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A cousin to roses, strawberries, hops and nettles, cannabis is an annual flowering plant with environmental impacts that are as contested as its benefits. Some experts believe cannabis plants need a lot of water to grow, while others dispute those claims. Meanwhile, neighbors of cannabis...

San Juan Bautista residents and officials expressed their thoughts about the city allowing cultivation, sales and delivery of cannabis at a joint meeting of the City Council and Planning Commission Wednesday night at City Hall. Concerns ranged from wanting more time to consider it to comments on...

Marijuana may be legal in Washington and Oregon, but police continue to bust illegal marijuana operations that are not licensed by the state. The latest numbers from the Washington State Patrol show that 89 illegal marijuana growing operations were shut down in Washington over the past year...

Cleveland City Council voted 15-1 Monday night to adopt zoning legislation that will allow state-licensed medical marijuana cultivators, processors, retail dispensaries and testing laboratories to operate in limited zones throughout the city. Councilwoman Dona Brady was the lone dissenting...

The rugged, mountainous terrain of unincorporated Santa Clara County has long hidden clandestine cannabis fields, and officials this week made it clear that despite the passage of Proposition 64, they’re still illegal. County supervisors have approved a 45-day moratorium on marijuana growing...

Thurston County Commissioners pondered their next step in regulating marijuana operations in the county on Wednesday, especially in the Grand Mound area where a number of operations are licensed or under review. Currently, the county has a set of interim regulations in place that are set to...

Medical marijuana growers and providers would be permitted to operate in certain industrial and commercial areas of the city, under a plan discussed Tuesday by the Battle Creek City Commission. In a Commission workshop session at City Hall, members and the public looked over maps and plans...

A manufacturer of edibles and a cooperative are looking to open Port Hueneme's first medical marijuana operations. YiLo, which has marijuana operations in Arizona, has applied to make its cannabis-infused food and drink products at what is currently a public works facility for the city. In...

Merced County residents no longer face misdemeanor criminal charges for small amounts of marijuana, but sheriff's deputies continue chopping down thousands of marijuana plants each year hoping no blood will be shed at large operations run by criminal organizations. "The reason we are so...

Sacramento police detectives serving a search warrant at a Land Park home Tuesday made a potentially explosive discovery — a "very sophisticated" hash oil lab, authorities said. Such illegal operations typically involve using butane to extract hash oil from marijuana plants and create a...

Cincinnati city leaders gave the green light to local medical marijuana operations on Wednesday. The city of Cincinnati cleared the way for the project by changing city zoning restrictions. Under the ordinance passed Tuesday, the city cleared the way only for businesses wishing to apply to...

Five companies interested in bringing medical marijuana operations to Youngstown will be presenting their plans to Youngstown City Council on Monday. The presentations will be Monday, May 15, 2017, starting at 4:30 p.m. in the council caucus room on the sixth floor of Youngstown City Hall...

On Dec. 20, recent changes to Michigan's medicinal cannabis laws will take effect. Passed this fall, House Bills 4209, 4827 and 4210 (now, Public Acts 281-283 of 2016) clarify the voter-approved use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. (While the Legislature uses the term "marihuana," the...

A Brampton councillor wants the city to clamp down on licensed marijuana grow operations in residential neighbourhoods. "Even though there are legal marijuana grow operations happening in residential communities, the municipality has no legislative authority to inspect them for safety and...

Justin Trudeau campaigned for "Real Change" and included many platforms differentiating him from the Conservative Party's message. One real and big change proposal included legalizing adult-use cannabis in Canada. Citizens in Nanaimo believe this campaign issue helped elect Liberal Party leader...

A citizen petition to ask voters whether commercial marijuana operations should be banned outside city limits in the Kenai Peninsula Borough is now in the hands of the Borough Assembly. The petition has received sufficient signatures to be certified. Now the Assembly has two options - they...

Steamboat Springs - The Routt County Board of Commissioners will conduct the second in a series of public hearings Aug. 8 regarding the possibility of lifting a moratorium and allowing marijuana growing operations in rural areas of the county. The BOC has no intention of lifting the ban on...

Carbondale - The Garfield County town of Carbondale is looking to lower the town's cap for marijuana grow operations in hopes of addressing complaints about the smell. The Glenwood Springs Post Independent reports that the Carbondale Board of Trustees has voted to cut back on the number of...

Los Angeles, California - Notis Global Inc., a pioneer in the worldwide hemp and CBD oil industry, specializing in cultivation, production and consulting, along with its subsidiary EWSD I, LLC, announced today that it has signed a purchase agreement for the acquisition of slightly more than 115...

Okanogan County appears to be close to having its first new zoning code in 38 years, now that the county's planning commissioners have made their final changes to sections regulating nightly rentals and marijuana operations. The commissioners have also made changes to the requirements for...