marijuana

Although state-wide marijuana legalization initiatives like the ones in California, Massachusetts, Florida and elsewhere got most of the attention, several Colorado communities voted on marijuana questions as well. And in two cases the initiatives had national implications. In Denver, it...

Lansing - A proposed residential medical marijuana ordinance needs further review and could be changed several times, based how City Council's Committee on Public Safety meeting went Thursday afternoon at City Hall. Representatives from the city, Lansing Board of Water & Light, the medical...

Palm Springs, Calif. - Just like a puff of smoke, some medical marijuana users will be paying a little less out of pocket. Proposition 64 included a tax for recreational marijuana when it becomes available in 2018. At the same time, it's giving an early tax break to people with county-issued...

West Springfield, Mass. — We are less than a month away until it becomes legal to possess, smoke and grow marijuana in Massachusetts. State lawmakers have different ideas on how to spend the marijuana money, but they all agree the tax rate could go higher. Starting on December 15th, adults...

Ojai will become the first city in the county to license the delivery and pickup of medical marijuana. At its meeting Tuesday, the Ojai City Council passed an emergency ordinance to allow delivery or pickup by appointment of medical marijuana from a nonretail location within the city...

MedMen likens itself, as many cannabis companies do, to an early tech startup. Its West Hollywood dispensary looks a bit like an Apple store, with samples of product in polished glass cases and information about each on iPads. In a grow facility in Sun Valley, north of Los Angeles, marijuana...

The mayor of Whitewood has raised concerns about practices at a marijuana dispensary that had long operated in the town, and called on the federal government to remove the grey areas that exist around the sale of the drug for medical purposes. Martin Medical Services, owned by Jerry Martin...

Holbrook selectmen gave a green light for MassMedicum to add a dispensary to the company's already approved medical marijuana cultivation facility for the Mear Road industrial park, even though doubts lingered about whether a contract with MassMedicum not to sell recreational marijuana on the...

Los Angeles — Some California medical marijuana users are getting a tax break. State officials announced Thursday that certain purchases of medical cannabis are now exempt from sales taxes, under the law approved by voters this month that legalized recreational pot in California. Under the...

Bradenton - Bradenton isn't feeling the blues over medical marijuana, but city officials did manage to combine the two subjects in separate discussions on Wednesday. Officials donned dark sunglasses for one of the items, but it wasn't for medical marijuana. The sunglasses went on in support...

Estero, FL - Even though Lee County voters joined voters across Florida in passing Amendment 2 and making medical marijuana legal, the Estero Council voted to keep medical marijuana dispensaries out of the village for at least a year. The council unanimously approved the decision, and residents...

Corpus Christi - State lawmakers are introducing a bill that would make the possession of an ounce or less of marijuana more like paying a traffic ticket. Nueces County Sheriff Jim Kaelin said the jail often houses people who have been charged with minor possession of marijuana and are unable...

Boston - With 28 days until it becomes legal to grow marijuana in Massachusetts, some in the medical marijuana industry are growing 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...

Canadian medical marijuana producers are in the spotlight, thanks to high share prices and a more than $1 billion valuation for Ontario-based Canopy Growth Corp. So should Canadians consider the country's booming marijuana sector as an investment opportunity? Not necessarily, say investment...

The Camarillo City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved an emergency interim ordinance in response to the passage of Proposition 64, which legalizes recreational marijuana in California. Under the city's emergency interim ordinance, a 45-day moratorium is in place on non-medical...

In the wake of California voters legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, the Hemet City Council voted Tuesday, Nov. 15, to establish a 45-day moratorium on non-medical marijuana facilities and private marijuana cultivation in the city, except for the private, indoor cultivation of up to...

California voters approved Proposition 64, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, by a vote of 56% to 44%. Voters in Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada also approved legalization measures. Medical cannabis had a big night, too. Voters approved or expanded medical cannabis laws in...

Rachel O'Bryan was campaign manager for Protect Denver's Atmosphere, which opposed Initiative 300, the local ballot measure that will allow specially licensed businesses in that city to create consumption areas for customers who bring their own cannabis. In a recent interview with Westword...

The good news is medical marijuana passed easily in Arkansas on Election Day. Issue 6, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment, writes into the state Constitution a right to medical cannabis and a basic regulatory structure under which it will be administered to Arkansas patients. The amendment...

A Brampton councillor wants the city to clamp down on licensed marijuana grow operations in residential neighbourhoods. "Even though there are legal marijuana grow operations happening in residential communities, the municipality has no legislative authority to inspect them for safety and...