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"Groove on! Groove on!" blared from speakers outside a gray warehouse in Santa Ana. Inside, a line of 60 people snaked through the shop, waiting to be helped by a budtender. "We were bombarded!" said Robert Taft Jr., founder of the marijuana dispensary 420 Central. When the shop opened at...

Adan Perez was in the Coachella Valley for New Year's Eve when he realized he could join California residents in doing what he can't do back home in Arizona: Legally purchase marijuana. "I think it's amazing," Perez, 29, said Monday as he left Desert Organic Solutions Collective in North Palm...

In November 2016, voters in California approved a ballot measure known as Proposition 64, legalizing adult recreational use of marijuana statewide. The initiative, which took full effect on Jan. 1, will make California the largest legal pot market in the world. For decades, California has...

Legal sale of recreational marijuana began in California on Monday with fanfare, and some anxiety. Companies began selling pot in a relatively small number of businesses Monday, with more expected to join in the coming days and weeks. The state has issued dozens of permits for retailers to...

And you thought Starbucks got crowded. Before dawn Monday, lines began to form outside of many of San Diego's licensed marijuana stores and they soon snaked part way around buildings on the first day of recreational cannabis sales in California. Hundreds of customers – everyone from older...

The Latest on recreational marijuana sales in California (all times local): 7:00 AM Attorneys advising a group of Los Angeles dispensaries have concluded that those businesses can continue to legally sell medicinal marijuana as "collectives," until they obtain local and state licenses...

Within months of Arkansans' November 2016 vote to legalize medical marijuana, Texarkana set rules–and a price–for cannabis businesses in the city. In July, the Board of Directors fast-tracked and approved an ordinance setting fees for dispensaries that will sell medical marijuana, and...

A traveling doctor who treats medical cannabis patients is fighting new state rules that she claims discriminate against disabled, rural and low-income patients. Dr. Mary Callison crisscrosses the state and uses video conferencing to certify and care for hundreds of medical marijuana patients...

North Dakota's entry into medical marijuana will require establishing a monitoring system that will enable officials to track the product from seed to final sale. It will have to account for medical marijuana that initially will be grown at up to two operations and distributed through up to...

The arrival of the new year in California brought with it broad legalization of marijuana, a much-anticipated change that comes two decades after the state was the first to allow pot for medical use. The nation's most populous state joins a growing list of other states, and the nation's...

California has become the largest state in the US to legalize recreational cannabis use. As of 1 January 2018, adults aged over 21 can possess up to an ounce (28 grams) of the drug and can grow up to six marijuana plants at home. Opponents say the law will lead to more driving under the...

A newly released state data dump shows that little ol' Summit County stands second-to-none among its Colorado High Country peers – and 10th overall across the state – when it comes to recreational marijuana retail. The Cannabist, a marijuana-focused publication by The Denver Post, first...

From the outside, the building is nondescript, your typical medical office nestled near an acupuncturist, a doctor's office and steps from a CVS pharmacy. From the inside, however, Bill Askinazi says he is watching medical miracles. An example: The 35-year-old man, toes on both feet...

Melanie Brinegar smelled of marijuana, so a Colorado police officer asked her to get out of her vehicle. On the one-legged stand, a routine part of field sobriety tests, she lost her balance after 28 seconds, when she needed to go 30. A drug recognition evaluation that included looking at her...

In case you hadn't noticed, the marijuana industry is absolutely on fire. According to cannabis research firm ArcView, the North American legal weed industry grew by 34% in 2016 to $6.9 billion, and is expected to grow by an average of 26% per year through 2021. If ArcView's estimates come to...

Christopher Dean Smith was arrested on a marijuana farm in northern California in 2014. Smith, now 28, said he was with a friend on the property in the town of Chico, about 145km north of Sacramento, when two vehicles pulled up. Federal law enforcement agents approached the pair and told them...

Florida's First Green Bank started serving the state's medical marijuana industry with much fanfare this year, boasting that it was the only financial institution in the state willing to work with marijuana businesses. "I suspect we'll have the entire industry by [the fall]," the bank's founder...

The Golden State is about to get a lot greener. Sales of recreational marijuana began on Monday, January 1, after Californians voted to legalize the drug in the 2016 election. The market's debut brings an end to prohibition in the most populous state, which is now also the biggest legal...

Uncertain about new regulations governing the sale of marijuana, some dispensary operators say that starting Monday they won't sell medical cannabis to customers if they're equipped merely with a referral from a local doctor. Instead, to avoid the possibility of breaking the law, some...

Ellen and Stu Smith live in Scituate, Rhode Island. They are champions for the use of medical cannabis for chronic pain. The two advocates are concerned–they see two threats on the horizon for people who use medical cannabis to address their chronic pain issues. One is US Attorney General...