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Oregon's retail marijuana program has raked in at least $54.5 million in tax revenue since its inception, the state Department of Revenue announced Monday. Sales, tallied in the agency's report, came between Jan. 4 and Nov. 30. Within the tax region that includes the Columbia Gorge, Central...

Humboldt County's top cannabis-growing regions were unanimous in their opposition to California's second attempt to legalize nonmedical marijuana through Proposition 64 in November. But unlike the first legalization attempt in 2010 with Proposition 19, Humboldt County's population centers were...

Attention politicians who oppose medical marijuana: Florida voters supported the issue more than they supported most of you in November. The medical-marijuana group Florida for Care wanted to drive that message home on Tuesday by releasing an analysis showing the breadth of popularity for the...

President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to be attorney general of the United States rightly has proponents of marijuana legalization troubled. Sessions, who at an April congressional hearing remarked that "good people don't smoke marijuana," and joked in the...

Arkansas voters approved medical marijuana earlier this month and the governor says he's open to seeing if the voter-approved tax structure should be changed in January's legislative session. Speaking to reporters at the state Capitol on Monday, Governor Asa Hutchinson said he hasn't yet made up...

One vote - that's how little separates the pro- and anti-Proposition 64 voter tallies in Trinity County. Voters in neighboring Shasta County, however, shot down Proposition 64 - but barely. The Shasta County elections clerk's unofficial tally shows Proposition 64 failing by a margin of 52...

Cambridge and Braintree, Mass. - One ride on Boston's Red Line subway is enough to span the spectrum of Massachusetts's mixed feelings about legalizing recreational marijuana. In Boston's Harvard Square, where the smell of pot in places wafts through the streets, Cambridge residents are...

Los Angeles — Some California medical marijuana users are getting a tax break. State officials announced Thursday that certain purchases of medical cannabis are now exempt from sales taxes, under the law approved by voters this month that legalized recreational pot in California. Under the...

It's in the history books, folks. Arkansas is the first state in the Bible belt to pass medical marijuana - or cannabis, as its proponents prefer it be referred to. However, it will take several months for the new law to take place and allow for qualifying patients to buy the drug. When...

Voters in four states across the country approved ballot measures Nov. 8 to legalize the recreational use of marijuana: California, Maine, Nevada and Massachusetts. That brings the total number of states in the U.S. where recreational marijuana use is allowed to seven. However, many of those...

Congratulations Massachusetts, we just passed one of the worst pot bills in the country. Now what? Plenty. Our Beacon Hill leaders should do what they didn't do in the first place, which is steer this runaway train down the right track. The Yes on 4 campaign successfully tapped into...

A fractious and consequential presidential election can obscure all other news, but Texans also should take note of a pivotal night when marijuana gained legal ground in a big way. Voters in California, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine approved it for recreational use, doubling the number of...

This is huge. Initiatives to legalize recreational marijuana were on the ballots of five states Tuesday, and medical marijuana initiatives were on the ballots of four more. As of 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, three states had legalized recreational pot and it was leading in one more. All four states...

Springfield - Mayor Domenic J. Sarno has reached a new agreement with a company planning to open a medical marijuana dispensary in East Springfield, removing a prior clause that would have given the business the exclusive license in the city. In allowing more sites, however, the company...

Springfield - Mayor Domenic J. Sarno has reached a new agreement with a company planning to open a medical marijuana dispensary in East Springfield, removing a prior clause that would have given the business the exclusive license in the city. In allowing more sites, however, the company...

The potential impact of Proposition 64 and legalized recreational marijuana in California was driven home by more than 50 city and county measures that set rules for taxing, regulating and governing the pot trade at a community level. Voters in diverse regions across California overwhelmingly...

Voters on Tuesday night appeared to have soundly defeated a measure written by marijuana growers to regulate the cannabis industry in the county, opposing the initiative by 65.4 percent to 34.6 as of midnight, with 19.8 percent of ballots counted. Separately, voters seemed likely to...

Yesterday Nevada voters, who approved medical marijuana by a margin of nearly 2 to 1 in 2000, finally decided to legalize marijuana for recreational use as well. With 46 percent of precincts reporting, the state's legalization initiative, Question 2, is favored by 54 percent of voters, and ABC...

Phoenix - Arizonans were rejecting the ballot proposition that would legalize marijuana use in the state. Proposition 205 was losing 54 percent to 46 percent in early statewide voting. The vote on Proposition 205 comes six years after Arizonans narrowly agreed to allow those with certain...

Voters in Bend approved the city's first sales tax, a 3 percent tax on recreational marijuana. Madras and La Pine voters also approved 3 percent sale taxes on pot after bans on marijuana failed. Right now, there is a 25 percent state sales tax on recreational marijuana, but that will drop...