marijuana

Voters here soon may be asked to show their fickle side. An embryonic but well-funded business venture led by high-profile Eugene attorney Mike Arnold wants Creswell residents to overturn the ban on recreational marijuana retailers that voters approved just eight months ago. The backers of...

Anne Wolff has lived in her home in Woodland for about nine years, and starting in February, she noticed some unusual activity by her new neighbors. She saw equipment, such as wire, irrigation and lights, being unloaded into the house. Soon after, she started hearing a loud fan going all day...

Vancouver Assistant Police Chief Mike Lester once used to enforce the laws against marijuana, but now his paycheck is partially funded by it. "It's a little ironic at times," Lester said. "That's just the way it is." All the money Vancouver receives from marijuana tax goes to police. That...

With marijuana legal in some form in 26 states and the District of Columbia, many of our kids have questions about pot. Rand Corporation behavioral scientist Elizabeth D’Amico offers her humble opinion on how to answer their queries. Among family and friends, I’m regarded as the Dear Abby of...

Los Angeles voters want to legalize marijuana, and they don’t seem particularly concerned that it remains illegal under federal law. In November nearly two out of three voters in the city of L.A. supported Proposition 64, a statewide initiative to let adults grow, buy and use recreational...

Should U.S. Senator John McCain get an Arizona medical-marijuana card, now that he's been diagnosed with glioblastoma? He qualifies for the right to possess and use cannabis under Arizona law, and cannabis is well-known for its effectiveness in helping patients cope with chemotherapy. His...

Fear that the federal government may crack down on legalized marijuana has forced cannabis stores to rid themselves of any data that could be used to identify customers. Under Senate Bill 863, the state now prohibits pot stores from recording, retaining or transferring any customer...

Clark County Business License officials are reminding Las Vegas-area residents and visitors that consuming marijuana in illegal in moving vehicles. Officials have learned that some persons have sought to rent tour buses and limousines so that they may consume marijuana in them, which is...

Voters can decide to ban pot shops in some communities, but that decision will be handed over to local leaders under the final marijuana bill. But some lawmakers question if this compromise is unconstitutional. Voters legalized recreational marijuana last November in a 54-46 vote. But if a...

A measure allowing veterans easier access to medical marijuana garnered bipartisan support in Congress last year and nearly became law. A vote Monday could be the end of the line this year in another attempt to pass it. The House Rules Committee will decide Monday whether to allow Rep. Earl...

Retail marijuana shops may be scarce or nonexistent on the Upper Cape next year, based on the latest marijuana legislation and the reaction from a number of elected officials in the local towns. On Monday, July 17, the Massachusetts State Senate and House of Representatives agreed on a...

When Canadian medical marijuana producer MedReleaf conducted its initial public offering in June, it became the biggest marijuana stock IPO ever in North America. The offering netted a cool $75 million, outraising other Canadian marijuana companies, including Aphria, Aurora Cannabis, and Canopy...

Cannabis may be California's largest cash crop, but dispensaries who sell the profitable plants haven't always reaped their rewards. "A while ago, when it was sort of the wild wild west of medical cannabis," said Matt Z-Berg of River City Phoenix Dispensary in Sacramento. Matt Z-Berg...

A Colorado woman faces child abuse charges after allegedly admitting to South Dakota law enforcement that she lets her two sons younger than 10 years old consume marijuana edibles. On July 7, there was a traffic checkpoint on U.S. Highway 18 in Tripp County, at which time a vehicle driven by...

After school, 8-year-old, MJ, loves taking water balloons and popping them in them in the backyard. Just feet away, her mother, Jari Sugano, grows marijuana plants. She uses the medical cannabis to treat MJ's symptoms for a severe form of epilepsy. Over the years, she's used different varieties...

San Diego’s plan to allow local cultivation, manufacturing and testing of marijuana took a key step forward with the recent unveiling of proposed regulations for those activities. Leaders of the local marijuana industry are praising San Diego for being among a small group of California cities...

Fresno City Council President Clint Olivier cleared up confusion Thursday after he tweeted earlier in the morning: "Fresno city council kills marijuana ban. Dies on 3-3 vote." Olivier failed to specify in his tweet that the only marijuana-related vote on Thursday was one asking that the city...

Police departments across the state are coming to grips with how to deal with people caught possessing marijuana after New Hampshire became the 22nd state to decriminalize the drug on Tuesday. Police departments throughout the Granite State have until Sept. 18, less than two months, to...

The Legislature sent its rewrite of the voter-approved legal marijuana bill, with a higher tax rate and less power for voters, to the governor on Thursday, 255 days after about 1.8 million voters put the law on the books. House and Senate negotiators had planned to get a bill to Gov. Charlie...

After the York City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday to decriminalize simple possession of marijuana, it appears support for the measure is only continuing to grow. Over the course of two public council meetings about the ordinance, more than a dozen people from York City, surrounding...