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Last Friday, a week and a half after Denver voters approved an initiative allowing cannabis consumption in local businesses, the Colorado Department of Revenue's Liquor Enforcement Division announced that businesses it regulates are prohibited from participating in the pilot program. That means...

Boston - With 28 days until it becomes legal to grow marijuana in Massachusetts, some in the medical marijuana industry are concerned about the slow launch of a new industry without a regulatory scheme in place. Nicholas Vita, chief executive officer of Columbia Care, which holds three...

Boston - With 28 days until it becomes legal to grow marijuana in Massachusetts, some in the medical marijuana industry are growing concerned about the slow launch of a new industry without a regulatory scheme in place. Nicholas Vita, chief executive officer of Columbia Care, which holds three...

Lansing - Supporters and critics of Mayor Virg Bernero's proposed ordinance for home-based medical marijuana grow facilities will get their chance to sound off about it Thursday afternoon at City Hall. City Council's three-member Committee on Public Safety is expected to review the matter at...

Now that California has legalized recreational marijuana for adult use, it doesn't mean you can drop by your neighborhood store and pick up a pack of pre-rolls and enjoy a toke walking down the street. What are the new cannabis rules? Here are the do's and don'ts for Californians and those of...

At least temporarily, the Shelby County Commission put itself on the wrong side of history last week when it recorded a vote of 4-7 on the first of three readings of an ordinance to partially decriminalize cannabis. While the resulting vote was different from a positive vote from the Memphis...

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...

Californians voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana on Election Day. But nonmedical sales are still a ways away. Proposition 64 provides for over a dozen types of licenses issued to marijuana-selling dispensaries that allows them to cultivate, test, distribute, and sell bud...

If California's Proposition 64 to legalize recreational marijuana passes as expected on Nov. 8, Sonoma County now needs to seriously ask what it will do with all the cash it generates from cannabis cultivation and sales. Because while it may be considered legal on a state basis, marijuana...

This is an exciting time to be in drug policy. With five states (California, Arizona, Nevada, Maine, and Massachusetts) on the ballot to regulate recreational marijuana, we have the potential to have one-fifth of the population of the United States smoking legally in the coming year. Our sitting...

Lansing - Those eager to see City Council pass a medical marijuana ordinance for commercial medical marijuana provisioning centers - also known as dispensaries - will likely have to wait a few more months. An often frustrating process for city officials, business owners, neighborhood groups...

With all due respect to Taunton's City Council and Boston officials, their position against the legalization of marijuana is overly politically cautious and well-intentioned, but misses the points of their commitment to the public and the opportunity to be visionary leaders. Marijuana...

When thinking about how to cast your ballot on Question 4, to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana, consider the social justice implications of your vote. Don't buy the argument that "no one gets arrested for possession of marijuana" anymore. That's simply not true. More than 600 people are...

More than 50 percent of Americans changed their minds about intentions to smoke marijuana based on ramifications - or lack thereof - set forth by their state of residency, according to new research released at the American Public Health Association's 2016 Annual Meeting in Denver. Researchers...

Baton Rouge - The public forum where the LSU AgCenter will pitch its medical marijuana plan to potential investors is being moved to a larger location capable of seating up to 900 people. The forum, which is Oct. 28, will be in the Bo Campbell Auditorium on the LSU campus. It had been...

Baton Rouge - The public forum where the LSU AgCenter will pitch its medical marijuana plan to potential investors is being moved to a larger location capable of seating up to 900 people. The forum, which is Oct. 28, will be in the Bo Campbell Auditorium on the LSU campus. It had been...

Whether you grow your own marijuana, process the plant or run a cannabis shop, it's not like any other business. Conventional banking isn't possible. Tax credits and deductions aren't available. And investing in the new industry comes with significant risks. The Oregonian/OregonLive will...

At the world's largest cannabis "protestival," Seattle Hempfest August 2016, I spoke about the need for further reforms of federal and state laws regulating the use of marijuana. I pointed out that although pot is supposedly "legal" in Washington, there is still a certain social stigma attached...

Colorado voters approved a constitutional amendment in November 2012, making it the first American state to legalize recreational marijuana. Since January 2014, when the residents began legally buying marijuana, a billion—dollar—a—year legal marijuana industry has emerged (expected to surpass $1...

Just as it approaches the two-year mark since voters approved medicinal marijuana, a pair of revised bills related to its implementation is firing up concerns from the Department of Public Health. It's been more than one month since the rules and regulations were officially rejected, and now...