marijuana

The retail marijuana market is coming above ground. Four states — Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington — regulate and tax commercial cannabis production and retail sales. In two of these states, Colorado and Washington, marijuana sales have yielded approximately $350 million in new tax...

In recent polls, support for Proposition 64, California's marijuana legalization initiative, ranges from 51 percent to 58 percent, while opposition ranges from 30 percent to 40 percent. The latter group includes not only diehard prohibitionists but also at least some voters who oppose the war on...

Among likely voters in Massachusetts, support for marijuana legalization is at 61 percent, the latest survey from Western New England University Polling Institute says. Thirty-four percent said they opposed Question 4, which would legalize marijuana for recreational and commercial use by...

When Florida voters head to the polls next week, they will be asked to help decide the future of medical marijuana in our state. As Election Day approaches, several clients and viewers have approached me with a thought provoking question: Could expanding the definition of legal medicinal...

In 2012, backers of Colorado's landmark constitutional amendment legalizing recreational marijuana pressed their case by touting the financial benefits to the state's schools. Four years later, backers of a record number of school tax measures on this year's ballot are finding the need to...

With less than a week left before California voters decide if recreational marijuana will be legal to use, Campbell is among cities adopting urgency ordinances regulating non-medical marijuana uses before the Nov. 8 election. The city council unanimously voted to adopt an urgency ordinance at...

Sierra Vista - If examples from Washington and Colorado are any indication, should Arizona voters pass Prop 205 this November and legalize recreational marijuana use for adults, there should be little to no federal interference with state law, even in areas with a high number of federal law...

While Proposition 64 does allow local governments to decide where marijuana stores could open up, some feel like cities are trying to thwart the will of voters. Regarding Proposition 64, the legalization of recreational marijuana use: I hope common sense prevails against greedy businessmen...

Two advocates who previously worked to legalize medical marijuana in Maine together debated the hot topic of recreational marijuana legalization initiative Question 1, taking questions from a raucous audience that ranged from children to medical marijuana caregivers. The debate was held at...

The legalization of recreational and/or medicinal marijuana is on the ballot Tuesday in California, Nevada, Arizona, Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota, Florida, Massachusetts and Maine. If you live in one of those states, I strongly encourage you to vote in support of legalization. And, it is...

The Arkansas Supreme Court denied a rehearing for Issue 7 on Thursday (Nov. 3). In their petition, Arkansans for Compassionate Care argues the Supreme Court's strict interpretation of a law the legislature passed in 2013 that requires measure sponsors to file certain information regarding paid...

The Arkansas Supreme Court denied a rehearing for Issue 7 on Thursday (Nov. 3). In their petition, Arkansans for Compassionate Care argues the Supreme Court's strict interpretation of a law the legislature passed in 2013 that requires measure sponsors to file certain information regarding paid...

Starting next week, more New Yorkers will be able to score weed without looking over their shoulders. On Monday, the Hunts Point PharmaCannis medical marijuana dispensary opens to the public, the second such outlet in the city and the first in The Bronx - and Margaret Craighead is set to be...

Starting next week, more New Yorkers will be able to score weed without looking over their shoulders. On Monday, the Hunts Point PharmaCannis medical marijuana dispensary opens to the public, the second such outlet in the city and the first in The Bronx - and Margaret Craighead is set to be...

Remember that scene in Pulp Fiction when Vince (John Travolta) riffs on the Catch 22 of smoking hash in Amsterdam, explaining to his partner-in-crime Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) that "yeah, it's legal, but it ain't a hundred percent legal." Well, with California's Prop. 64 poised to pass on...

Pusha T is co-signing California's Proposition 64 that will legalize recreational use of marijuana in the state.The rapper known as "Push-A-Ton" may have to change his name to "Push-A-Vote" pretty soon. "What the urgency ordinances do is create a clear line of what's allowed and what's not - so...

Fall River - Four companies have the green light from the city to pursue marijuana dispensary licenses. One of those companies has land and the approval of the state to build a facility to grow and process marijuana for medicine. Medical marijuana is legal in Massachusetts. Companies are...

San Francisco - Nothing is simple in the medical marijuana business, even "a simple breach of contract claim" in which a federal magistrate refused to grant summary judgment this week to a woman who wants to back out of buying two companies because they are illegal under federal law. Sara...

San Francisco - Nothing is simple in the medical marijuana business, even "a simple breach of contract claim" in which a federal magistrate refused to grant summary judgment this week to a woman who wants to back out of buying two companies because they are illegal under federal law. Sara...

The Borough Marijuana Task Force met Tuesday night and decided to permit commercial marijuana growth in certain residential districts. The motion was to allow residential cultivation permits with a conditional use permit in RR, RR1 and RR2, which are rural areas, and prohibit it in R1, R2, and...