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San Diego - For the first time, the City Council Tuesday will take up proposed rules for establishments that plan to deal in recreational marijuana in San Diego. The regulatory package, which would update the city's Land Development Code and Local Coastal Program, will come before the council...

Guilford, Conn. — Approving the use of recreational marijuana has been an ongoing debate in Connecticut in recent years. A community forum is scheduled for Wednesday night at the Guilford Community Center to discuss that very topic. Public health experts and state legislators will be on hand...

The marijuana industry had an incredible 2016, and pro-legalization enthusiasts are hoping that momentum carries over into 2017. Heading into 2016, there were 23 states that had legalized medical cannabis and four (Washington, Colorado, Oregon, and Alaska) that had legalized recreational pot...

Recreational marijuana sales in Oregon produced $60.2 million in state tax -revenue in 2016, the first year of state-taxed pot sales. For much of the year, -marijuana sellers collected a 25 percent sales tax. To produce the $60.2 million in tax revenue reported by the state Department of...

Norwell's selectmen are considering asking the May Town Meeting to impose a local, year-long moratorium on the sale of marijuana for recreational use. The board has until mid-February to make a decision, according to Town Administrator Peter Morin. Massachusetts voters approved legalizing...

The head of Maine's largest purveyor of legal medical marijuana said on Wednesday that she also supports the regulated, recreational use of marijuana by people over 21 and the creation of a market to satisfy that demand. In November, that's just what Maine voters approved when they narrowly...

Guam - As promised and just in the second week into the new year, Governor Eddie Calvo has introduced legislation for the recreational use of marijuana. The governor is dubbing is the Marijuana Control Law which would regulate the use, production, sale and taxation of marijuana as well as...

For a few months now, Oregon has allowed medical marijuana sales and recreational marijuana sales to cohabit side by side through different sets of regulations. However, due to new changes in legislation, marijuana dispensaries are being forced to choose between serving medical patients or...

Agawam, Mass. — The Agawam City Council will discuss amending the town code to put a temporary moratorium on recreational marijuana establishments. Agawam Mayor Richard Cohen co-sponsored the amendment, which would grant a moratorium through the end of 2018, and give the town more time to...

Bismarck - It may be a step toward legalizing recreational marijuana in North Dakota. State Representative Marvin Nelson of Rolla wants the legislature to study recreational pot. Nelson says he thinks recreatonal pot will eventually be a question for the legislature or voters. A petition drive...

Following the January passage of the recreational use of marijuana, there's at least one big question lingering in the air. How will the law impact the medical marijuana industry? Zach Wright, manager of The Grove medical marijuana dispensary in Pahrump, said he does not believe that the...

YES John F. Keenan State senator, Quincy Democrat With the passage of Question 4, on Dec. 15 it became legal in Massachusetts to possess marijuana for recreational use. However, last month the Legislature and the governor passed legislation that delays some parts of the marijuana law by six...

On a 3-2 vote, Mesquite's City Council repealed a portion of its municipal code requiring a voter referendum on allowing recreational marijuana growth, sale, and distribution within city limits at its meeting Tuesday, Jan. 10. Councilman George Rapson labeled the referendum, passed in 2014...

A pair of lawmakers want to make Rhode Island the ninth U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana and the first to do so through the legislature rather than with a ballot initiative, they said on Tuesday. State Senator Joshua Miller and state Representative Scott Slater, both Democrats...

Once legal recreational marijuana sales begin in California in 2018, Los Angeles almost certainly will be the nation's largest recreational pot market. That market has been described as "a $25 billion opportunity" – leading to such headlines as "Will a California City Replace Denver as the...

A new bill in the Connecticut Senate is seeking the legalization of recreational marijuana sales in the state. SB11, introduced by Sen. Martin Looney (D-New Haven), seeks to "permit the retail sale of marijuana, tax such sale in the same manner as the state of Colorado and provide that...

Oregon this month passed the latest marijuana milestone: the end of recreational sales at medical marijuana dispensaries. The big shift ends stopgap state permission for dispensaries to sell marijuana to anyone over 21 as regulators spent the past year and a half drafting rules for the new...

Winslow – The Town Council has voted to approve the first reading for a moratorium on recreational marijuana establishments and discussed renewing the lease with Orion Ropeworks at the town's industrial building. The councilors voted Monday night to enact a moratorium because the state has...

It looks like 2017 is the year that marijuana legalization finally takes off — a full three years after Guam voters approved the legal use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. During the waning days of the 33rd Guam Legislature, senators passed Bill 343-33, which provides for the rules and...

The Mesquite City Council only has two options regarding the right to grow marijuana for recreational use in the immediate vicinity when it addresses the issue at its Jan. 10 meeting. They can either choose to have one grow facility in the region that is highly regulated, highly inspected and...