marijuana

A judge on Monday ruled that two brothers accused of conspiring to distribute high-grade marijuana in the Quad-Cities will remain in federal custody pending trial. Magistrate Judge Stephen B. Jackson Jr. granted prosecutors' request for detention for Emanuel Moore Jr. and Lamaar Moore, citing...

Next week, the Task Force on Crime and Public Safety led by President Trump is expected to release a report linking cannabis in general to violent crimes. Activists fear that the report is going to snowball into tougher sentences on possession, growing and selling marijuana and a general medical...

When customers enter the Theory Wellness dispensary they are given a menu. It lists various strains and forms of medical cannabis — pre-rolled joints, chews, salve, flower, capsules, extract, cartridges, sap and tinctures. On the menu are strains like Star-Flight Guava — may help with...

West Volusia will likely get its first medical marijuana dispensary before the end of the year. Surterra Wellness, which has stores in Tallahassee and Tampa, is planning to open in Deltona Plaza, 1200 Deltona Blvd., in a suite right next to the Good Eats Diner. It will become Volusia County's...

The Nevada County Board of Supervisors is expected to appoint a new member to its citizens' marijuana board this Tuesday, a panelist who would then attend his first cannabis meeting that afternoon. Supervisors are scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. at the Eric Rood Administrative Center, 950 Maidu...

I support marijuana legalization, but I wish pot smokers would stop stinking up the sidewalks. I'm not alone. In places where using marijuana no longer carries the threat of a jail sentence, the pungent odor of ganja is increasingly infiltrating daily life -- and annoying nonsmokers. "It used...

An employee of the Lawton jail has been arrested after police say they found marijuana in a diaper she carried into the jail. The Lawton Constitution reports (The Lawton Constitution ) that the female employee of the Lawton Correctional Facility was arrested Saturday after other employees...

The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that a company acted improperly when it fired medical marijuana patient Cristina Barbuto after she tested positive for pot. The Colorado Supreme Court reached the opposite conclusion in an analogous 2015 case, determining that DISH had the right to...

For this year's iteration of Colorado's campaign to discourage underage marijuana use, the state teamed up with TEDxMileHigh and media company Cactus to take teens on immersive field trips with movers and shakers across Denver. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment''s...

It's not just "stoners" and "burnouts" backing medical and recreational marijuana in South Dakota. As the campaign to get two marijuana-related measures on the ballot in 2018 continues, Mitchell's James McNaughton sees support for cannabis strengthening statewide. But after this week's...

Ohio regulators say they'll need another $5.6 million this year for a medical marijuana tracking database, a toll-free help line and anticipated legal costs responding to lawsuits and complaints challenging the state's licensing process. The Ohio Department of Commerce and State Board of...

Maine lawmakers are coalescing around a rough plan for the state's new recreational marijuana industry after months of wonky hearings and with weeks more to go before a final proposal that could come by summer's end. Voters backed legalization by a slim margin in the 2016 election, approving...

A new Department of Justice report on violent crime and marijuana will pave the way for the Trump administration to crack down on the drug, campaigners and lawmakers say. The Trump administration's Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is to...

Kevin Palmer spins, throws and flips his arrow-shaped sign off of Silverdale Way to advertise Fillabong, a recreational marijuana store a block away from the Kitsap Mall. "My job is not going to evaporate but I'm pretty sure it's going to have an impact of sorts," Palmer said as he took a...

You don't have to be Nostradamus to successfully predict that more states will legalize marijuana -- whether for medicinal use only or for recreational use. A bandwagon effect seems quite likely, considering 29 states plus the District of Columbia have already legalized medical marijuana. Nine...

Local advocates for the legalization of recreational marijuana use in Michigan plan to spread awareness here one outreach event at a time. Many of them gathered for a block party Saturday sponsored by multiple businesses in Belle Plaza on the southern part of the city. It served a dual...

Five years after Washington voters legalized recreational marijuana, uncertainty continues in cities and counties across the state over how to regulate pot businesses – or whether to allow them at all. For example, Yakima County voters will determine in November whether a ban on such...

Lawmakers overhauled the rules for recreational marijuana this week, but their changes are raising concerns about legal challenges and whether communities will get enough tax revenue to cover the cost of regulating the new pot industry. The legislation, which is awaiting Gov. Charlie Baker's...

Every few days, Chad Crandall and Emily Isler take a break from tending to the chickens, pigs and crops and head to the kitchen to cook up their weekly supply of marijuana-infused maple sugar candies. The soft-spoken caregivers sell their sweet little confections, which are made from their...

It's about a mile along Division Street from Dr. Matt Layton's office on the Washington State University medical campus in Spokane to the nearest recreational marijuana store. As a private adult under Washington law, Layton could walk into that store, buy a gram of marijuana and use it...