marijuana

Salisbury - Selectmen will wait to learn their options before voting whether to issue letters of non-opposition to any or all of the three companies wanting to site medical marijuana dispensaries in town. At their meeting Monday night, selectmen tasked Town Manager Neil Harrington with...

When DJ Risk approached his grandparents about creating a new division within Paul Risk Construction, he wrestled with how to share his vision. Paul Risk had grown a fledgling family business from three to 70 employees and carefully cultivated a reputation as a full-service design-and-build...

Boston - The state's top elections official says procedural issues could slightly delay the state's new marijuana law. The voter-approved measure which legalizes recreational marijuana is scheduled to take effect on Dec. 15. But Secretary of State William Galvin says the Governor's Council is...

Salem, N.H. - Fireworks, tax-free liquors and big-ticket items — New Hampshire residents are used to seeing folks come north looking to take advantage of the Granite State's looser regulations. That phenomenon may get flipped on its head Dec. 15, when the possession, use and growing of...

A new marijuana shop - selling products like Mary's Triple Strength Sativa Bunnies and Chronic Kitchen Gummy Stars - has opened in downtown St. John's. CannaLeaf St. John's was operating Monday at 448 Water Street, and word had travelled among customers. One customer, who called the shop a...

Pittsburgh is changing its zoning regulations to accommodate medical marijuana distributors and producers. City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved legislation that would require distributors to operate only in commercial zones and production facilities only in areas zoned as industrial...

St. Augustine, Fla. — Priscilla de la Cruz sits on an armchair in Isabela's Bar Cuba where she is helping open the shop for a friend. She wears a yellow sweatshirt decorated with a lion made out of marijuana. Her hair short from the chemotherapy. She has secondary stage-four lung cancer and...

Boston - Massachusetts' top elections official says procedural issues could slightly delay the state's new marijuana law. The voter-approved measure which legalizes recreational marijuana is scheduled to take effect on Dec. 15. But Secretary of State William Galvin says the Governor's Council...

Castries, St Lucia, — The St Lucia government says it is planning a series of town hall meetings to discuss the decriminalisation of marijuana. National Security Minister Hermangild Francis said it is important for the discussion to take place, and to explore the properties and use of hemp...

In less than three weeks, New England will enter uncharted waters - more specifically, uncharted waters for the East Coast of the United States. Amid President-elect Donald Trump's pick of marijuana legalization opponent Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Massachusetts will become the first...

Inland city leaders are starting to discuss how to respond to California voters' Nov. 8 approval of recreational marijuana. But wait, some residents may say, don't most cities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties already ban growing and selling pot? They do, but many of those bans...

Florida's bong ban, as toothless as critics say it may be, now is preempted by the recently approved constitutional amendment on medical marijuana. That's according to Ben Pollara, campaign manager of United for Care. The group has fought for the ballot initiative, which first failed in 2014...

Juneau's first retail marijuana shop opened on schedule Friday - and promptly sold out of product. Rainforest Farms opened to the general public at noon, and by the time the doors opened, a line of almost 100 interested customers had stretched from the Second Street store to North Franklin...

Preparations are underway for Grant County's first medical marijuana dispensary. Owners Haley Olson and Cindy Kidd said Rocky Mtn. Dispensary will focus on Cannabidiol (CBD) oils, topicals and edibles for humans and animals alike, and they hope to open the family-owned business as early as Jan...

A task force of experts studying how the federal government should legalize recreational pot will make its recommendations Wednesday, but the public will have to wait to find out what's in the highly-anticipated report. It will be released publicly "at a later date," according to a...

South Kingstown, R.I. - A Superior Court judge has ruled that the South Kingstown Zoning Board used "tortured reasoning" in finding that a medical marijuana grow operation is not allowed in downtown Wakefield. Judge Bennett Gallo ruled that the board was wrong to conclude that Jordan...

More than a decade after his death, Hunter S. Thompson is still smokin'. The "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" author, who took his own life in 2005 at age 67, will be memorialized with his own brand of marijuana, his widow told the Aspen Times this week. Anita Thompson, who earlier this...

Marijuana activists received an unexpectedly warm reception Monday from Sen. Jeff Sessions' staff after announcing a "#smokesessions" protest would happen at "high noon" in the office of the staunchly anti-marijuana Alabama Republican selected by President-elect Donald Trump to be attorney...

In the recent US presidential and congressional elections, voters across the country were asked not only to choose the next president and lawmakers in both Congress and state legislatures but also to decide on more than 150 local issues. Among them, the referenda in the state of California...

Denver - Weed is winning in the polls, with a solid majority of Americans saying marijuana should be legal. But does that mean the federal government will let dozens of state pot experiments play out? Not by a long shot. The government still has many means to slow or stop the marijuana train...