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Marijuana legalization is having a moment. What once seemed like an unlikely proposition is now catching serious steam. To date, 25 states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, while Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington state and D.C., have legalized recreational use...

Oregon medical marijuana dispensaries have sold an estimated $102 million in recreational cannabis since January, when the state imposed a 25 percent sales tax on pot. In the last six months the state has collected $25.5 million in sales tax revenue on those sales, and Brookings is looking to...

Marijuana abuse and dependency are becoming less common, even as states roll back restrictions on the use of the drug, according to a new federal report. In 2014, the number of Americans aged 12 and over meeting diagnostic criteria for marijuana abuse or dependency stood at 1.6 percent, a...

Based on a survey of over 500,000 US adults between 2002 and 2014, the study found that marijuana use rose from 10.4 percent of the population in 2002 to 13.3 percent in 2014 - from 21.9 million to 31.9 million. The number of daily or near-daily users was about 8.4 million in 2014, they...

Patrick Kennedy, a recovering drug addict, former Rhode Island congressman and member of the nation's most famous political family, is spearheading a national campaign to thwart legalization of recreational marijuana. Hezekiah Allen, a former Humboldt County marijuana farmer like his parents...

The price of pot is going down, way down, as more people launch large-scale industrial grow operations to supply the state's dispensaries and makers of weed-infused goodies. The precipitous declines of the past several months are likely to continue, say experts, resulting in massive changes...

Steamboat Springs - The Routt County Board of Commissioners agree they are likely months away from making a decision on whether or not to allow marijuana grow facilities in unincorporated areas of the county; however, they did vote unanimously Aug. 23 to put the question of establishing a 5...

Aurora, Colo. - An Aurora City Council committee gave the green light to a proposal raising the city's retail marijuana tax and dedicating the funds to support homeless services. The proposal would increase the tax from 5.75 percent to 7.75 percent at the same time the state tax drops from 10...

Salem, Ore. - Sales of recreational marijuana enjoyed a big boost in the two months since edible products have been allowed. Taxes from those sales jumped from about $3 million per month to more than $5 million per month, figures from the Oregon Department of Revenue showed Monday. The state...

New data from the state Department of Health confirms Hawaii County has nearly twice as many medical marijuana patients as Oahu, with about 11 percent living in Pahoa alone. On June 30, there were 6,101 patients residing on Hawaii Island, comprising 42 percent of the 14,492 patients statewide...

New data from the state Department of Health confirms Hawaii County has nearly twice as many medical marijuana patients as Oahu, with about 11 percent living in Pahoa alone. On June 30, there were 6,101 patients residing on Hawaii Island, comprising 42 percent of the 14,492 patients statewide...

Hemp has been called a plant of "major economic importance," as it grows like a weed, yet can be used in the production of food, personal care products, textiles, paper, and even plastic and construction materials. Valued since ancient times as a fiber source for textiles, the hemp industry...

Utahns are divided on the issue of legal medical marijuana, according to survey results released Thursday by the Utah Foundation. The poll, conducted in late February and early March of this year by Dan Jones and Associates, asked participants whether they agreed that "legalizing marijuana...

Utahns are divided on the issue of legal medical marijuana, according to survey results released Thursday by the Utah Foundation. The poll, conducted in late February and early March of this year by Dan Jones and Associates, asked participants whether they agreed that "legalizing marijuana...

According to a story in the Orange County Register, today's marijuana "is typically four times stronger than the marijuana of just a couple of decades ago." Reporter Brooke Edwards Staggs quotes Madeline Meier, a psychologist at Arizona State University, as saying that through the 1990s...

Here's a dramatic change: About 13 percent of the adults surveyed in a new Gallup poll said they currently use marijuana. Three years earlier, only 7 percent of respondents fessed up to getting high. That's a really dramatic change. If these numbers were completely true to reality, that would...

Two marijuana tax proposals are heading for the November ballot after the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors Tuesday agreed to do so. The board put its own tax measure on the ballot, while the grower-backed measure, the "Mendocino Heritage Initiative," was officially certified for the...

Jackson County residents may have the chance to vote on a marijuana sales tax - again. This time around, the proposed tax would be 3 percent on retail sales of recreational marijuana. In 2015, the Jackson County Board of Commissioners repealed a voter-approved tax of up to 25 percent on...

Increasingly, the stigma around cannabis appears to be disappearing. Look no further than what the Presidential candidates and people in the tech world have had to say. At best, they want it legalized; at worse, they don't have much of an opinion. But what about the average American? There...

Springfield - A City Council subcommittee has scheduled a meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 3, to review formal agreement reached between Mayor Domenic J. Sarno and the owners of a medical marijuana dispensary planned on Cottage Street in East Springfield. The council's Health and Human Services...