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While more than a half the U.S. population now lives in states that have legalized marijuana for either medical or recreational use, the drug remains banned at the federal level. "Responsible cannabis businesses are contributing to the economy and to their communities, and they're here to...

Ottawa — The Trudeau government is getting closer to having a new policy on medicinal marijuana for our veterans, who take the drug to treat conditions like PTSD. The veterans affairs department has been reviewing the issue of medical pot after concerns were raised earlier this year that the...

Piles of cash. It's often one of the biggest challenges for a marijuana company. By law, customers can't use credit cards to buy marijuana, and banks won't open accounts for cannabusinesses because they are federally illegal. For the most part, customers pay with cash, stores compensate...

Salem, Ore. - Some 30 counties and cities in Oregon approved some type of marijuana businesses in last week's election, and officials in those communities now must establish rules for every step in the production and supply chain. When voters legalized recreational marijuana statewide two...

Less than a month after voters rejected allowing marijuana for recreational use, there's a new - and scaled back - proposal emerging for the 2018 ballot. The initiative crafted by operators of a medical marijuana dispensary would expand the list of conditions for which a doctor could...

Small-scale commercial marijuana gardens would be permitted in Sonoma County's rural residential areas under a medical cannabis zoning ordinance approved by the county Planning Commission on Thursday night. The vote followed a renewed dispute between growers and residents who don't want the...

Cambridge and Braintree, Mass. - One ride on Boston's Red Line subway is enough to span the spectrum of Massachusetts's mixed feelings about legalizing recreational marijuana. In Boston's Harvard Square, where the smell of pot in places wafts through the streets, Cambridge residents are...

Little Rock, ARK. - Arkansas lawmakers are considering delaying the launch of the first medical marijuana program in the Bible Belt as well as an effort to impose additional taxes on the drug as they work on legislation implementing a medical pot measure voters approved this month. The ideas...

More than half the states in the nation and Washington DC have legalized medical marijuana. While people managing pain or living with extremely painful forms of cancer in those states are grateful, some researchers and addiction treatment providers are arguing that just changing the drug's...

The Montana Legislature will have up to 10 bills relating to marijuana to debate when it opens on January 2. The bills range from a blanket negation of the medical marijuana law to reforms that would return access to medical marijuana patients who are still cut off despite the Nov. 8 passing...

As news spreads that President-elect Donald Trump has picked Senator Jeff Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, for the role of attorney general of the United States, the state-legal cannabis industry is worried about Sessions' anti-marijuana rhetoric. During the Senate's Caucus on...

Boston - With 28 days until it becomes legal to grow marijuana in Massachusetts, some in the medical marijuana industry are concerned about the slow launch of a new industry without a regulatory scheme in place. Nicholas Vita, chief executive officer of Columbia Care, which holds three...

Even after Question 2's passage last week, casinos will likely avoid dealing with the marijuana industry and continue to prohibit guests from using pot on their properties, if the discussions of Nevada's gaming regulators today are any indication. Both the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Gaming...

Rancho Mirage reaffirmed its ban on medical marijuana dispensaries Thursday and expanded its prohibition to include recreational pot and all forms of pot manufacturing, processing and testing within city limits. Council also tightened the reins on cultivation. While Proposition 64 allows for...

Apache Junction, AZ - Access to medical marijuana in Arizona would be eased under a proposed ballot initiative filed on Thursday. The ballot proposal would lower the yearly cost of a medical marijuana patient card from $150 to $10 and expand the conditions that would qualify a patient for a...

The recent election yielded massive marijuana reform across the country as four states voted to legalize recreational marijuana and four legalized medical marijuana. Alongside the concurrent election of Mr. Trump, this means a lot of change for marijuana reform movements and the industry, almost...

Neill Franklin, former undercover narcotics cop in Baltimore, was at the PAL in Wilmington, Del. last night making a case for legal marijuana. "Marijuana is what gets us [the police] into your pockets, into your cars and into everything else," Franklin told the group. Delaware decriminalized...

Ngaio Bealum is finally breathing easy. During a recent lunch hour at midtown's Hook & Ladder, exactly one week after Proposition 64 was passed by California voters, Sacramento's leading cannabis celebrity reached into the pocket of his sports coat, pulled out a small baggie filled with Red...

The Elko Daily Free Press is counting down the days until marijuana is legal in Nevada by answering questions concerning the law. Q: How much is an ounce of marijuana? A: An ounce of marijuana is 28.35 grams, enough to roll dozens of "joints." On Jan. 1, an ounce of marijuana is legal...

California voters legalized recreational marijuana for adults last week, but local law enforcement says there is still a long list of crimes related to the drug. Proposition 64 - which makes it legal for adults 21 and older to possess up to one ounce of marijuana, 8 grams of concentrated...