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Osoyoos town council is expected to expedite a controversial bylaw concerning pot dispensaries this week. Council will be convening on Tuesday for a special meeting, which will include a staff recommendation to move the bylaw quickly forward to third reading. The bylaw, which saw first and...

Colorado leaped. Illinois crawled. And, to its social and fiscal detriment, Iowa is a stationary observer. Marijuana policy is, quite literally, all over the map. Illinois last week joined the eastern model, using decriminalization as the next cautious step toward reasonable pot policy. It's...

Once again, California voters will decide whether to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. They have previously rejected initiatives to do this, but while this year's Proposition 64 isn't perfect, it is a much more thoughtful proposal. It's time to say yes. Prop. 64 would allow adults...

This week Boston City Council President Michelle Wu suggested it ought to be legal for individuals to purchase and consume pot. But if Wu has her way it would be unacceptable for them to take their goodies home from the pot store in a plastic shopping bag. Yes, in the same week that Wu and...

Medical Marijuana for pets. It's become the latest trend - with more and more dog owners turning to Cannabis to help treat everything from their animal's pain to anxiety. Littleton resident Leslie Padzick is one of them. For the past few years, her aging Schipperke, Luca -now 12- has...

Oregon Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer sent a letter to Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk on Wednesday blasting him for a remark he made over using medical marijuana to treat veterans. "These wounded warriors should be treated with dignity, respect, and concern, and we should be helping them...

Sometime in the next year or two, marijuana will be legal for personal consumption in Canada. The federal government is currently working on the exact laws around this, but all indications so far point to it being produced, sold, and taxed much like alcohol, i.e. not sold to kids, sold through...

Boston City Council President Michelle Wu and Councilor Tito Jackson will formally endorse the state ballot push to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The move, to be announced at a State House event Wednesday morning, puts them directly at odds with Mayor Martin J. Walsh, who is helping...

You've seen fire sales. They happen when goods or real estate are discounted sharply after fire damages a store or a building. But the term has new meaning in rural Calaveras County, where the devastating Butte Fire swept through thousands of acres last year, the seventh-worst wildfire in...

Pot is everywhere in Miami. Its scent wafts from bus stops, floats through open windows, and cascades out from under lifeguard stands on the beach at night. Spend more than a week here and you will, at least once, wonder if the server delivering you overpriced cocktails is stoned out of his...

What happens in Vegas, has to happen in Vegas, guys. This week, the Nevada medical cannabis industry is reeling from the news that Nevada pot shops cannot serve the biggest patient-base in the world - Californians with a doctor's note. Only Californians with an official state medical pot ID...

What happens in Vegas, has to happen in Vegas, guys. This week, the Nevada medical cannabis industry is reeling from the news that Nevada pot shops cannot serve the biggest patient-base in the world - Californians with a doctor's note. Only Californians with an official state medical pot ID...

More than $140 million. That's how much tax revenue Colorado is expected to bring in from taxes on marijuana this year, according to the non-profit research organization, the Tax Foundation. The 2016 figure is likely to be four times that of taxes on alcohol in the state, the Tax Foundation...

Cannabis prohibition is supposed to be over in Oregon. But data from other states suggests the color of your skin changes the legality of marijuana. Studies in Washington and Colorado, which both legalized recreational marijuana in 2012, still show wide disparities in pot arrests of juveniles...

Imagine hundreds or thousands of Pueblo families using solar and wind energy to power growing areas in their yards or basements, where vegetables and other plants - including hemp - could be harvested year-round. Kelly Gelhoff and Meral Sarper do it all the time, and they predict that will be a...

Willie Nelson's latest entrepreneurial endeavor is ready to roll - literally. On Thursday, Nelson announced his line of weed, Willie's Reserve, would hit Washington shelves on Friday and Colorado marijuana shops in August. On Friday, Nelson's team tweeted from the Willie's Reserve Twitter...

Medical marijuana could be available to a select group of Florida patients as early as next week, after health officials gave the go-ahead for the state's first pot dispensary to begin distributing products. The Northwest Florida operation, known as "Trulieve," is one of six dispensing...

Hi I heard organically added fish extractments to the soil can help produce growth in the flowering process. I could give this a try, cause I have some left over fish guts I've kept in a bag. My question is, how do you add it to the soil in a pot? Do I grind up the fish and lather it in the...

Do I really have to pay $100 to work in recreational marijuana? YES, YOU REALLY DO. And you must pass a test and a criminal background check. If you conquer these three labors like a modern-day Heracles, you should be golden. Oregon recently followed Colorado's lead in requiring that weed...

Montevideo, Uruguay — Uruguay is home to the world's first government-regulated national marketplace for pot, so it's not surprising that growers have a competition for best marijuana. At the Cannabis Cup over the weekend, a panel of regional experts judged entries for aroma, flavor, effects...