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Anacortes - The City Council voted 4-2 Monday to permanently ban medical marijuana cooperatives within city limits. A cooperative consists of four registered medical marijuana patients growing up to 60 plants in one residence for personal use. The ban was put in place because growing that many...

Connecticut legalized medical marijuana in 2012 and launched the program in 2014. HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT THE PROGRAM: - There are more than 14,500 patients registered to purchase medical marijuana in Connecticut. - To get a prescription, a qualifying patient is seen by one of more...

When: Nov. 25-27, Noon-7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Noon-6 p.m. Sunday Where: Henao Contemporary Center, 5601 Edgewater Drive, Orlando, FL Contact: 407.490.4207 In a post-medical marijuana Florida, you can expect the weed talk to intensify in tandem with the potency of each new strain...

Augusta - City officials plan to consider a temporary ban on recreational marijuana businesses to give themselves time to plan for the potential impacts of a recently approved statewide ballot question. While the new state law does give municipalities the right to restrict or even permanently...

Merritt city council has decided to hold a workshop in 2017 regarding the issue of retail marijuana sales given the federal government's intent to legalize and regulate the use of pot next spring. Council voted to have the worksop by a vote of 5-2 with councillors Dave Baker and Linda Brown...

Santa Ana — Orange County's 11th licensed medical marijuana dispensary, Bud and Bloom, opened at an interesting time. Less than two weeks before the Santa Ana shop welcomed its first patient, Californians voted to legalize marijuana for all adults. Though the new rules of Proposition 64 won't...

Four Ohio communities passed measures Nov. 8 to eliminate fines and jail time for possessing small amounts of marijuana, but some local officials warn that little will change. A decriminalization initiative in Newark, which passed with 53 percent of the vote, removes penalties for possessing...

If a medical marijuana growing operation opened near Lorraine Miller's home off Route 512, the 82-year-old said she'd have a few questions. Standing in her kitchen Tuesday morning with a pot of coffee gurgling behind her, Miller said she'd worry about security at the site. Would people be...

More than 18,000 people in Colorado now have full-time jobs because of the legalized marijuana industry, which has generated a $2.39 billion impact on the Rocky Mountain State's economy. Those are two of the findings in a new report that attempts to quantify the impact of the marijuana industry...

When Roger Boyd was getting Red Run Cannabis Company, his marijuana cultivation and retail business, licensed by the Kenai city government in April, he told the city Planning and Zoning commission he considered it a statement as much a business. He now considers his statement made. At Red...

Grand Rapids, MI — A doctor who told a patient's employer she used medical marijuana isn't to blame for subjecting the woman to an employee substance-abuse policy, Spectrum Heath Systems said. The marijuana reference was contained in a doctor's report authorizing medical leave for Lisa...

Healdsburg this week joined a growing list of cities looking to curb outdoor marijuana cultivation. The City Council on Monday unanimously approved an urgency ordinance forbidding the growing of non-medical marijuana outside, and only allowing indoor grows with strict health and safety...

State lawmakers in Arkansas and Montana are grappling with the results of popular votes allowing medical marijuana, and an Arizona dispensary operator eyes a Y 2018 initiative. ArizonaOn Monday, a dispensary operator announced plans for a 2018 medical marijuana expansion initiative. The owners...

Newark - Four Ohio communities passed measures on Election Day to eliminate fines and jail time for possessing small amounts of marijuana, but some local officials warn that little will change. A decriminalization initiative in Newark, which passed with 53 percent of the vote, removes penalties...

Albany - By the end of the month, New York nurse practitioners will be able to certify patients for medical-marijuana prescriptions, the state Department of Health announced Tuesday. Under the amendment, which goes into effect on Nov. 30, state-registered nurse practitioners will be able to...

Even the mayor was there. On Wednesday night, Rainforest Farms made the first legal sale of marijuana in Juneau and the first in Alaska off the state's road system. The sale took place at an invite-only opening for Juneau's first retail marijuana shop, but when more than 50 smiling people...

The Florida Constitution now gives patients with debilitating conditions the ability to use marijuana as treatment. However, the city of Bonita Springs wants time to sort out specifics before the ruling goes into effect Jan. 3. "This just gives us 12 months to formulate our ideas and how to...

A group of retired football players and medical professionals are petitioning the NFL to consider marijuana as an alternative to prescription painkillers. Despite the substance's ban in professional sports and federal status as a Schedule 1 drug on par with heroin, a retired NFL player is...

With the reality of Donald Trump as president, we can probably all agree that there are much more important things at stake than marijuana. Still, Trump's decision to appoint U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions as Attorney General has some in the industry freaking out at the possibility of a federal...

Election Day was a blowout for the cause of legal marijuana. Ballot measures legalizing medical or recreational cannabis use passed for the first time in seven states, with a defeat in Arizona the only setback for activists. But, as the experiences of other legal-marijuana states show, the...