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Marijuana isn't all fun and games in the eyes of the Nevada Gaming Commission. Though Nevada voters legalized recreational pot in last fall's November election, the five-member regulatory panel has publicly warned gaming companies to continue treating the drug as an illegal substance. With...

The biggest challenge for Justin Trudeau's forthcoming legal recreational marijuana market is a shortage of pot, the finance minister of Canada's most-populous province says. Ontario's Charles Sousa said a supply crunch was discussed during a meeting with provincial and federal counterparts...

The alcohol folks said Question 2 – which passed 54 percent to 45 percent – gave them the right to be the middleman: the people who transport the recreational marijuana from the growhouse to the store. First Judicial District Judge James Wilson agreed. His ruling, which prevents the Nevada...

California lawmakers' approval of the state budget on last week came with a piece of attached legislation with major implications for the cannabis industry, which is in its first year as a fully regulated business sector. SB 94 — which passed with a 31-to-3 vote — essentially merges the...

A Nevada judge says he expects to decide Tuesday whether the state can move forward with plans for medical marijuana dispensaries to begin selling pot for recreational use for the first time on July 1. Lawyers for the liquor industry and the Nevada Department of Taxation argued at a daylong...

To those who think the U.S. or even Canada leads the way, cannabis legalization is a hot topic in Europe this spring. Here the stakes are also very different if not in some ways higher. "Reform" here always means of the federal variety. And with it, are coming some intriguing proposals...

Just in time for the long Independence Day weekend, recreational marijuana will become legal July 1 in Las Vegas and all of Nevada. For around $7 to $10, you'll be able to walk into one of the dozens of dispensaries and buy a joint. Just don't plan on smoking it along the Strip or on...

The lead advocate for legalizing recreational marijuana in New Jersey, state Sen. Nick Scutari, will hold a hearing on Monday on a legislative blueprint he introduced in May. Gov. Chris Christie is a staunch opponent of recreational marijuana use. But Christie's term expires in seven months...

Nevada voters legalized recreational marijuana in November, and officials are trying to put rules in place to start selling it on July 1. It would be the shortest turnaround from legalization to the launch of sales in any of the other seven states and District of Columbia where recreational...

Nevada voters legalized recreational marijuana in November, and officials are trying to put rules in place to start selling it on July 1. It would be the shortest turnaround from legalization to the launch of sales in any of the other seven states and District of Columbia where recreational...

In a unanimous vote, the Reno City Council approved the city's first recreational pot business licenses Wednesday, paving the way for four shops to begin selling to adults on July 1. Mynt Cannabis Dispensary, Sierra Wellness Connection, Blum Reno and The Dispensary were awarded licenses under...

Gov. Jerry Brown and legislators proposed Monday to allow medical and recreational marijuana to be sold out of the same locations. The pot industry had sought the change to cut costs and the number of operations. The co-location rule was one of dozens of new regulations contained in budget...

Recreational marijuana -- the kind you smoke without a doctor's note -- wasn't legal anywhere in the United States five years ago. Since then, voters in eight states and Washington, D.C., have given it the green light. Sales of legal pot grew to $6.6 billion in 2016, according to New...

The governor of Vermont has expanded medical marijuana there, weeks after vetoing a bill that would have legalized recreational marijuana. Governor Phil Scott, a Republican, signed a bill that adds Parkinson's disease, Crohn's disease and post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of...

On July 1, Mesquite residents who so choose can casually jot down "weed" on their shopping lists as they head out the door. That's the start for Nevada's "early start program" for recreational marijuana sales. As the Silver State enacts the will of its voters – Nevadans approved...

In the coming weeks, recreational marijuana retail sales are set to begin in Nevada. But how will it affect existing medical marijuana patients? Medical marijuana dispensaries opened across Nevada in 2015. The framework for the medical program is providing a "launching pad" for recreational...

Colorado is often cited as the bellwether of America becoming a marijuana nation. With our legalization of medical marijuana in 2000, and of recreational marijuana in 2012, we helped open the floodgates to what has become a national movement. After the November elections, in which four...

The marijuana industry has been a practically unstoppable force over the past couple of years, and so have marijuana stocks. According to a recently published report from Marijuana Business Daily entitled "Marijuana Business Factbook 2017," sales of legal weed in the U.S. are expected to...

The Biggest Little City is one step closer to recreational pot after city council members unanimously voted to adopt the ordinance. Pending final approval at next week's council meeting, it would grant temporary, privileged business licenses to four local medical dispensaries, allowing them...

Medical marijuana growers would be able to sell up to 20 pounds of their crop into Oregon's recreational market under a bill that has advanced in the Legislature. House Bill 2198 is another stab by lawmakers at reshaping Oregon's older but troubled medical marijuana program so it can coexist...