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A Canadian marijuana maker is set to sell cannabis in several European countries after striking a deal with Denmark's biggest tomato producer. Aurora Cannabis is partnering with Alfred Pedersen & Son to produce cannabis for medical use in Europe. The greenhouses used for tomatoes can be...

The state Department of Consumer Protection plans to award licenses for at least three new dispensaries to keep up with Connecticut's growing medical marijuana program. There are currently nine dispensaries and four growers to serve the state's 22,348 medical marijuana patients, according to...

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said Wednesday that Utahns will vote to legalize medical marijuana. Whether that will be this November – when it may be on the ballot as an initiative – or a future year, the governor didn't say. Speaking to a middle school class in Riverton, Herbert was asked by a...

Republican opposition to legalizing marijuana for medicinal use may be softening. While it's not likely that such legislation would be approved this year, the Indiana General Assembly this session could edge a little closer to one day legalizing medical marijuana. Rep. Jim Lucas...

Until today, medical marijuana producer Auscann was working under the assumption that it had a target market of about 3 million Australians dealing with chronic pain. Suddenly, its potential market has been blown wide open. The Australian government announced today that it would allow...

January 1 saw the official legalization of recreational marijuana in California, and with it a potential huge boost to an industry that one research company estimated could be worth $6 billion by 2021. And those living in and around Los Angeles should get set for trucks driving around the...

The Trump administration on Thursday will free federal prosecutors to more aggressively enforce marijuana laws, effectively threatening to undermine the legalization movement that has spread to six states, most recently California. The Justice Department is expected to rescind an Obama-era...

Iowans who want to buy cannabis oil to treat a range of ailments don't have to wait a year for state officials to set up a tightly regulated distribution system — because versions of the products already are for sale on store shelves. State and federal officials say the oils, known as...

A controversial bill aimed at legalizing recreational marijuana in Delaware will be rewritten in the coming weeks in an effort to shore up support in the General Assembly, according to one of the measure's lead sponsors. "There is a lot of stuff we have to go through to reach some consensus,"...

If a single date marks the beginning of the end for the legal prohibition of marijuana, there’s a very good case for January 1, 2018. On this day, California began allowing the legal sales of marijuana for recreational use. According to state estimates, more than 400 businesses were licensed...

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has some advice for California after recreational marijuana became legal in the Golden State. He told Cheddar that his state faced issues with packaging and making sure children did not have access to marijuana. "The things we had challenges with were...

California is now the largest state in the nation to have legal and regulated recreational marijuana. And while that alone is a blow to the prohibitionist policies of the failed war on drugs, a lesser-known provision in the state’s new law, along with efforts in a few local jurisdictions, aims...

Dispensaries in California had lines out the door on New Year's Day after recreational marijuana sales became legal, but don't expect to see that here in Florida just yet. "Right now we're very far behind," said local attorney Michael Minardi. Minardi heads up Regulate Florida, a group...

With Gov.-elect Phil Murphy vowing to legalize marijuana in his first 100 days in office, many municipalities find themselves grappling with an unexpected question: Should we allow pot to be sold in our town? For some local leaders, the answer is an unequivocal no. Marijuana shops would cause...

In the rapidly evolving world of legal marijuana, 2018 is poised to be one for the history books in Ohio. In less than 10 months, some of Ohio's sickest residents should be able to use state-issued identification cards to shop at a local dispensary for a medical marijuana product grown and...

Ocean County is quickly becoming New Jersey's biggest holdout in the legalization of marijuana. Berkeley Township council members on Monday introduced an ordinance that would prohibit any business that sells marijuana — medicinal or recreational — or weed paraphernalia. The 56-square-mile...

A adviser on marijuana policy to Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to see doctors make drug testing a routine part of primary-care medicine and force some users into treatment against their will, he told The Daily Beast. Dr. Robert DuPont was among a small group of drug-policy experts...

Companies in the cannabis industry have added nearly $2 billion. in value since California dispensaries started to legally sell recreational marijuana on Jan. 1. Heartened by the reportedly long lines outside Californian dispensaries and a possible wave of legalization in other states, shares...

As Los Angeles moves toward allowing the sale of recreational marijuana, joining cities across the state in the newly legal enterprise, police here offered a stern word of caution. Yes, recreational pot will be legal to sell (and buy, and consume, and cultivate). But there are limits. And the...

Marijuana stocks skyrocketed on the first trading day after California legalized retail sales, unleashing the largest legal market in the country. Thanks to the new California marijuana laws allowing recreational use for people ages 21 and up as of Jan. 1, imbibers are bombarding dispensaries...