marijuana

It's the day of our family's 2017 Thanksgiving feast. The kitchen is all hustle and bustle, but the patter of feet has stopped the commotion. All eyes have fallen to the ground. With the help of her uncle, 1-year-old KaseyAnn is walking. She has had the opportunity to develop as any other...

This week is crunch time for the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission. The nascent agency, charged with overseeing recreational pot, has said it expects marijuana will be available for sale to adults older than 21 by July 1. But for that to happen, it must first translate the state law...

You may think that you will be able to buy marijuana legally as of July 1. You should think again. Conservative senators are threatening to hold up passage of the two bills that would legalize cannabis consumption and toughen rules against abuse. Unless these senators yield, the bills are...

Some of the team behind the failed effort to legalize marijuana for recreational and medical use in Ohio in 2015 are going back to voters again next year. Jimmy Gould, a backer of the 2015 statewide ballot issue, is expected to announce Monday that he and others are backing the "Free Market...

Town meeting representatives next month will consider changing where medical marijuana dispensaries are allowed in Lee. The bylaw amendment would allow medical dispensaries in three of the municipality's eight zoning districts: rural business, industrial and Office Park and Light Industrial...

Nevada may be cruising smoothly toward its second year of legalized recreational marijuana, but the outlook for cannabis is vastly different in states across the country. Early adopter states such as Colorado and Washington are pulling in big bucks – they're projected to have annual...

A cloud is looming over Ohio and every other state with a medical marijuana system. A little-known federal budget amendment that protects growers, processors, sellers and the professionals who work with them might expire this year at the behest of the Trump administration. Now known as the...

Ed Forchion, the most recognizable face of the marijuana legalization movement in New Jersey, views the state's changing legal landscape and sees irony in it. Lawmakers are putting finishing touches on a legalization measure. Gov.-elect Phil Murphy has said he would sign it. Analysts see a...

A Johnstown marijuana business narrowly missed being selected by the state of Ohio to run a marijuana farm to grow medical marijuana. Apeks Supercritical, which manufactures equipment used in the medical marijuana industry, was one of the investors in Ohio Grown Therapies LLC. Ohio Grown...

Our next governor, Phil Murphy, has pledged to place the legalization of recreational marijuana on a grease-wheeled, non-stop train to the Promised Land. Once accomplished, jubilation shall ring across the land. Budgets will be balanced. Schools will hum to the tune of platinum-plated...

After Yarly Raygoza attended the drug prevention program at the Boys & Girls Club here last year, she used what she learned to talk a few friends out of using marijuana. The 14-year-old took the class again this year but worries that counseling her friends will become more difficult...

Five months after legalizing recreational marijuana, there are more than 16,000 Uruguayans registered to buy the drug from pharmacies, up from 5,000 users in July. People in Uruguay can also grow plants at home, or become a member of a local Cannabis Club to withdraw up to 40g of marijuana...

During Simon & Garfunkel's legendary concert in New York's Central Park in 1981, Paul Simon took a moment to thank those who made the show possible: police and fire departments, parks commissioner, the mayor. Then he made special note of "people that never get recognized for doing good things...

It's mid-morning at the headquarters of a medical marijuana delivery service in south Orange County, and employees are gearing up for orders to start flowing in. A skinny, clean-cut Millennial named Ben packs a smell-proof duffle bag with plastic medicine vials full of dried marijuana buds...

Sen. Jason Barickman made some waves amongst constituents Wednesday, when he announced via a Facebook post that he would support legislation legalizing cannabis that he anticipated would be coming up for a vote next spring. When reached for comment Thursday, Barickman said that while some of...

Outside the Provincial Court of British Columbia (BC) in downtown Vancouver, a city regularly hailed as one of the best places to live in the world, there is a farmers market dedicated to marijuana — or "craft cannabis" as traders like to call it. Glass jars filled with the drug are lined up...

There was a candid – albeit somewhat horrifying – discussion before the Cannabis Control Commission that gave a glimpse into just how far down the merry marijuana lane this state could go. Michael Latulippe, an official of the Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance and a member of the...

Green Bay Packers tight end Lance Kendricks is charged in Outagamie County with marijuana possession. According to online court records, the Outagamie County Sheriff's Office says it found Kendricks breaking the law on September 2. The district attorney filed the Possession of THC charge this...

Pittsburgh has a place to treat patients eligible for medical marijuana. The Compassionate Certification Center, on Stanwix Street in downtown Pittsburgh, opened for business Friday. Channel 11 talked with some people who attended the center's grand opening. Many of those who came in...

The Town Council on Monday will consider whether to enact a one-year moratorium on recreational marijuana sales in the town. The idea is at the Palmer Planning Board's request. The planning board, during a public hearing in July, said the board required additional time to establish proper...