marijuana

Former NFL offensive lineman Ryan O'Callaghan revealed in June that he had always planned to commit suicide after his playing career because, as Outsports.com reported at the time, "he had decided many years ago that he would never -- could never -- live life as an openly gay man."...

Demand for permission to use, grow and sell medical marijuana in Arkansas is low as the state reaches the halfway point for the application period. Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration spokesman Scott Hardin told The Associated Press that the agency had received no applications...

As California braces for the impact of relaxed marijuana laws that allow recreational use for adults, several small, financially strapped cities in southeast Los Angeles and elsewhere are at the forefront of efforts to seize business opportunities — despite pushback from some residents. In Los...

The National Conference of State Legislatures, a body of hundreds of lawmakers representing all 50 states, passed a resolution this week urging the federal government to remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, signaling a significant shift towards marijuana legalization. The...

Illegal lollipops and other forms of cannabis candies were seized along with 11 pounds of marijuana during an arrest Wednesday at a Coconut Creek home, police said. After officers seized the drugs and $60,843 in cash, Michael Marks, 40, was arrested and charged with various counts of...

Marijuana consumers have long proselytized for their drug of choice with the notion that it's nature's herb. Weed is of the Earth; it grows naturally, and so is relatively clean compared to synthetic concoctions like cocaine, say. That's true-ish. Marijuana is illegal on a federal level in...

In 2015, Gov. Greg Abbott signed the first bill allowing any growing or sale of marijuana in Texas. The Texas Compassionate Use Act legalized the selling of a specific kind of cannabis oil derived from marijuana plants for a very small group of customers: epilepsy patients whose symptoms have...

With Manatee County’s temporary moratorium on medical marijuana dispensing facilities set to expire next month, county staff presented how such facilities will be treated in county codes. During Thursday’s Manatee County Planning Commission meeting, county staff presented a proposed Land...

The town of Deer Isle is considering a moratorium on retail marijuana establishments. Lawmakers and regulators are rolling out the legalization of voter-approved recreational marijuana. Possession of certain amounts of marijuana became legal this year, while the state approved a moratorium...

This school year, children who are prescribed medical marijuana will be allowed to use the drug in school. "They should treat it like the medication that it is," Ava Pence said. Pence's daughter Meredith suffers from epilepsy. She gives her daughter medicinal marijuana in the form of an...

Johnsie Gooslin spent Jan. 16, 2015, tending his babies — that’s what he called his marijuana plants. More than 70 of them were growing in a hydroponic system of his own design. Sometimes, he’d stay in his barn for 16 hours straight, perfecting his technique. That night, he left around 8...

Medical marijuana users in Morro Bay soon may have two locations to buy pot in town, but the city was not so accommodating for those who want to get high just for fun. Under the gun to have local rules on the books before the state begins issuing marijuana business licenses in January, the City...

With over half a million in marijuana tax revenue since 2014, Union Gap is closing out its second year of a First through Seventh grade summer camp, funded by a portion of the money. The Union Gap City Council decided the best way to spend the marijuana money was to give it to youth programs...

Since the beginning of 2014, when Colorado became the first state to let marijuana merchants serve recreational consumers, those customers have faced the challenge of finding a place where they can legally enjoy the cannabis products they can now legally buy. That problem is especially acute in...

History was made on Lake Tahoe's North Shore on Saturday, Aug. 5, when NuLeaf Tahoe opened its doors to recreational marijuana customers, becoming the first dispensary on the lake to sell marijuana to anyone 21 years and older. Customers began showing up at 9 a.m. for the store's 11 a.m...

Jeff Hunt, the vice president of public policy at Colorado Christian University, invited Westword and others to share his op-ed titled "Marijuana Devastated Colorado, Don’t Legalize It Nationally" earlier this week. Although we declined, USA Today obliged in spreading Hunt's reefer-madness...

Oregon is raising the minimum age for buying tobacco and e-cigarettes in the state to 21, bringing its regulations into line with sales of marijuana products. The new law, signed by Governor Kate Brown on Wednesday and taking effect on Jan. 1, bans under-21s from buying tobacco products and...

A new pro-medical marijuana association has been formed that includes as board members a former Arkansas attorney general and the author of the amendment that brought medical marijuana to the state. It is the second association claiming to represent the state’s upstart medical marijuana...

With thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at stake, it’s a burning question: Is Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions preparing to mess with voter-approved sales of recreational marijuana? It’s a question of prime importance in six Western and two New England states that have legalized marijuana use...

Marijuana is legal in Massachusetts, driving while high on the substance is not. That's the message from state public safety officials, who are running ads as part of an awareness campaign months after voters broadly legalized the use of recreational marijuana in the Bay State. "Drive...