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Beacon Hill leaders have abruptly canceled tomorrow's anticipated vote to revamp the state's legalized marijuana law amid what House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo called "procedural" issues and unspecified concerns over the bill's language. The bill faced blistering criticism from legalized pot...

In a sweeping rewrite of the voter-passed marijuana legalization measure, House leaders will advance a bill Wednesday that would more than double the total tax on recreational pot and give municipal officials – instead of local voters – the power to ban cannabis shops and farms. The...

Amid a drug crisis that kills 91 people in the U.S. each day, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked Congress to help roll back protections that have shielded medical marijuana dispensaries from federal prosecutors since 2014, according to a letter made public this week. Those legal...

Colorado is often cited as the bellwether of America becoming a marijuana nation. With our legalization of medical marijuana in 2000, and of recreational marijuana in 2012, we helped open the floodgates to what has become a national movement. After the November elections, in which four...

There may be a retail apocalypse going on, but you wouldn't know it from Washington state's retail sales in 2016. Taxable sales from retailers in this state increased 6 percent to $63.2 billion in 2016, according to the state Department of Revenue. And the type of store that grew sales the...

Colorado has the highest average elevation of any state, but it also has the lowest unemployment rate. While the national unemployment rate dropped to 4.3 percent in May, the lowest since 2001, Colorado's jobless rate is the nation's lowest at 2.3 percent. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper...

A proposed change to Leni's Law means users of medical marijuana derivative cannabidiol (CBD) oil in Alabama could be allowed to buy oils with more THC in them. THC and CBD are both cannabis derivatives. THC is the psychoactive component known for giving users a high and is used for pain...

Americans like their marijuana in the morning. More cannabis consumers in the United States smoke a joint within an hour of waking up than cannabis consumers in any other country, according to a new report released Wednesday, May 24, by the Global Drug Survey. The 2017 survey of global drug...

Medical marijuana legalization is causing patients to ditch their prescription pills for pot, a trend researchers say could save Medicaid more than $1 billion if legalization is implemented federally. A recent study published in Health Affairs shows marijuana legalization is sparking a...

Dear Pot Lawyer, I pay a lot of tax for this weed I've been buying! Are we doing this right? I think we are, but it's complicated, and smarter people than me have strong opinions on how it ought to work. These opinions differ on big-picture questions, like who should pay the tax (you, or...

Aclara Research, a leader in the development of patient and consumer insights within the medical cannabis industry, today released the results of The Illinois Medical Cannabis Patient Experience Study - the first of Illinois patients since the inception of the pilot program in 2012. The study...

Workers at McLane drive forklifts and load hefty boxes into trucks. The grocery supplier, which runs a warehouse in Colorado, needs people who will stay alert - but prospective hires keep failing drug screens."Some weeks this year, 90 percent of applicants would test positive for something,"...

Marijuana proponents on Friday launched a 2018 ballot drive to make Michigan the ninth state to legalize the recreational use of the drug and the first in the Midwest to do so. The initiative has the backing of state-based marijuana advocacy groups and a key national lobbying organization...

Medical marijuana laws have been enacted in 29 states and the District of Columbia, and 21 states have decriminalized marijuana in a variety of ways. Unthinkable even a decade ago, eight states and the District have made legal the use of recreational marijuana. In a June 2015 Franklin &...

Job applicants are testing positive for marijuana, cocaine, amphetamine and heroin at the highest rate in 12 years, according to a new report from Quest Diagnostics, a clinical lab that follows national employment trends. An analysis of about 10 million workplace drug screens from across the...

Workers at McLane drive forklifts and load hefty boxes into trucks. The grocery supplier, which runs a warehouse in Colorado, needs people who will stay alert – but prospective hires keep failing drug screens. "Some weeks this year, 90 percent of applicants would test positive for something,"...

Another month, another massive haul in tax revenue for Colorado marijuana sales. For the 10th month in a row, cannabis sales have exceeded $100 million in the first state in the nation to sell legal recreational cannabis. Sales tax revenue generated in Colorado for the month was just shy of...

It is time for politicians to put to rest the myth that cannabis is a gateway to the use of other controlled substances – a theory that is neither supported by modern science or empirical data. Over 60 percent of American adults acknowledge having tried cannabis, but the overwhelming majority...

People dependent on cocaine, opioids and other prescription drugs could ease out of their addictions with cannabis. It is time for politicians to put to rest the myth that cannabis is a gateway to the use of other controlled substances — a theory that is neither supported by modern science or...

The U.S. Sentencing Commission has released its overview of 2016. Marijuana accounts for close to a quarter of federal drug cases, but this overview found that cannabis consumers typically have less serious criminal histories than users of other drugs. Reading through the report, we noted five...