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1st time growing, indoor, 48x48x80 tent & LEDs. Looking forward to getting my white widow seeds. Once they're germinated (using paper towel technique) and I pop them into soil, how important is the pot size? I purchased some 5-Gal growing pots. Can I put the sprouted seeds into those, or do I...

Marijuana sales might be allowed in Fircrest as early as next year. In a 4-3 vote Tuesday night, the City Council rejected a planning commission recommendation that the city ban all marijuana business. The vote signaled the council's intent to allow pot stores within the city's 1.5 square...

The smell of unsmoked "nuggets" wafted through the air outside the State House Thursday, as a small group of pot enthusiasts who had gathered to celebrate marijuana being legal brazenly gave away portions of the leafy drug. When a man passed Rachel Ramone Donlan a clear bag of pot seeds, and...

Members of the Ceres City Council signaled on Monday that they want an outright ban on the outdoor growing of marijuana in the city limits following the passage of Proposition 64 that legalizes recreational marijuana for adults. The council was presented with a number of policy decisions now...

The federal government released their final report on legalizing and regulating marijuana use in Canada on Tuesday. The Trudeau government is expected to legalize the use of marijuana in the spring and provincial and municipal regulations will be determined after that. There are over 3,000...

Publicly traded stocks of Canadian marijuana companies headed higher Tuesday after a federal task force issued recommendations on the sale of recreational pot. On the TSX, shares of Canada's largest producer, Canopy Growth – the first pot company with a market capitalization above $1 billion...

A group representing a number of quasi-legal pot shops in the city of L.A. will throw its considerable weight behind a City Hall—sponsored effort to make those dispensaries fully legal. The organization, the United Cannabis Business Alliance, is scrapping its own measure, which already had...

Cannabis can be legally sold by medical marijuana dispensaries in cities that allow it. But the weed that comes in the back door has long been subject to murky regulations, at best – and producers often risk daunting jail time. Under California's Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act...

Denver - Hoping to preserve its marijuana law under the next president, Colorado is planning a slate of legislation designed to crack down on pot that is grown legally but then sold on the black market. The goal is to cut down on complaints that Colorado's liberal allowances for growing pot...

Toronto - Recreational marijuana users who worked hard to elect Prime Minister Justin Trudeau now feel "cheated" by his support of a police crackdown on storefront dispensaries, a cannabis industry spokesperson says. Abi Roach, a director with the Cannabis Friendly Business Association, said...

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister wants the federal government to postpone legislation to legalize marijuana. The federal Liberals have promised the law in the spring, but Pallister says he and some other premiers have concerns that there are still many details to work out. Pallister says...

A 50-year-old nursery business in Winter Garden will begin delivery of locally grown medical marijuana on Friday, with plans to open its first dispensary soon in Ivanhoe Village. Knox Nursery won the state's competition to be the medical pot grower and dispenser for the Central Florida region...

The Albany City Council on Monday was not able to bring to a close the issue of how to regulate legal recreational marijuana. In fact, a general malaise surrounds the issue among most council members. But instead of making a decision, the council decided to commute the issue to the Wednesday...

Last year, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr was crippled by back pain so severe he missed half of his team's record-breaking regular season. He was so desperate for relief, he told the Warriors Insider podcast on Friday (as picked up by ESPN), that he even tried smoking pot. "A lot of...

When it comes to doing business, Leaf isn't discrete. The friendly 25-year-old saunters around Dolores Park in San Francisco with a big teddy bear on his shoulder and a ring of plastic marijuana leaves around his neck. You can't miss him. Selling weed is his game, one he won't quit anytime...

Fines are quadrupling for businesses operating without a licence in Vancouver as city staff struggle to shut down unlicensed pot shops. City councillors voted Wednesday to increase fines to $1,000 a day, from $250 a day, for unlicensed businesses and licensed operators who fail to comply with...

The key recommendation of the panel charged with outlining the framework for Canada's legal marijuana regime is that the system should be geared toward getting rid of the $7-billion-a year black market. Sources familiar with the report, which is expected to be made public Dec. 21, say all the...

Jason Elsasser surveys his two-acre patch of windswept sand outside the California town of Desert Hot Springs, and sees a fortune. "This whole area back here," he says, pointing to a blank desert plot dotted with rocks and shrubs, "is going to be a 22,000-sq ft, state-of-the-art greenhouse that...

In the greater scope of important issues, Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin's light-hearted quip about legalized recreational marijuana doesn't rate a high place on the ladder. While Galvin's comment may seem harmless enough, though, state officials such as himself would do well...

Inland city leaders are starting to discuss how to respond to California voters' Nov. 8 approval of recreational marijuana. But wait, some residents may say, don't most cities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties already ban growing and selling pot? They do, but many of those bans...