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Elko — Law officials currently deal with marijuana use on a regular basis. When the drug becomes legal on Jan. 1 the path to processing cases where people are charged with being under the influence of marijuana is unclear. According to Police Chief Ben Reed, it will be difficult to prove...

Billings - Proposals to tax Montana's 12-year-old medical marijuana program could hit patients dealing with serious medical conditions, but the move is hardly without precedent. A budget proposal released by Gov. Steve Bullock this month includes a 6 percent tax on medical marijuana sales to...

Niles - Niles City Council members appear open to the idea of putting rules in place that would encourage commercial medical marijuana operations in the city. A new state medical marijuana licensing act puts rules into place to track marijuana production from seed to smoke. Members discussed...

Manatee - With patients in Florida who suffer from debilitating illnesses soon to have access to medical marijuana, one state lawmaker says a research facility should open to study the drug's effects on patients. "I think it's highly appropriate to have a research component built into...

Will Northern Nevada's drug-sniffing dogs still alert for the presence of marijuana after Jan. 1 when it becomes legal? And will they be re-trained not to detect marijuana? - Short answers: If you or your belongings are subjected to a search by a drug-sniffing dog in Northern Nevada, the dog...

Thanks to Amendment 2, a lot more seriously ill Floridians will be able to rely on medical marijuana for relief. But what forms medicinal cannabis will come in, and whether it will be lawful to smoke it, appears far from settled. That's in part because while the amendment expands the use of...

California voters did the easy part: they legalized marijuana. Proposition 64's approval was a big victory for people who consider the drug harmless and for those who hope to profit from growing and selling it. Yet, as anyone who has tried to buy marijuana since the election without a...

The Pueblo County commissioners finalized an agreement with Colorado State University-Pueblo to use marijuana excise tax to help fund impact studies that will be conducted by the school's newly formed Institute of Cannabis Research. During a work session Oct. 31, officials with CSU-Pueblo...

Hilo - Hawaii's soon-to-open medical marijuana dispensaries could have at least one place to send cannabis for testing. The state Department of Health is reviewing an application from PharmLabs Hawaii LLC, an expansion of a San Diego-based marijuana laboratory testing company called PharmLabs...

At age 18, I attended a party where police found tiny amounts of marijuana. Without funds for an attorney, I accepted "deferred probation". It has followed me my entire life. I graduated from college, law, and graduate school, yet I had to endure a hearing to ascertain my fitness to practice. It...

South Portland - In the wake of a statewide vote to legalize recreational use of marijuana, the South Portland City Council has moved to adopt a moratorium on the licensing of any retail sales. The six-month ban, backdated to be effective as of Nov. 21 if and when it is finally adopted, would...

Normal - Residents in Central Illinois now have local access to medical marijuana. "Our Normal location is open now Tuesday to Sunday," said Trent Woloveck, vice president of national finance for the Denver, Colo.-based marijuana company, The Green Solution, which owns and operates the...

When Irvin Rosenfeld runs low on his monthly allotment of federal government marijuana, the Lauderhill stock broker drives south for about an hour to Miami's health district, the only location where he can legally pick up a circular tin packed with 300 joints. It's inconvenient: The pot he...

More than half of the United States allow marijuana use of some kind after voters in eight states passed legalization laws following the 2016 presidential election. Since then, cannabis advocates in other states have been pushing even harder for marijuana reform, and some states have already...

Over the past two years a number of new marijuana-related businesses have registered in Vermont. The companies have formed in anticipation of pot legalization. Pot advocates are once again bullish about the prospects for a new law creating a regulated marijuana industry for adult...

The marijuana gold rush is in full effect, depending on what part of the country you live in. For those on the west coast, cannabis has been decriminalized and legalized for recreational use along the entire Pacific Rim. Even states along the eastern seaboard - Massachusetts and Maine - now have...

JUDY WOODRUFF: Lost amid November's election results was the large number of states that legalized the use of marijuana for either recreational or medical purposes. The results spell one of the biggest shifts in U.S. drug policy in decades, but significant questions remain. William...

Marijuana has been nearly unstoppable this year. Heading into Election Day, residents in nine states were set to vote on marijuana initiatives or amendments within their states. Five states had been looking to legalize recreational marijuana, whereas residents in four states were voting on...

The Elko Daily Free Press is counting down the days until marijuana is legal in Nevada by answering questions concerning the law. Q: What is marijuana oil and how much will be legal on Jan. 1? A: On Jan 1., people over the age of 21 will be able to have an ounce of marijuana or one-eighth...

For a few days after voters approved Amendment 2, a leafy marijuana sign adorned the sign post outside the red-brick building where the old Plantation Club used to be at 1639 Village Square Blvd. in Killearn. The sign has since been taken down. And there are no clues as to what goes on...