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Ohioans could vote to legalize recreational marijuana and industrial hemp production as soon as next year through a measure backed by companies that didn't get one of the state's medical marijuana grow licenses. Jimmy Gould and Ian James, co-founders of Ohio's 2015 failed recreational marijuana...

State lawmakers are launching a new effort to overhaul Maine's recreational pot law in January, hoping to find a political compromise to avoid another gubernatorial veto. The committee charged with launching the state's commercial adult-use market already has reintroduced the bill that Gov...

Congress just gave the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, which bars the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prosecute people buying or selling medical marijuana in states that have legalized it, a temporary reprieve until Dec. 22. However, as Rep. Earl Blumenauer, (D-Ore.)...

Maryland's medical marijuana dispensaries finally opened this week after years of delay, but many are running out of the drug as limited supply is struggling to keep up with high demand. Five of seven licensed dispensaries that started selling the drug in recent days say they've either...

It's been two years but the city is once again moving ahead on medical marijuana. By a vote of 6-2, the City Council supported Mayor James Fiorentini in signing a letter of nonopposition to allow Alternative Therapies Group to set up a medical marijuana dispensary in a business park near...

Portage's only medical marijuana dispensary will be allowed to stay in business and the city intends to pursue an ordinance on local control of medical marijuana facilities. Both actions came at a special meeting of the Portage City Council Tuesday night when the council voted 5-2 on an...

Howard County will soon be home to two medical marijuana dispensaries, as the state's first licensed dispensary locations begin to open their doors. Remedy Columbia and Greenhouse Wellness in Ellicott City are set to open in the coming weeks to bring residents some of Maryland's first legal...

Cook County commissioners on Wednesday will decide whether to put on the ballot a question asking voters if recreational marijuana use by people 21 and older should be legalized. The referendum is advisory only, so weed would not become legal if the question is approved in the March 20...

Sometime soon in Massachusetts, you'll be able to walk into a café, ask for a marijuana product, and consume it right there without heading home first. The state agency responsible for regulating legalized marijuana approved a policy on Monday that will allow for such establishments...

Legislation giving Ontario's government a monopoly on recreational marijuana sales in the province passed at Queen's Park on Tuesday. MPPs passed the Cannabis Act 63 to 27, with support from the Liberals and the NDP, while the PC party voted no. The bill creates a provincial agency that...

A medical marijuana distribution and transportation company proposed for a new district in the city took a big step forward after the Planning Commission voted unanimously to grant it a necessary permit, the second business to receive one in as many weeks. The conditional use permit allows...

The vast majority of doctors said they would prescribe medical marijuana to children with cancer but those who are certified to provide it are more reluctant to do so, a new study found. The survey showed that 92 percent of healthcare professionals were willing to help children with cancer...

A chemical found in marijuana, known as tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, has been found to potentially slow the process in which mental decline can occur in up to 50 percent of HIV patients, says a new Michigan State University study. "It's believed that cognitive function decreases in many of...

Medical marijuana is now available in Maryland, more than four years after the General Assembly passed a law legalizing it. Standing up the industry – with growers, processors, dispensaries and doctors – took longer than expected. The law needed to be tweaked, rules to needed to written and...

The proportion of Americans who express support for marijuana legalization in opinion polls has risen sharply over the past decade from the low 30s to as high as 60 percent. But a new poll shows that what Americans who support "marijuana legalization" actually want is more nuanced than it might...

As the legalization of recreational marijuana in Canada next summer draws closer, investors have been piling into cannabis-cultivating companies, driving the shares of producers such as Canopy Growth Corp. and Aphria Inc. up more than 100 per cent over the past 12 months. There is, however...

We've noticed some debate in Hawaii and elsewhere over whether medical marijuana users may be allowed to own firearms. In short, the answer is unclear – and Ohio, with its budding medical marijuana law, is no different. On the federal level, marijuana remains an illegal Schedule-I narcotic...

Medical marijuana was legalized in New York State in 2016. But LIBN readers haven't yet seen the program flourish in their personal experiences. That's according to a recent informal poll on libn.com. In response to the question, "Do you know someone who has purchased medical marijuana in New...

Columbia police said they arrested two men after finding a FedEx package with 23 pounds of marijuana inside on Monday afternoon. Police said with the help of a Columbia police K-9 and FedEx investigators, they served a narcotics-related search warrant at 3247 Wind River Circle around 2:30...

California is one the latest states to legalize recreational marijuana. With Proposition 64 going into full effect on Jan. 1, 2018, we could be one step closer to new federal regulations, which would make investment opportunities in the marijuana industry more accessible to everyone...