marijuana

Most banks refuse to open accounts for cannabis-related businesses even in states where pot is legal, citing federal laws that outlaw the drug and consider it on par with cocaine and heroin. In Maryland, however, at least one community bank is working with the state's newly launched medical...

County sheriffs across Michigan are using excess state revenue from medical marijuana patient and caregiver fees to beef up enforcement as the state prepares to license dispensaries and related pot businesses in communities that want them. Law enforcement agencies in 54 of Michigan's 83...

The wait is finally over for recreational pot users to come out of the shadows. "I'm about 56 years old and I never thought this day would happen," said Brett Anthony Muret of Woodside. He came to Buddy's Cannabis in San Jose to do his pot shopping. Buddy's was the first dispensary to...

It's officially 2018, and sales of marijuana for recreational use is legal in California. Monterey Bay Alternative Medicine in Del Rey Oaks became the first location in Monterey County to sell recreational marijuana Monday and was greeted with a line of consumers as a result. "This has...

Just as California enters its new year with wide-ranging marijuana legalization, a new partnership has been formed between a popular social network specializing in online medical communities and the pro-cannabis media outlet, The Fresh Toast. The partnership between The Fresh Toast and...

California will launch the world's largest regulated commercial market for recreational marijuana on Monday, as dozens of newly licensed stores catering to adults who enjoy the drug for its psychoactive effects open for business up and down the state. It becomes the sixth U.S. state, and by...

Retail cannabis shops in California opened their doors on Monday for the first time, inaugurating what proponents say will become the world’s largest market for legalized recreational marijuana. A transaction that remains illegal in many parts of the country seemed almost banal on Monday for...

Quietly and a little under the radar, recreational sales of marijuana began in Carson City January 1, 2018. There was very little fanfare, no long lines and the two stores in Carson City opened at their normal times. At Rise, it was business as usual, just with a slight uptick in customers...

The baddest man on the planet is breaking bad. Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson's secret plan to revolutionize the pot industry in America with a super one-stop pot-shop amusement park compound in California has been revealed. The facility, unofficially titled Tyson Ranch...

New Jersey could reap as much as $1 billion a year from legal marijuana – the equivalent of more than a half-cent boost in the sales tax – if the state taxes the industry aggressively and imposes fees on growers, distributors, testing labs, retailers and delivery services, according to...

A Washington marijuana grower argues his farm is an agricultural activity and should be exempt from the state's Clean Air Act. An appeals panel will tour a Western Washington farm in January to help it decide whether smells from harvesting marijuana should be treated with the same leniency as...

Will 2018 be the year Michiganders legalize pot? As long lines for the pungent product form Tuesday on the west coast – here at home, appears residents are gearing up for a vote on the issue of marijuana for recreational use on Tuesday, November 6. In case you missed it, organizers of a...

Recreational marijuana can now be sold legally to adults 21 years or older who have a valid photo ID in California. A sense of activity was going on in the City of Shasta Lake to celebrate not just the new year, but the legalization of recreational marijuana. The town is one of the few...

Anyone hoping that Florida voters would get a shot at legalizing recreational marijuana in 2018 will likely be disappointed. Organizers of the two primary efforts to get the issue on the state's Nov. 6 ballot say they won't come close to collecting the required 766,000 petition signatures by...

Portage's proposed medical marijuana ordinance dealing with zoning standards will get its first public hearing Thursday at the Portage Planning Commission. The 7 p.m. hearing at Portage City Hall will detail and take public comments on the 11-page zoning ordinance proposal dealing with five...

Justin Trudeau's marijuana czar is warning that policy makers may need to adjust taxes to prevent prices from falling too low after legalization. Canadian marijuana companies – which have surged in value – will achieve economies of scale that will help drive down production cost, according to...

The tiny town of Nipton, Calif., owned by a company that legally grows and sells marijuana, wants cannabis fans to know they're welcome to come and party – provided they bring their own weed. Nipton, a former mining town with a population of 20, sits in the far eastern part of San Bernardino...

In California, many people began 2018 by lining up to buy recreational marijuana. California joins seven other states and Washington D.C. to legalize weed. The state is now the largest market for legal marijuana in the country–and experts believe it could generate at least a billion dollars...

The new year brings with it a new age of legal marijuana: As of Monday, the growing, sale and use of recreational cannabis in California is now legal for individuals over the age of 21. But will it change much in the state? Implementing the new law requires an impressive amount of regulation...

A steadily growing number of banks are willing to open accounts for marijuana businesses, according to new federal data. Even as a string of conflicting signals from the Trump administration surrounds the debate about legalization with uncertainty, the number of depository institutions that...