marijuana

Medical marijuana will be sold in Ohio next year -- but don't count on picking up a prescription at your neighborhood dispensary. Ohio's law allows cities, villages and townships to restrict the number of marijuana businesses that can operate within their limits or ban them altogether. And...

The Trump administration's attack on legal marijuana, already stymied by large states determined not to roll back the clock, is increasingly confronting an even more politically potent adversary: military veterans. Frustrated by federal laws restricting their access to a drug many already...

West Wendover is officially ready for a medical marijuana dispensary – now all the city has to do is wait for interested businesses to apply. The City Council voted 4-to-1 on Tuesday in favor of an ordinance allowing a marijuana dispensary to open within its borders, the city's clerk...

Deliveries of medical cannabis will soon be allowed in Oxnard after action from the City Council to relax one area of its marijuana ordinance. By a unanimous vote, the council on Tuesday approved medical marijuana deliveries and requested more information on other commercial aspects of...

With each passing day, we are bombarded by headlines confirming that there is an opioid epidemic in America. These addiction problems are proving pervasive in every age group, ethnic background, and socioeconomic strata. In fact, the opioid epidemic is being affirmed as the worst epidemic in...

Question: I have a cat who suffers from inflammatory bowel disease and a dog whose arthritis has gotten really bad now that he's 13. I asked my veterinarian about using medical marijuana for them, and he actually laughed at me. If it's legal for humans why wouldn't it be OK for pets? Answer...

Nearly five years after voters made marijuana legal for medical purposes, the Cape and Islands are still without a single dispensary, which has forced many patients to turn to the black market or legally questionable delivery services to purchase what they say is life-improving medicine...

A medical marijuana nursery is asking a Tallahassee judge to allow it to step in on a case over the state's new law governing the drug. Canadian-based DFMMJ Investments, which inked a deal to take over operations of Chestnut Hill Tree Farm, filed a "motion to intervene" earlier this week with...

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister has convinced his fellow premiers to push Ottawa for clarity on marijuana legalization – and to ask for an extension if the federal government doesn't answer their questions. At the premiers' annual summer meeting Wednesday in Edmonton, Pallister pushed for an...

Few plants have created as much controversy as cannabis. Known as marijuana, pot, and a myriad of other nicknames, the federal government just calls it illegal. Marijuana is considered a schedule I drug, which by definition means it has potential for abuse and no accepted medical uses...

The City Council last week signed off on an ordinance which regulates the marijuana cultivation authorized by passage of Prop. 64 by California voters last November. The measure legalizing recreational marijuana use by adults includes provisions which allow the cultivation of up to six...

The flights were high and loaded with marijuana. Now a federal grand jury in New Haven has indicted Donald Burns, 59, of Milford, the pilot and two alleged distributors Robert Capelli, 31, and Scott Bodnar, 38, of Ansonia with trafficking at least 2,200 pounds of marijuana by airplane. Shortly...

As more U.S. states legalize marijuana use, 45% of Americans say they have tried marijuana at least once, a new high in Gallup's trend since 1969. These results are from Gallup's July 5-9 poll on Americans' consumption habits. When Gallup first asked this question in 1969, only 4% said...

With Nevada suffering a shortage of legalized marijuana, California's state pot czar said Wednesday that efforts are being made in her state to make sure sufficient licenses go to farmers, testers and distributors to supply retailers. Providing temporary, four-month licenses to support some...

Someday soon, more businesses could grow marijuana in the city of Sacramento than there are Starbucks and McDonald's restaurants combined. More than 100 businesses are seeking special permits from the city to run indoor marijuana growing operations. From North Sacramento to South Land Park...

These days, cannabis is Colorado's cash crop. (Ciao, corn!) In the three-and-a-half years since the state began allowing adults to purchase marijuana for recreational use, cannabis has contributed more than half a billion dollars in tax revenue to both state and local coffers. That's...

At a public hearing prior to the July 19 Damariscotta Board of Selectmen meeting, about 20 residents had a lot to say about marijuana. Most of it was positive. In November, Damariscotta voted to approve the state's proposed marijuana legalization. As the board considered possible restrictions...

While an increasing number of states have legalized medical and recreational marijuana, not all marijuana-related businesses are successful. When marijuana dispensaries and marijuana users file for bankruptcy, they may encounter a difficult situation: How do they to claim marijuana as an asset...

When Bill Meeks retired in 2008, he'd put in more than 30 years as a police officer and he was a mental and a physical wreck. "My doctor handed me a piece of paper and said, 'You're retired. Here's a prescription for opioids and you need to go somewhere warm and dry,'" Meeks said. Meeks...

The debate to bring a medical marijuana facility to Grand Traverse County continues. On Tuesday, a special meeting was held in Kingsley where the Executive Director of the National Patients Rights Association Robin Schneider gave a presentation on the laws revolving around medical marijuana...