marijuana

Opening a medical marijuana dispensary in Florida naturally comes with a lot of red tape. Marijuana is still considered an illegal substance at the federal level, despite the 29 states that have legalized it for recreational or medicinal use in recent years. That makes it nearly impossible...

The legalization of marijuana has become so mainstream that a segment called "Marijuana Moms" appeared on the "Today Show" earlier this month, featuring moms who regularly smoke weed and claim it makes them better parents. But make no mistake, scores of people, particularly poor and of color...

An explosion in a house Wednesday night in Redford Township seriously injured three people, and police suspect it involved an explosive marijuana processing operation. The three people in the house when the explosion occurred, at 8:15 p.m. on the 20100 block of Woodworth, were hospitalized...

Steven Hoffman, a veteran corporate executive and consultant, was named the chair of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, the newly created agency that will usher in an era of legal marijuana use. The appointment Thursday by state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg makes Hoffman, a...

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission has not yet received applications for pot-growing and cultivation facilities as of Wednesday (Aug. 30), and there have only been two submissions to locate a cannabis dispensary within the state less than three weeks before the state's...

An investigation of theft of electricity led to the discovery of 46 marijuana plants, according to Pasco County Sheriff's Office. On Wednesday, Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative asked the Sheriff's Office to look into the suspicious usage of power at 9637 Lake Chrise Lane in New Port...

Cannabis consumers, consultants and dispensary representatives offered their ideas this week on how Oceanside can create a medical marijuana ordinance unique to its needs. "The real issue is going to be on the dispensary side," said Oceanside Councilman Jerry Kern. He's one of four members of...

Row after row of marijuana plants grow indoors under bright lights and constant 75-degree temperature. Nutrients are piped into the plants through a computer-controlled watering device. Workers in full body suits wearing hairnets and surgical masks fill vials with marijuana oil. "It's an...

Atascadero residents likely won't be allowed to buy marijuana from a local dispensary or start their own commercial grow operations anytime soon. City officials Tuesday night continued to take a cautious approach to allowing commercial marijuana activities as they draft policies in response...

If you want to see the problems facing women in business, look no further than the cannabis industry. Not long ago the marijuana business was way ahead of U.S. business overall in the leadership positions held by women. But as the industry has become more mature and more mainstream, instead...

D.C. legalized medical marijuana in 2014, removing criminal penalties to possess, consume and grow cannabis in small amounts. But you still can't sell it unless you have an established medical marijuana business. People wanting to open dispensaries need to go through a lengthy application...

Debby Goldsberry, co-founder of Berkeley Patients Group, wrote Idiot's Guides: Starting and Running a Marijuana Business in a brisk five months, and it hit bookstore shelves in June. The timing couldn't be better, as the adult recreational use of marijuana becomes fully legal in California on...

City voters will have to wait until September to find out if they will be able to weigh in on a potential ban on the sale of recreational marijuana after a contentious special City Council meeting Tuesday night. The majority of city voters (58 percent) were in favor of legalizing recreational...

The city of Pittsburgh has begun the process of setting up a permitting and zoning process for medical marijuana facilities. Currently, three dispensaries are set to open in January. All three got special waivers from the Planning and Zoning Board to apply, and were granted permission by...

The marijuana industry is growing like a weed, and it's been putting smiles on the faces of marijuana stock investors. Of the one dozen largest marijuana stocks by market cap, a vast majority are up over the trailing year, and the average gain of those twelve is well over 100%. In other words...

The irony of it all is overwhelming. Gaetan Bourgoin, who had no trouble getting his worker's compensation insurance to pay for decades' worth of highly addictive painkillers of dubious value to his chronic pain, has been forced to go into his own pocket for the one treatment he has found to be...

A State University College at Oswego student was arrested after a traffic stop for carrying 41 pounds of marijuana, university police said. John J. Turano Jr., 19, was charged Sunday with felony possession of marijuana, police said. Turano is a sophomore at SUNY Oswego and is originally...

Dr. Nina Robb learned about the effects of alcohol intoxication when she was in medical school. She also learned about alcohol-induced liver disease. She learned about heroin overdose and how methamphetamine affects the human body. When it came to marijuana, she never heard one word good or...

The Nevada Tax Commission on Tuesday dealt another blow to liquor distributors hoping to hold a monopoly on distributing retail marijuana throughout the state. Tax commissioners voted to uphold a determination by the Nevada Tax Department that there are not enough licensed liquor distributors...

The commission regulating medical marijuana in Maryland was unaware that it awarded a dispensary license in Annapolis to a man under federal investigation for workplace discrimination for at least three years. Advanced Alternative Therapies owner David Podrog, former owner of Maritime Car...