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Lawmakers overhauled the rules for recreational marijuana this week, but their changes are raising concerns about legal challenges and whether communities will get enough tax revenue to cover the cost of regulating the new pot industry. The legislation, which is awaiting Gov. Charlie Baker's...

As the legalization of recreational marijuana sales in Maine nears, a legislative panel has spent months pondering the best way to tax pot to bring in state revenue, fund regulatory enforcement and discourage the illicit market. In November, legalization of recreational marijuana was...

As the legalization of recreational marijuana sales in Maine nears, a legislative panel has spent months pondering the best way to tax pot to bring in state revenue, fund regulatory enforcement and discourage the illicit market. In November, legalization of recreational marijuana was...

The State's Marijuana Conference Committee wants to nearly double the taxes on recreational marijuana to 20 percent, a compromise between lawmakers who want to honor the rate specified in the ballot question of 12 percent, and those who want a substantial increase. The report by the...

Locally sourced bat guano and other manure-based fertilizers will power Erich Pearson’s biodynamic pot farm outside the city of Sonoma, which seeks to harness the forces of the earth, the cosmos and the free market. Craft cannabis is becoming a cousin to craft beer in Sonoma County, and the...

More than two weeks after blowing their self-imposed deadline to create a marijuana bill, state representatives and senators reached a compromise that would tax pot by as much as 20 percent. A committee of three state reps and three state senators had been working to merge House and Senate...

There's one bummer question haunting all the marijuana businesses popping up between British Columbia and Newfoundland. How much do Canucks like weed, eh? A year before recreational cannabis is expected to become legal in Canada, there's an explosion in companies cultivating the stuff. At...

Patagonia is best known for making technical mountain clothing from materials like nylon, wool, Gore-Tex, and down. Starting this August, however, the company is launching a whole line of work clothing based around hemp, an easy-to-grow and durable alternative to cotton. Imagine the sort of garb...

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...

The relationship America's Baby Boomer generation has with marijuana cannot be explained by teenage infatuation, followed by early adulthood ambition, followed finally by later-life acceptance, says Brookings Institution senior fellow John Hudak. "I think that one of the important things to...

Behind closed doors, Massachusetts lawmakers are scrambling to change the new marijuana law. The main questions are how many changes they plan to make and how big they go in overhauling or tweaking the voter-approved law. A team of negotiators from the Massachusetts House and Senate has been...

Differences between the House and Senate marijuana bills are being ironed out this week on Beacon Hill. Both chambers last week passed their own bills calling for changes the recreational marijuana law passed by voters last November. Now a six-member conference committee made up of House and...

Recent surveys have found that a majority of Thousand Oaks residents favor the city reversing its ban on medical marijuana dispensaries and deliveries. The City Council will consider doing so at its meeting Tuesday night. The council currently prohibits all medical and nonmedical commercial...

A majority of Americans want the Trump administration to leave state marijuana laws alone. Seventy-six percent of American adults want President Trump to leave state marijuana laws as they are, according to a new poll from Survey USA. Reform group Marijuana Majority commissioned the poll...

The House and Senate have staked out their positions on changes to the voter-approved marijuana legalization law and both branches appear primed to finally debate the issue this week and hand the divergent bills off to a conference committee. Rep. Mark Cusack, the House co-chair of the...

Paging Grover Norquist: Antitax anxiety has broken out on Beacon Hill, with some Democratic lawmakers suddenly professing concern about raising taxes on recreational marijuana as part of a needed set of reforms to the state's new pot law. A proposal to levy a 28 percent tax on marijuana sales...

Cannabis consumers are frequently affiliated with lazy, unsuccessful and apathetic labels. But, contrary to the popular stereotype new research suggests they are in fact among the most satisfied and successful among us. The study, conducted by market researchers BDS Analytics, surveyed...

Members of the President Donald Trump's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis will hold their first meeting today. The Commission is tasked with studying "ways to combat and treat the scourge of drug abuse, addiction, and the opioid crisis" – the latter of which was...

A new study, that claims to be the first of its kind, found cannabis consumers are "among the most well-adjusted and successful of American adults." The study by BDS Analytics compared people in three categories: "Consumers" (people who consumed cannabis products in the past ), "Acceptors"...

Less than a year after Massachusetts voters approved legalizing marijuana and taxing it at a rate of 12 percent, lawmakers already seek a larger take of the dealer's cut. In shifting marijuana from decriminalized to legal status, voters permitted a maximum tax of 12 percent on sales of the...