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The city of Adrian is moving forward to allow and regulate medical marijuana facilities within the community. At a special meeting Wednesday, the Adrian City Commission by a 5-1 vote approved a regulatory ordinance's language that would permit commercial medical marijuana facilities...

Medical marijuana dispensaries and other portions of the medicinal cannabis supply chain could be legal in Fresno as the result of a unanimous vote Thursday by the City Council. The 7-0 vote begins the process of rewriting the city's complete ban on commercial marijuana operations that was...

Alaska's one-year-old recreational marijuana industry faces a major test Friday morning as members of the Alaska Marijuana Control Board consider whether to revoke the license of a manufacturer accused of selling untested, contaminated marijuana edibles. The board meets at 8 a.m. Friday by...

On a frigid, snowy December morning nearly 10 years after medical marijuana became legal in Michigan, the fully regulated business officially started. The day started with a whimper, rather than the bang state regulators had prepared for. Two hours after the doors opened at the Department of...

When California rings in the new year with the sale of recreational pot for the first time, Texas will be tiptoeing into its own marijuana milestone: a medical cannabis program so restrictive that doubts swirl over who will even use it. Texas is the last big state to allow some form of...

Maryland's marijuana regulators on Thursday approved 12 new dispensaries to operate in the state's fledgling legal medical marijuana industry, bringing the total number of fully approved legal storefronts to 22. At least 60 more dispensaries that received preliminary licenses are still...

Ross Perot warned of a "giant sucking sound" when the original NAFTA was signed, but the new NAFTA being negotiated right now may coincide with a giant puffing sound. Marijuana legalization efforts in both Canada and the United States (and Mexico for medical marijuana) will, as with most goods...

For the stoner who has everything ... Walmart is selling a "Weed Marijuana Leaf Christmas Tree" this season. (At least it was until Wednesday afternoon, when the retailer pulled the tree from its website.) Ornaments and bow were not included with the 7-foot faux Tannenbaum, which had a...

California's legal marijuana market is finally, fitfully, taking shape. The state on Thursday issued the first batch of business licenses to sell and transport recreational-use pot, just 18 days before legal sales will begin on Jan. 1, 2018. The 20 temporary licenses – some of which were...

The state on Friday started accepting applications for the state's new, regulated medical marijuana facilities. An estimate from the House Fiscal Agency pegs the industry as growing to more than $800 million. Signs directed people to the Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation if they wanted...

The US Drug Enforcement Administration has long held that the non-psychoactive component of marijuana, cannabidiol, is a schedule I drug. That is, a drug that has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. But according to a preliminary report embraced by the World Health...

The World Health Organization has declared that CBD - the relaxant property of cannabis used in medical marijuana - should not be a scheduled drug. As legalization of cannabis has spread rapidly across the United States and around the world, health officials have cautioned that we do not have...

TheraCann USA Benchmark has abandoned plans to build a $20 million medical marijuana plant in Kingsley. Richard Goodman, president of TheraCann USA, confirmed the decision on Wednesday, Dec. 13. He cited a variety of reasons for the decision, most notably the time it was taking to finalize...

Cook County voters will get their say on whether recreational marijuana use should be made legal for adults in Illinois, after commissioners on Wednesday voted to put that question on the March primary ballot. Commissioners voted unanimously to approve the advisory referendum. Board President...

Medical marijuana regulators approved 12 new dispensaries to open in the state on Thursday, more than doubling the number of businesses allowed to sell the drug. But they cautioned the supply is still low, and it may be hard to buy marijuana until at least March. "Product is limited,"...

The Nova Scotian government is making moves to stock marijuana on liquor store shelves. According to CBC News, the province's government-owned alcohol distributor, Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC), would be responsible for selling recreational marijuana in stores and online to patrons...

A Phoenix man who says he was forced by police to eat marijuana or go to jail has settled a lawsuit against the city for $100,000. The Phoenix City Council approved the settlement Wednesday. Edgar Castro was pulled over for speeding in September 2016 and police officers reported finding a...

Criminal charges against Georgia linebacker Natrez Patrick have been dropped, ESPN.com reported. The district attorney's office in Winder, Ga., decided not to pursue the marijuana charges against Patrick, nor will they charge Georgia teammate Jayson Stanley with DUI. The duo were driving...

Vermont appears poised to become the next state to legalize marijuana. And, according to top elected officials, it is likely to do so within a matter of weeks. Last week, House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, a Democrat, said she expects "it likely will pass in early January." Days earlier, Gov...

The doors at the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs will open at 8 a.m. Friday to begin accepting applications and fees from people who want to get a license for the lucrative medical marijuana business. The Department also will accept license applications online, beginning...