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Two men are behind bars after the Troup County Sheriff's Office says they were caught trafficking more than 150 pounds of high-grade marijuana. A press release from Sgt. Stewart Smith says Thursday night around 8:45 p.m., a deputy noticed a white tractor trailer passed a weigh station without...

Three teens are facing felony charges after marijuana was uncovered during three separate searches at homes in the northwest suburbs. Following complaints about drug activity in the area, the McHenry County sheriff's office opened a two-month investigation that led to the execution of search...

The leader of a Rastafarian church that operated a marijuana garden that figured in the Aug. 1 shooting of two Yuba County sheriff's deputies was among 18 people arrested Tuesday when the Sheriff's Office served search warrants at 12 alleged illegal marijuana growing sites in Yuba and Sacramento...

Since 2015, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has overseen a county with some form of legalized marijuana. And recently the plant has catapulted his office into the national spotlight. As regulations to launch Nevada's medical marijuana industry were hammered out in the 2013...

With her blond pixie haircut and black tailored skirt suits, attorney Jessica McElfresh represents the new face of California marijuana law: polished, professional, and regulation-oriented. Yet early on the morning of May 24, a SWAT team raided McElfresh's San Diego home, where she lived with...

Police spent three days searching for marijuana plants around Saratoga County last week, seizing 450 plants around the county. The Saratogas County Sheriff's Office was assisted by a State Police helicopter and state forest rangers as they pulled up mature plants found to be growing outside...

Oregon officials twice neglected to deliver key documents when The Oregonian/OregonLive sought to learn about a state-licensed day care operating in the home of a Portland marijuana entrepreneur. The search started July 10 with a public records request to the state Office of Child Care. It...

San Francisco's brand-new Office of Cannabis now has a director. On Aug. 28, longtime City Hall aide Nicole Elliott was appointed to head the newly established department, which was formalized by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on July 25. Elliott is now on the hook to deliver two...

San Francisco has tapped a veteran City Hall aide to head its new Office of Cannabis and create a permitting process for the industry – just as the Board of Supervisors contemplates a 45-day moratorium on new dispensaries. Nicole Elliott, who previously worked for Mayors Gavin Newsom and Ed...

Maybe you've seen them on Lincoln Road and Biscayne Boulevard, or did a double-take the first time you drove past one on Old Dixie Highway. With names like 420 Miami Doctor and Doc MJ, clinics that specialize in medical marijuana diagnoses are opening in strip malls and office buildings...

A father and son were released on bond out of Lake County Jail on Friday after being arrested Thursday on suspicion of operating a commercial-grade marijuana concentrate lab in a Lakeport office park. Jeffrey Shane Oliver, 50, and his son, Timothy Jeffrey Oliver, 20, both of Illinois, were...

San Francisco plans to hire the director of the new Office of Cannabis at cost of more than $200,000 next month after the Board of Supervisors approved its creation Tuesday. The Office of Cannabis, which will come under City Administrator Naomi Kelly, will decide who receives operating...

With legalized recreational marijuana sales fast approaching, San Francisco is set to create a new Office of Cannabis to handle cannabis permits and complaints and serve as a centralized resource for the public and businesses. The new office, part of the city administrator's office, would be...

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San Francisco is slated to approve the establishment of an Office of Cannabis on Tuesday, less than six months before the office will start approving permits for business owners to sell marijuana to adults for recreational use. Included in Mayor Ed Lee's budget proposal, the $700,000 office...

The call of Santa Rosa as a hub for legalized cannabis commerce is forcing longtime players in Sonoma County industrial real estate to adjust to the rush. "If you have a business and it is in zoning that allows for cannabis, you may not know if you can renew your lease," said Shawn Johnson...

Officials at the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Barack Obama wanted to take a more lenient stance on marijuana, with one former official telling HuffPost that staff pushed to ease federal prohibitions against the drug. But they never made that case directly to the public...

Andrew Freedman is moving on from his position as Colorado's Director of Marijuana Coordination, Governor John Hickenlooper announced on January 5. Freedman will still be involved with the cannabis industry and constructing policy: He's launching a consulting firm, Freedman & Koski LLC, which...

Maine adults likely will have to wait a little longer than expected to start using marijuana legally. Even if an anticipated recount on Question 1 doesn't change the results of the Nov. 8 election, the Attorney General's Office said Tuesday that it may not be legal for adults to use marijuana...

Omaha - You'll get to vote on whether to make marijuana legal in Nebraska two years from now, that's if one group has its way. It has now opened an office in Omaha that it will use to try to convince you, but at least one state lawmaker says that's going to be an uphill battle. Krystal...