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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...

California officials have ordered an entire city to evacuate as "conditions have worsened" in the wildfires that have killed 23 people. All residents of Calistoga were directed to leave the area on Wednesday evening, Napa County officials said. About 60 prison inmates have joined...

Ordinances that would allow medical marijuana facilities in Kingsley went through weeks of review but village officials remain reluctant to vote on the issue. Village board members met Monday night and continued reviewing a draft police power ordinance that would allow medical marijuana...

Atascadero residents likely won't be allowed to buy marijuana from a local dispensary or start their own commercial grow operations anytime soon. City officials Tuesday night continued to take a cautious approach to allowing commercial marijuana activities as they draft policies in response...

The Justice Department under Attorney General Jeff Sessions has effectively blocked the Drug Enforcement Administration from taking action on more than two dozen requests to grow marijuana to use in research, one of a number of areas in which the anti-drug agency is at odds with the Trump...

Two more medical-marijuana businesses have joined seven already licensed by the state, and another three are in the works, as the potentially lucrative industry continues to develop. The Florida Department of Health this week issued licenses to Tornello Landscape, also known as “3 Boys Farm,”...

Hopes of those in Millbrae looking to capitalize on the commercial marijuana industry may be going up in smoke as embracing the budding industry does not seem a high priority for city officials. Residents poured into City Hall with signs opposing the recently legalized drug during a...

State health officials have set a tentative timeline for establishing a medical marijuana industry in North Dakota. The Health Department is asking those interested in being a manufacturer or a distributor to notify the agency by July 28. That will give officials a better idea about interest...

Hempstead County officials say dozens of jobs may be on the way as companies are looking to locate medical cannabis cultivation centers in the area. Steve Montgomery, the Mayor of Hope, said he is not surprised by the state's vote for medical marijuana. "It was just something that was...

St. Augustine officials plan to weigh in on a proposal to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. St. Johns County Sheriff David Shoar recently voiced support for the movement – led mainly by a nurse practitioner – to allow law enforcement officials in St. Johns County to...

Pennsylvania health officials are defending their decision to award a coveted medical marijuana grower's permit to a firm whose affiliate in Minnesota had two former executives charged this year with smuggling a half-million dollars worth of the drug across state lines. Pennsylvania Medical...

A graffiti-plastered garage was once a fallout shelter during the Cold War, but officials have tapped it as the perfect place for its potential next life: a medical marijuana growhouse. "What you're looking at is the future home of Bunker Botanicals," said the company president, Geoff Whaling...

In a long-awaited decision, an administrative law judge Tuesday called for the state to issue two new licenses to medical marijuana operators, saying competing businesses --- which lost out to another operator selected by Florida health officials in 2015 --- were virtually tied...

Health officials in Colorado have launched a new call center for people who have health questions related to marijuana use. Pharmacists, nurses and toxicology experts from Denver Health's Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center will be available to answer questions 24 hours a day, seven days a...

Officials valued the drugs at more than $33,000. Rather than the dead inside a hearse, Border Patrol agents found marijuana inside a closed casket over the weekend, officials said. Willcox Boarder Patrol agents stopped a hearse near Tombstone and found 67 pounds of marijuana inside a casket...

Kissimmee – The parade of horribles seems endless for local government officials grappling with an anticipated "green rush" in Florida after voters in November overwhelmingly approved a measure legalizing medical marijuana for hundreds of thousands of patients with debilitating conditions...

Denver - North Carolina wants to know whether marijuana could one day replace tobacco as a cash crop. Louisiana is wondering how pot holds up in high humidity. And Washington state has questions about water supplies for weed. This past week Colorado agriculture officials briefed officials...

More than a month after attesting that two businesses trying to get a medical marijuana license in Southwest Florida had reached an agreement, state health officials have asked an administrative law judge to once again take over the case. State health officials on Friday told Administrative...

Lawmakers have gone back and forth on whether to delay implementation of recreational marijuana in the state. They decided this week not to delay it. However, lawmakers who are ambivalent are not alone. Administrators and elected officials in Boxford, Middleton and Topsfield now find themselves...

Boston - Massachusetts officials aren't expecting any quick financial windfall from the state's new recreational marijuana law. State Treasurer Deb Goldberg and Revenue Commissioner Michael Heffernan told lawmakers at a budget hearing on Monday not to anticipate any revenues from recreational...