marijuana

Although more states have legalized recreational marijuana since Colorado became the first state to allow its sale, Colorado remains rich with some of the most innovative minds in the industry. On top of the nearly 1,500 licensed marijuana businesses in Colorado that actually touch the plant...

Detectives arrested a Pinellas Park man after they found 36 marijuana plants inside a St. Petersburg home Wednesday. St. Petersburg Police Vice and Narcotics detectives executed a search warrant on a home in the 5600 block of Burlington Avenue North, shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday, according...

A petition to introduce an ordinance that would reduce penalties for having small amounts of pot in Wichita has hit a road block. The Sedgwick County Elections Office declared the marijuana reform initiative petition as insufficient stating that 2,851 signatures were disqualified for various...

Acting on a tip from federal authorities, drug agents seized about $1 million worth of marijuana Wednesday from a house in Henry County, a spokesman said. Officers with the Flint Circuit Drug Task Force found about 1,250 pounds of marijuana in a house on Chestnut Lane in the Stockbridge area...

A third man was sentenced in federal court for his role in an illegal marijuana dispensary in Bozeman. At a hearing in U.S. District Court in Missoula on Thursday morning, Michael James Mason, 34, was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to money laundering in connection...

When New Jersey Senator Cory Booker introduced the Marijuana Justice Act on Aug. 1, he knew its odds of becoming law were slim to none. From a practical perspective, the bill – which would remove cannabis from the Drug Enforcement Agency's scheduling system – is likely to fare no better (and...

Oregon's governor and the head of the state police defended the state's legal marijuana industry in letters to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has been hinting at a crackdown on states such as Oregon that have legalized pot in defiance of federal law. Gov. Kate Brown noted Tuesday in...

California City is gearing up to be the next big player in the medical marijuana cultivation space. As 23ABC News has reported in the past, the city has been awarding business licenses to dozens of marijuana businesses in the cultivation, manufacturing and distribution spaces over the past...

The issue of how recreational marijuana should be sanctioned and how medicinal marijuana fits into the football painkiller lexicon has been much discussed over the past half-decade. And so it was that the NFL reached out to the NFLPA on July 6 to explore spending a piece of their "joint...

Black-market marijuana has been very good for Michael. For 22 years, he has grown and sold the stuff in and around Montreal. An illegal activity punishable by up to life in prison, selling the pungent bounty that he cultivates in his basement has nonetheless given Michael the sheen of...

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker isn't fighting against the war on drugs by himself. His legislation to end the federal ban on marijuana has the support of the Drug Policy Alliance, an advocacy group whose honorary board includes former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders and former Secretary of State...

Officials in Washington state think U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has it all wrong when it comes to the state's legal marijuana market. Last week, Gov. Jay Inslee and State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, both Democrats, fired off a letter saying Sessions recently made "a number of...

California has a long history as the Golden State and as the "Green State" because its marijuana history spans over a century, all the way back to the Poison Act of 1907. The Poison and Pharmacy Act of 1907 banned the sale of opium, cocaine, and morphine without a prescription. In 1913, an...

Cannabis use has been debated in the public opinion for over a century now. Despite the fact that the ups and downs marijuana has gone through, today such states as Alaska, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington among others have decided to legalize the herb’s use for recreational purposes while more...

A Democratic state senator who opposed the ballot question that legalized recreational marijuana was named Wednesday by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker to the regulatory board that will oversee the cannabis industry in Massachusetts. Sen. Jennifer Flanagan, of Leominster, is the first appointee...

Governor Charlie Baker has appointed state Senator Jen Flanagan, a Leominster Democrat who opposed the legalization of marijuana, to the new state commission that will oversee the commercial pot industry in Massachusetts. The Cannabis Control Commission, or CCC, will approve and regulate pot...

Medicinal cannabis, also known as medicinal marijuana, is used either to treat disease or improve symptoms. Cannabis has been considered to be a major source of drug addiction. Extract from the dried flower bud part of the plant called as Marijuana has certain medicinal properties. The two...

Hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) is projected to be a billion-dollar market in just three years, according to a new report by Brightfield Group. The data company estimates that hemp CBD sales have already hit $170 million in 2016 and a 55% compound annual growth rate over the next five years will...

Gov. Charlie Baker will tap state Sen. Jennifer Flanagan, a Leominster Democrat, for a spot on the state's new Cannabis Control Commission, putting in place the first member of the powerful new panel. Flanagan, who has served in the Senate since 2008 and opposed the ballot question legalizing...

City Council members grudgingly told staff Tuesday night to come back with an ordinance regulating how medical and recreational marijuana will be sold in town. If they didn't, the state would be calling the shots on where marijuana would be cultivated and sold in Vacaville as of Jan. 1, 2018...