marijuana

Ancorage, Alaska - The owners of Frozen Budz have high hopes now that they've received Alaska's first retail marijuana license. Destiny Neade, co-owner of the Fairbanks business, received a round of applause from the audience after she won unanimous approval for the inaugural permit from the...

Banning pot businesses for another year is what's best for Boca Raton, a city board says. Boca's planning and zoning board recommended Thursday night, in a 4-1 vote, that the city should extend its 12-month ban on medical-marijuana-related activities until November 2017. In recent years...

Banning pot businesses for another year is what's best for Boca Raton, a city board says. Boca's planning and zoning board recommended Thursday night, in a 4-1 vote, that the city should extend its 12-month ban on medical-marijuana-related activities until November 2017. In recent years...

Puyallup, Wash. - The Puyallup Tribe of Indians is planning to sell recreational marijuana on tribal land in Fife. Tribal spokesman John Weymer says the tribe is eyeing a marijuana shop where it now runs Stogie's Cigar & Sports Lounge in Fife, about 30 miles south of Seattle. The News...

"The secret history of the heroin crisis," Don Winslow writes at Esquire, is rooted in marijuana legalization. Specifically, Winslow claims that because marijuana legalization in Colorado and other states depleted drug cartels' revenues - by pushing marijuana out of the black market - the...

Albany, N.Y. - Medical marijuana workers from Vireo Health are the first in New York with a union contract. The company is one of five medical marijuana producers operating in the state. The contract applies to 15 workers at the firm's grow house in Fulton County, northeast of Albany, and at...

Albany, N.Y. - Medical marijuana workers from Vireo Health are the first in New York with a union contract. The company is one of five medical marijuana producers operating in the state. The contract applies to 15 workers at the firm's grow house in Fulton County, northeast of Albany, and at...

Jason Thomas helped carry out the war on drugs, but what he saw convinced him it wasn't always a just cause. During his two and a half years in law enforcement, when he served as a corrections officer at a 120-bed corrections facility and as a small-town deputy marshall, the Colorado resident...

Monterey County has been up in smoke about placing limitations and regulations on outdoor cultivation of medical marijuana. Currently, licensed growers can cultivate outside for personal use while commercial growers are limited to indoor operations. The Monterey County Board of Supervisors...

Denver, Colorado - When Ohio lawmakers voted to legalize medical marijuana earlier this year, the rest of the country was watching. Ohio has twice the population of Colorado, considered the pioneer for state-regulated medical and recreational marijuana programs. And Ohio's list of acceptable...

Denver, Colorado - When Ohio lawmakers voted to legalize medical marijuana earlier this year, the rest of the country was watching. Ohio has twice the population of Colorado, considered the pioneer for state-regulated medical and recreational marijuana programs. And Ohio's list of acceptable...

The opponents of legalizing small amounts of recreational marijuana are trying desperately to cloud the issue. That's all they've got. The latest to blow smoke into the faces of potential voters are Gov. Doug Ducey and the Arizona Association of County School Superintendents. When Ducey...

It seems likely that Californians in November will vote to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, along with a massive raft of state regulation and taxation schemes. We bribe our government to secure permission to do what we want with our own bodies. Go figure. In any event, the...

Mentor-On-The-Lake, Ohio - Ohio's medical marijuana law went into effect Thursday but there is little in place to actually put the law into practice. "Today we start the process in Ohio for the functioning legal medical marijuana market," said Tom Haren, a Westlake attorney who has done...

Mentor-On-The-Lake, Ohio - Ohio's medical marijuana law went into effect Thursday but there is little in place to actually put the law into practice. "Today we start the process in Ohio for the functioning legal medical marijuana market," said Tom Haren, a Westlake attorney who has done...

On May 26, the RCMP conducted a raid of Toronto's medicinal marijuana dispensaries in a massive mobilization of police forces, which led to 90 arrests and 257 charges. Police also seized 270 kg of dried marijuana and other products which left many of the 43 targeted dispensaries in ruin. Why...

On May 26, the RCMP conducted a raid of Toronto's medicinal marijuana dispensaries in a massive mobilization of police forces, which led to 90 arrests and 257 charges. Police also seized 270 kg of dried marijuana and other products which left many of the 43 targeted dispensaries in ruin. Why...

Downtown Los Angeles - Thousands of people descended upon downtown Los Angeles for a massive marijuana expo. The Cannabis World Congress and Business Exposition aims to educate those interested in joining or networking with the cannabis industry. Many gathered at the Los Angeles Convention...

According to the Seattle Times, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has decided to keep marijuana and its derivatives classified as a Schedule 1 drug. That class of drugs includes heroin and other dangerous drugs that have no medical value. That ruling caused the marijuana health benefits...

According to the Seattle Times, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has decided to keep marijuana and its derivatives classified as a Schedule 1 drug. That class of drugs includes heroin and other dangerous drugs that have no medical value. That ruling caused the marijuana health benefits...