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Lancaster - A more than two hour debate regarding medical marijuana-related businesses operating within the city limits brought out emotional testimony on both sides of the issue Monday. City Council hosted a public hearing Monday night on a local ordinance to ban marijuana businesses from...

Lancaster - A more than two hour debate regarding medical marijuana-related businesses operating within the city limits brought out emotional testimony on both sides of the issue Monday. City Council hosted a public hearing Monday night on a local ordinance to ban marijuana businesses from...

St. Clairsville - The Belmont County Board of Health deferred action Monday on a county policy that prohibits employees' use of medical marijuana. Robert Sproul, deputy health commissioner, circulated a memorandum concerning the Belmont County Board of Commissioners' ban on employees being...

St. Clairsville - The Belmont County Board of Health deferred action Monday on a county policy that prohibits employees' use of medical marijuana. Robert Sproul, deputy health commissioner, circulated a memorandum concerning the Belmont County Board of Commissioners' ban on employees being...

Right after the 4th of July, I spent a week in Denver where marijuana is legal. The case that brought me to Denver involved real estate in an old working class neighborhood that population pressure is causing to be "gentrified." What I found most compelling is that legalized pot is the reason...

A statewide poll of likely voters shows 50 percent support the November ballot question legalizing marijuana in Massachusetts. Question 4 would allow adults 21 years and older to possess, cultivate and use marijuana. The question also sets up a regulatory structure under a new Cannabis...

In the two decades since California became the first state to approve a medical marijuana program, similar laws have spread across the country like, well, a weed. People with certain medical conditions - ranging from chronic pain to glaucoma to multiple sclerosis - now can use marijuana in 25...

In the two decades since California became the first state to approve a medical marijuana program, similar laws have spread across the country like, well, a weed. People with certain medical conditions - ranging from chronic pain to glaucoma to multiple sclerosis - now can use marijuana in 25...

In 2014, legal sale of recreational marijuana began in Colorado and Washington state. Oregon and Alaska are creating similar regulatory regimes. This November, at least five more states will vote on legal pot. This group includes a potential game changer: California, America's biggest state by...

The federal government plans to introduce legislation in 2017 to legalize marijuana, but some users aren't waiting that long before lighting up in public. Change is already in the air, so to speak. As part of a week-long series looking at the potential impacts of legalization, the Calgary...

Montpelier, Vt. - Vermont's Joint Justice Oversight Committee sat through testimony about factors playing into the state's recreational marijuana legalization efforts. Watch story here. "This issue is not going to go away," said Sen. Dick Sears. "The biggest concern, I think, is that it's...

Wyoming NORML and Wyoming Purple Cross, medical marijuana advocate groups in the state, are hosting a public meeting to discuss the Peggy A. Kelly Wyoming Cannabis Act. Right now, the groups are working to get enough signatures to put the issue on the 2017 ballot. This would allow voters to...

Wyoming NORML and Wyoming Purple Cross, medical marijuana advocate groups in the state, are hosting a public meeting to discuss the Peggy A. Kelly Wyoming Cannabis Act. Right now, the groups are working to get enough signatures to put the issue on the 2017 ballot. This would allow voters to...

Wyoming NORML and Wyoming Purple Cross, medical marijuana advocate groups in the state, are hosting a public meeting to discuss the Peggy A. Kelly Wyoming Cannabis Act. Right now, the groups are working to get enough signatures to put the issue on the 2017 ballot. This would allow voters to...

If Dr. Larry Bedard has his way, Marin General Hospital would become the first acute-care medical center in California to allow patients to openly consume medical marijuana in the hospital. Patients wouldn't be allowed to smoke it, since smoking is prohibited. But Bedard, a retired emergency...

Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday said ballot initiatives seeking to legalize medical marijuana in Arkansas do not lead to good medical practice and are not in the best interest of patients. The two proposed ballot measures - the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment and Arkansas Medical Cannabis...

Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday said ballot initiatives seeking to legalize medical marijuana in Arkansas do not lead to good medical practice and are not in the best interest of patients. The two proposed ballot measures - the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment and Arkansas Medical Cannabis...

Downtown Bellingham is getting its first pot shop. Satori, located at 100 East Maple St. is set to open later this month. "You won't see any other marijuana stores downtown," owner Quinn Sharpe said. The store is in one of the few spots downtown that is zoned correctly, and is also far...

One of the next frontiers in the political battles for marijuana smokers is the need to provide venues where marijuana smokers can socialize with other marijuana smokers in a marijuana-friendly lounge. Under current laws in Washington, Colorado, Oregon, and the District of Columbia, it is...

Although "the munchies" is a side effect regularly associated with smoking pot, a new study claims that marijuana use may actually contribute to lower body fat, despite previous claims of appetite increase and weight gain. Researchers at the University of Miami recently studied the link...