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Eighty-one-year-old grandmother Margaret "Peg" Holcomb is still in a huff after state police and the National Guard deployed ground troops and a helicopter at her Amherst home and chopped down the 6-foot-tall marijuana plant growing out back with her raspberries. "It's ridiculous," Holcomb...

If medical marijuana isn't already the law in your state, there's probably a ballot initiative coming to your polling station or a bill working its way through your legislature that would make it so. More importantly, the majority of Americans already have the legal right to seek out the drug to...

If medical marijuana isn't already the law in your state, there's probably a ballot initiative coming to your polling station or a bill working its way through your legislature that would make it so. More importantly, the majority of Americans already have the legal right to seek out the drug to...

Some fear an onslaught of big business - and competition that could wipe them out. Hezekiah Allen is a third-generation marijuana farmer in this Northern California county, where the cool coastal fog pours off the Pacific Ocean, coaxing pot plants to heights of 20 feet. The executive...

Aiming to legalize marijuana in Massachusetts through a November ballot question, the "Yes on 4" campaign launched a television ad featuring retired Boston cop Tom Nolan. "Question 4 requires strict product labeling and childproof packaging and bans advertising directed at kids," said Nolan...

A sense of certainty that recreational, random marijuana use will be legalized, regulated and taxed in California after next month's election lies behind the millions of dollars invested so far in Proposition 64, which would allow adults to grow, buy and possess pot. No more medical marijuana...

Phoenix - This November, Arizonans will vote on whether to approve recreational marijuana. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about Prop 205. If Prop 205 is approved, when can recreational marijuana sales start? March 1, 2018. Where could recreational marijuana be sold...

Ganja. Pot. Weed. Mary Jane. Cannabis. These are the many names we know marijuana by. It might be illegal but it's also cheap and some even claim that it's healthy. So why is it illegal in the first place? Until 1985, all forms of cannabis-hashish, ganja and bhang were legally sold in India...

Even the most upstanding marijuana dispensaries in the city of Los Angeles aren't fully legit. They're tolerated under voter-approved Proposition D, which gives limited legal immunity to 135 or fewer collectives. Otherwise, pot shops are 100 percent illegal in this here town. That's a problem...

Seattle - They were all out of Super Lemon Haze at Dockside Cannabis, so those looking for an agreeable alternative had to seek out the shop's "bud tender" for help selecting from the kaleidoscope of products. Among the options: the sticky orange-flecked flowers from the artisanal Vashon...

When Lou Weaver picked out a property on Tudor Road for a future pot retail shop, he thought it was a safe distance from a nearby church. His measurement found the walking distance exceeded the required separation distance between pot shops and protected areas. Then this spring, after...

Petersburg voters on Tuesday will be deciding whether to allow commercial marijuana sales and importing pot into the borough for sale. Supporters of prohibition don't want the new industry or increased drug use in the borough, while opponents say pot sales should be done out in the open...

Oakland officials deadlocked Tuesday on a controversial proposal to require cannabis businesses to hand over money and power to the city, following an acrimonious public hearing at City Hall. The plan by Council members Desley Brooks, Larry Reid and Noel Gallo would require all pot businesses...

A sense of certainty that marijuana use will be legalized, regulated and taxed in California after next month's election lies behind the millions of dollars invested so far in Proposition 64, which would allow adults to grow, buy and possess pot. No more medical marijuana ruses. The sense of...

Victoria city council put the final stamp on their new pot shop bylaw at Thursday night's council meeting. Among the new requirements now in effect, all medical marijuana retailers need to be rezoned, a process that comes with a $7,500 fee, and they'll need to obtain a business license, a...

Palmer - Superior Court Judge David Zwink denied expedited proceedings Monday and stayed consideration of two marijuana lawsuits filed in early September against the Matanuska-Susitna Borough by marijuana business owners. The plaintiffs oppose a citizen-driven proposition on the ballot that asks...

As Yakima County officials plan to enforce a ban on all pot businesses in unincorporated areas of the county, marijuana processors and producers are unifying in an effort to stay in operation. Last weekend, 23 processor and producers gathered to discuss forming a growers association and begin...

A sense of certainty that recreational marijuana use will be legalized, regulated and taxed in California after next month's election lies behind the millions of dollars invested so far in Proposition 64, which would allow adults to grow, buy and possess pot. No more medical marijuana ruses...

Washington - District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to double the amount of medical marijuana that qualified city residents can buy each month. Bowser announced Wednesday that she will propose allowing patients to buy 4 ounces of pot a month, rather than 2 ounces. The regulatory...

Washington - District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to double the amount of medical marijuana that qualified city residents can buy each month. Bowser announced Wednesday that she will propose allowing patients to buy 4 ounces of pot a month, rather than 2 ounces. The regulatory...