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A record 64 percent of Americans believe that marijuana should be legal for recreational consumption, according to a recent Gallup national poll. That figure marks the highest point since the group started polling on the topic back in 1969. This shouldn't come as much of a surprise: With the...

Denver (October 26, 2017) - Five years ago this November, Colorado citizens voted to pass Amendment 64, the legislative act which legalized adult-use marijuana in the Centennial State. In recognition of this milestone, the Cannabis Business Alliance (CBA) has issued a release commenting on the...

Cory Sharp of Moses Lake, Wash., has a problem, and it's a big one. He has as much as 80,000 pounds of hemp seed from a 75-acre crop he planted in June. He'd like to crush them for their oil, but no facility exists in Washington for that purpose. He can't cart them across state lines, or into...

Between November 2016 and May 2017, Jonathan Fruchter, a 37-year-old Navy veteran, was receiving care at a post-traumatic stress disorder inpatient clinic with the Lyons New Jersey VA Medical Center. He spent his days in meetings that started with a check-in meeting every morning at 8 a.m., then...

A group of ten U.S. House members is pushing the Trump administration to begin researching medical marijuana's potential benefits for military veterans struggling to cope with war wounds. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) "is uniquely situated to pursue research on the impact of...

It looks like Town Meeting will be able to vote on whether to permanently ban the sale of recreational marijuana in town. The Board of Selectmen Monday night unanimously approved a request to have Town Manager Andrew Flanagan draw up two questions for a Jan. 29, 2018 special town meeting...

Former NBA commissioner David Stern may have had serious influence on the league for 30 years, but that's not the case anymore – at least when it comes to marijuana. In a documentary produced by Uninterrupted, titled "The Concept of Cannabis," Stern said he believes marijuana "probably should...

A record-high percentage of Americans – 64 percent – support marijuana legalization, and that total for the first time includes a majority of Republicans, a new Gallup poll released Wednesday finds. The poll found that 51 percent of Republicans support marijuana legalization, a figure up nine...

For decades, the federal government has imposed strict regulations and sanctions on the use of marijuana. Yet, since 1996, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have acted on their own accord to develop programs that regulate the access to and sale of medical marijuana in explicit...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned Thursday that federal laws against marijuana still exist and could be used to crack down on state efforts to legalize the narcotic. In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt on Thursday, Sessions was hesitant to say what he and the Trump administration plan...

U.S Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a longtime opponent of marijuana legalization. But in an interview on Thursday he was guarded about the Trump administration's plans to push back against the growing number of states that are ending cannabis prohibition. "I can't comment on the existence...

Town officials are seeking to charge recreational marijuana sellers the "local tax option" permitted by state law. The revised Massachusetts recreational marijuana law, passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Charlie Baker in July, calls for recreational marijuana to be taxed 17 to 20...

A medical marijuana dispensary could be in the works for southern Calvert County, county staff confirmed this week, as they sought guidance Tuesday from the Board of County Commissioners on zoning and planning regulations for prospective cannabis facilities in the county. Commissioner Pat...

Marion is being eyed as a possible site for a medical marijuana dispensary, though city council members are debating whether to allow it. Marion City Council members voiced their thoughts Monday on a proposed medical marijuana dispensary that was brought to the attention of some council...

It will be at least a year before Boca Raton reconsiders allowing medical marijuana dispensaries. The city council banned the shops from opening within city limits Tuesday. The council was concerned the city is not able to regulate how many dispensaries can exist, based on current state...

A city councilor in Halifax said he avoids use the term "marijuana" after discovering the history of the word. That councilor, Shawn Cleary, chairs a committee dealing with implementing cannabis regulation within Nova Scotia as legalization approaches in July 2018. "It was intentional to...

At a Special Town Meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 24, Newbury voters rejected a temporary moratorium through 2018 on recreational marijuana cultivation and retail businesses. The moratorium was proposed to give town officials time to work on legal, planning, and public safety issues. Voters...

Last month, the Dallas County district attorney charged more than 400 individuals with possession of less than two ounces of marijuana each. That means well over 400 people could have remained in the community but were instead arrested and put into jail. Some surely lost jobs, others surely had...

Kern County banned commercial cannabis Tuesday. Four of the five county supervisors said they did not want to be party to the permitting and regulation of an industry that wields such a destructive impact on the communities they represent. "The vast majority of the pot shops in the greater...

When it comes to the markets' fastest growing industries, investors would have a hard time finding a group of stocks growing quicker than marijuana. According to a report from Marijuana Business Daily, the U.S. legal-weed industry is expected to grow by an aggregate of 300% between 2016 and 2021...