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At least 22 of the 24 companies chosen to grow Ohio's first medical marijuana plants are also vying for one of 40 licenses to make marijuana brownies, lotions, patches and other products. Of those, at least 12 also applied for licenses to sell marijuana at dispensaries -- the state plans to...

Peter Bernard's Yuletide plans include dressing up in a tuxedo emblazoned with marijuana leaves, donning a green Santa hat and doling out cookie bars made with marijuana to his friends from a big pillowcase. "That's me exercising my right to give marijuana this Christmas," said Bernard, a...

Services at the Coachella Valley Church begin and end with the Lord's Prayer. In between, there is the sacrament. "Breathe deep and blow harder," intoned Pastor Grant Atwell after distributing marijuana joints to 20 worshipers on a recent Sunday. "Nail the insight down, whether you get it...

Legalizing marijuana in a country like Canada is a difficult task. In fact, some days, the individual asks and needs of 10 provinces and three territories makes the job seem almost impossible. Each province and territory, after all, will be responsible for determining how the drug is to be...

The Carson City Planning Commission approved a special use permit for a marijuana distributor to relocate its business on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2017. The special use permit will allow Paladin to relocate its marijuana distribution business to 3160 N. Deer Run Road, which is zoned general...

One of law enforcement's great frustrations with legal marijuana – and anti-legalizers' perennial talking points – has been the absence of a reliable way of determining if someone has been driving while stoned. A marijuana high (and therefore impairment) usually lasts two or three hours after...

The Cannabis Control Commission, the body tasked with overseeing Massachusetts' new legal marijuana industry, voted unanimously Thursday to approve draft regulations. These are the rules that will govern everything from licensing to retail sales of marijuana. The new rules will allow for...

San Diego police investigating an illegal marijuana delivery business served search warrants at homes in Pacific Beach and Bay Park, seized about 45 pounds of marijuana and arrested two people Wednesday morning. An apartment on Haines Street near Fortuna Avenue in Pacific Beach and a house on...

In 2017, some Americans could buy legal marijuana almost as easily as they could order a pizza. Pot shops outnumber Starbucks stores in states like Colorado and Oregon, and medical marijuana delivery services drop the drug off at people's doors in California and Massachusetts. With marijuana...

People don't just smoke marijuana. They vaporize it, bake it into brownies, use it in eye drops, and rub extracts of it onto their skin. Some people use the drug as medicine, others for the fun of getting high. In states that have legalized pot, regulators have struggled to make sure the...

The West Coast is looking mighty green these days. As of Jan. 1, 2018, when California joins the growing list of states with legalized recreational cannabis markets, adults 21 years and older will be able to legally purchase, possess and consume marijuana from the Arctic Circle all the way down...

York County Sheriff's initiation a traffic stop on Interstate 80 on Thursday the 20th, and were surprised to find 60 pounds of high-grade marijuana being transported by an elderly couple. 80-year-old Patrick Jiron and 83-year-old Barbara Jiron were in the car when it was pulled over for...

When police saw a car with Texas plates and no lights, driving through heavy fog on Tuesday morning, they knew something was wrong. An officer from the 18th Judicial Drug Task Force working on Interstate 65 pulled over the car, a white Ford, with two men inside. Task Force Officer Jason...

On CNBC's hit primetime series "The Profit," entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis puts his own money on the line to help save and grow struggling businesses. Now, he's headed to California, as Proposition 64, a new law that allows any adult to buy cannabis legally, goes into effect New Year's Day. This...

David Taylor's business card carries the title "plant whisperer." "I talk to them every day," Taylor said earlier this month, outside the four greenhouses in rural Medical Lake where he operates his marijuana business, the Joint Venture. "I talk sweet to them. They're all females. I try to be...

San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies in Rancho Cucamonga investigating tips about suspicious activity at two homes said they seized 1,520 marijuana plants and two pounds of marijuana on Tuesday, Dec. 19. Deputies also found evidence that electricity was being stolen by bypassing the meter...

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has conducted the first of its statewide minor decoy operations focusing on marijuana -- and all 20 Bend-area businesses passed the test, the agency said Wednesday. Like the counterpart for liquor licensees, the "sting" operation is aimed at seeing if...

Florida's first chain of walk-in clinics for medical marijuana treatment is closing most of them less than six months after opening. Tetra Health Care, a California-based chain that hires licensed doctors to write medical marijuana recommendations at six clinics in Florida, is closing all but...

A huge amount of marijuana, $150,000 worth, was stolen early Tuesday morning from a cannabis cultivator in South Anchorage. The owner of Danish Gardens, Dane Wyrick, says it happened Tuesday morning about 1:30. He says four people, a woman and three men, smashed through the door using a...

Though most eyes were transfixed on the astronomical rise of cryptocurrencies this year, among traditional equities it was marijuana stocks that really impressed Wall Street. Of those pot stocks with a market cap of $200 million or higher, a majority have at least doubled in value this year...