marijuana

The Maine House voted Tuesday to sustain Gov. Paul LePage's veto of a bill that would put in place the legal framework for retail sales of recreational marijuana. The bill was the result of more than nine months of special committee work, after voters narrowly approved a law that put Maine...

Marijuana use in Larimer County spiked following legalization of recreational use, according to a survey by the Health District of Northern Larimer County. Almost a third of adults used it in the 12 months prior to the survey, which was conducted in fall 2016, including almost half of people...

Buying weed in California is about to get less risky and much more expensive. A patchwork of new policies, including special taxes, will roll out in the state before sales of recreational marijuana begin at the start of 2018. California will include a 15% levy on all cannabis sales in the...

AUGUSTA, Maine – On Friday, Gov. Paul LePage followed through on threats to veto legislation that would have started the process of implementing a regulated marijuana market that Maine voters called for when they approved Question 1 in 2016. The bill, which was supported overwhelmingly in the...

The roads of rural Lee County form a web running around and between vast fields of oranges and grapefruit, melons and potatoes, steer and cows. Soon the agricultural acres and fodder fields could lie next to what may be Florida's next cash crop – medical marijuana. As the first anniversary...

Construction will start this month on the city's first medical marijuana dispensary. It could be up and running as early as April, according to Dr. Henry Crowley, president of CannaTech Medicinals. CannaTech Medicinals is building a 50,000-square-foot growing and processing facility in the...

A recent article entitled Federal Employees In D.C. Area Are Buying Loads Of Legal Weed noted that federal employees were buying marijuana at a higher rate than the general public. (See Federal Employees, Smoking Pot and Working in DC : FedSmith.com) While the article’s headline above...

Maine lawmakers are returning to Augusta following Republican Gov. Paul LePage's veto of a bill to regulate and tax the sale of marijuana. A two-thirds vote of lawmakers present Monday evening will determine whether or not the veto stands. The bill that establishes rules for the retail...

There has arguably been no faster-growing industry in recent memory than marijuana. According to cannabis research firm ArcView, the legal weed market in North America is projected to grow by 26% a year through 2021, yielding a market worth nearly $22 billion. This rapid growth is precisely why...

Joshua James Frey is clear: "Without medical marijuana I would be dead." This Marine Corps veteran is a two-time Purple Heart awardee. He is among the former warfighters, led by the American Legion, who are on the frontlines of the fight for a sensible, federal medical marijuana policy...

November 4th marks five years since Colorado and Washington were the first states in the nation to legalize marijuana. Amendment 64 passed in Colorado in November 2012, legalizing marijuana for adults over the age of 21. Gov. John Hickenlooper formalized it as part of the state constitution...

The City Council is due to take a final vote Monday on proposed zoning and licensing regulations that would make this among the first municipalities in Maine to welcome so-called adult-use marijuana businesses. City officials have been working on the proposed ordinance amendments for nearly a...

From November through April 2018, Colorado pot smokers will be offered discounted Lyft rides through a collaborative campaign called 320 Movement. This is a joint effort by the Colorado Department of Transportation, Lyft and the Marijuana Industry group. The campaign originally launched in...

Off-year election days are typically sleepy affairs, and most Bay Area jurisdictions aren’t going to the polls Tuesday. But in Pacifica, voters will be making decisions on an issue that is causing turbulence around the region. On the coastal city’s ballot: marijuana taxation, a big concern for...

Jody Smedley is proud to be weaned from her former diet of prescription opiates. It wasn't long ago when she forced herself to swallow Norco to relieve the pain associated with her nerve and muscle wasting disease and Xanax to help her sleep at night. The prescriptions helped, but couldn't...

For years, many in the business community believed that tobacco and alcohol companies would eventually break into the marijuana market. Now it seems that prediction is finally playing out. Constellation Brands, the US distributor of Corona, Modelo, and Svedka Vodka, as well as the world's...

You could call it mother's little helper. A new survey found that 20 percent of parents use pot. Emma Cunningham is one of them. She's mom to 10-year-old Julian and 12-year-old Dylan. Keeping up with them isn't easy, so she says to stay on her game she uses marijuana — regularly — and she...

Chances are that you'd struggle to find an industry within the U.S. that's growing at a faster and more consistent pace than legal marijuana. Colorado, one of the eight states that's legalized recreational and medical cannabis, and the first state to sell adult-use weed, saw combined sales of...

80% of Tennesseans think marijuana, in some form, should be legal. That's according to a May 2017 poll by Vanderbilt University. Will 2018 be the year lawmakers approve medical cannabis? FOX13 discovered the winds of change are blowing on Capitol Hill. Tennessee House Speaker Beth Harwell...

Marijuana proponents in Missouri say the state is ready to legalize pot for medical purposes, but they weren't as eager to support a blanket legalization of the plant. And the Show-Me State can benefit from missing the hits taken by states like California and Colorado with more progressive...