marijuana

When it comes to the fastest-growing industries in the U.S., few, if any, can top legal marijuana. According to Marijuana Business Daily's newest report, "Marijuana Business Factbook 2017," legal sales of the drug -- including medical and recreational weed -- are expected to grow by...

Ohioans wouldn't be able to buy edible medical marijuana that looks like a cartoon character, superhero or pop-culture figure. But they would be able to buy a 90-day supply in the form of a capsule, cream, lotion, oil, solid, transdermal patch or plant material for vaporization from 7 a.m. to...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's office staff can expect to hear a lot about marijuana over the next few weeks. Advocates for broadly legalizing marijuana in Texas for medical purposes, and for decriminalizing low-volume possession of all pot, have begun exhorting supporters to email or call the...

With recreational marijuana now legal in Massachusetts, cities and towns are scrambling to put rules in place around dispensaries, cannabis cafes, and more. The Easthampton Planning Board is about to begin its own discussion. Tuesday night, the board plans to discuss "a purpose statement for...

In some circles, Jessica Andreavich is known as the Robin Hood of Delaware's medical marijuana community. But to law enforcement and others, she is a drug dealing felon who gamed the system. For years, the activist and medicinal marijuana cardholder turned the plant form of the drug into...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Friday he remained wary of the impact legalized recreational marijuana might have on the state, yet hopeful that revisions made in the voter-approved law would ease some of his biggest concerns. The Republican spoke after signing a compromise bill...

Cuyahoga and Franklin counties would get five medical marijuana stores each, while many rural and some suburban counties would have none under a proposal to distribute Ohio's limited number of available licenses. The Ohio State Board of Pharmacy expects more than 200 applications for up to 60...

An estimated $483,000 worth of marijuana and butane honey oil were seized after narcotics officers served a search warrant at a metal shop in Oroville. Members of the Butte County Sheriff's Office's Special Enforcement Unit and the Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force served the warrant...

A marijuana industry organization leader says growers in the state of California are growing the plant at a rate of about eight times the amount actually legally consumed, as the Los Angeles Times reports. Growers across the state may be forced to scale back production, especially as state...

More people are smoking weed these days, sparking a haze of complications and confusion in the workplace. A growing number of states in the US – and countries around the world – are legalising or decriminalising recreational and medical marijuana, forcing businesses to grapple with how to deal...

A trio of local attorneys announced Friday a specialty legal practice to serve clients in Pennsylvania's emerging medical marijuana industry. Pittsburgh attorney Patrick Nightingale, executive director of the Pennsylvania Medical Cannabis Society, formed Cannabis Legal Solutions along with...

South Floridians could have to pay more than other Floridians for medical marijuana after the state awards five new grower licenses in the next week. None of the new licenses are likely to be issued to South Florida, where many of the qualified patients live. Zachary Davis, a lawyer for Keith...

Maryland's highest court has ruled that finalists to become licensed to grow medical marijuana in the state can defend their interests against a legal challenge over how those finalists were picked. The Court of Appeals on Friday reversed a lower court ruling that barred the finalists from...

The list of companies wanting to break into Ohio's budding medical marijuana business includes major players on the national and international stage with experience and access to financing that gives them an edge, according to industry experts and insiders. The only details state officials...

A sixth medical marijuana dispensary will be operating in New Jersey by the end of the year after the state granted a long-delayed license to the Harmony Foundation on Thursday to grow cannabis in Secaucus. The nonprofit's application had been pending since 2011. The facility will be housed...

David Tunno's recent mailer smacks of abuse. It abuses my patience! He calls himself and his coterie of cronies "Save Our County," which is suggestive — it implies the county will sink into ruin without a marijuana ban. He talks about the suppression of the people's voice — YES or NO, yeah or...

Gov. Charlie Baker will sign into law a tax hike on retail marijuana sales and new restrictions on marketing and packaging of pot products Friday. The move comes after the Legislature last week reached a deal to overhaul the 2016 ballot law legalizing pot in Massachusetts. The bill...

A job fair for one of Pennsylvania's first medical marijuana processing plants has drawn hundreds of potential applicants. Videos posted on social media Thursday show hundreds of people in line hoping to land a job at PurePenn's future facility in McKeesport, a city about 12 miles southeast...

The Sandwich Board of Selectmen said "no" Thursday night, July 27, to a medical marijuana dispensary that was seeking to open a business in a Sandwich medical office park off Route 130. The 3-2 vote came after an hour-long public hearing during which members of the public asked pointed...

There's a new group in town that's serious about bringing retail pot shops to Colorado Springs. Citizens for Safer Neighborhoods describes itself as "a group of dedicated Colorado Springs business professionals committed to enhancing safety and the economic vitality of Colorado Springs through...