreational use of marijuana will be barred from setting up shop in Fresno after the City Council voted 4-3 Thursday to prohibit such establishments. Proposition 64, approved by California voters in November 2016, legalized the...

On 14 plots scattered across Pennsylvania this year, farmers reintroduced what was once a dominant cash crop to the state: industrial hemp, the straight-laced, non-psychoactive cannabis cousin of marijuana. Not one of the growers had any prior experience cultivating the plant, which grows...