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No medical marijuana for Missouri this year, polling looks good for the Florida initiative and tense for competing Arkansas initiatives, Colorado moves toward adding PTSD as a qualifying condition, and more. Arkansas Last Thursday, the state's highest court threw out a challenge to a...

Senator Leising, I wanted you to know that you have a right to your opinion on medical marijuana. You don't have a right to confuse your constituents on industrial hemp. The references you utilized in your article ("Legalize marijuana? Not so fast," Sept. 13 issue) make it appear that all...

Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, who is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, said Thursday it's "time for the state legislature to step up" and pass a law allowing medical marijuana. Kander came out in support of medical marijuana in a statement through the secretary of...

Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, who is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, said Thursday it's "time for the state legislature to step up" and pass a law allowing medical marijuana. Kander came out in support of medical marijuana in a statement through the secretary of...

Vermilion - Vermilion city council members seemed pretty blunt about temporarily outlawing medical marijuana in their hometown. During a recent meeting, elected officials voted to ban those cultivating, processing, selling and dispensing the substance inside Vermilion's boundaries for a...

Vermilion - Vermilion city council members seemed pretty blunt about temporarily outlawing medical marijuana in their hometown. During a recent meeting, elected officials voted to ban those cultivating, processing, selling and dispensing the substance inside Vermilion's boundaries for a...

The Grant County Court voted today to pass Amended Ordinance 2015-01, which will allow patients to purchase medical marijuana at dispensaries in Grant County. The ordinance was passed as an emergency to take effect immediately. "In the interest of those who need medical marijuana, legal...

The Grant County Court voted today to pass Amended Ordinance 2015-01, which will allow patients to purchase medical marijuana at dispensaries in Grant County. The ordinance was passed as an emergency to take effect immediately. "In the interest of those who need medical marijuana, legal...

Oregon's foray into legalizing recreational marijuana has been a learning experience for everyone involved, not least for the state's many growers of medical marijuana, who had the luxury of operating with little oversight for years under Oregon's 18-year-old medical marijuana law. Those days...

Dover - Kent County will get a medical marijuana dispensary soon, but the location remains undisclosed. State officials said last week a contract had been awarded to Columbia Care for two facilities to open in the second half of 2017. One will be in Kent County. The dispensary will be the...

Dover - Kent County will get a medical marijuana dispensary soon, but the location remains undisclosed. State officials said last week a contract had been awarded to Columbia Care for two facilities to open in the second half of 2017. One will be in Kent County. The dispensary will be the...

Minooka — Minooka trustees amended Tuesday the village's Cannabis Control Act, reducing the seriousness of possession of 10 grams or less. Minooka is following suit with the law Gov. Bruce Rauner signed, effective July 29, 2016, making possession of not more than 10 grams a civil law violation...

A marijuana advocacy organization is claiming Humboldt County has violated its own commercial medical marijuana regulations and a recent legal agreement by allowing existing cultivators to apply for business permits until the end of the year. The Humboldt-Mendocino Marijuana Advocacy Project...

Phoenix - Supporters and opponents of recreational marijuana launched their first wave of TV ads this week in the fight over Proposition 205, and there's already at least one claim that's a puff of smoke. A nearly $1 million ad by the No on 205 campaign begins by referencing the first state to...

Joseph Bower has seen a lot of changes in Trinity County. We're sitting in his pickup truck a few miles from his house in central Trinity. About 10 years ago, nothing but forest surrounded this winding dirt road. Now it's lined with marijuana farms. Cannabis plants pop out everywhere. The...

On November 8, Nevadans will decide whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use. (The drug has been legal for medicinal purposes since 2000, though the first regulated dispensaries didn't open here until last year.) Debate continues over the merit of the recreational initiative -...

Pittsfield - Siding with several neighborhood home and business owners, the Zoning Board of Appeals Wednesday night denied a special permit for a medical marijuana dispensary at a defunct fast food restaurant on East Street. The ZBA unanimously rejected plans by Happy Valley Compassion Center...

Pittsfield - Siding with several neighborhood home and business owners, the Zoning Board of Appeals Wednesday night denied a special permit for a medical marijuana dispensary at a defunct fast food restaurant on East Street. The ZBA unanimously rejected plans by Happy Valley Compassion Center...

Peterborough's marijuana store, Cannabis Culture, reopened Tuesday morning, with city police announcing that the opening has their attention. The shop was closed Sept. 15, days after it opened, when city police raided it and removed its products. Two people, store owner Richard Standen and...

Hartford, Conn. — One of the new laws taking place in Connecticut on October 1 is a change to the state's medical marijuana program, and part of that change affects minors. Children will be allowed to use medical marijuana in Connecticut when the new law, recently passed by the legislature...