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Canada's push to legalize marijuana could be a "game changer" for the recreational pot industry with the potential to reach $6 billion in sales by 2021. The federal government is planning to legalize recreational marijuana in Canada by 2017 with sales likely to commence in 2018. A vast...

Marijuana has been nearly unstoppable this year. Heading into Election Day, residents in nine states were set to vote on marijuana initiatives or amendments within their states. Five states had been looking to legalize recreational marijuana, whereas residents in four states were voting on...

Tehachapi , Calif. - The Tehachapi City Council voted unanimously to enact an interim ordinance banning recreation marijuana sales and outdoor cultivation on Monday, November 21. This comes two weeks after California voters passed Proposition 64, which legalized the sale, cultivation...

Marijuana legalization is going more smoothly in some states than in others. A major reason that four more states legalized recreational marijuana this year is the tax revenue that pot brings in. Last year, Colorado collected over $70 million in tax revenue from marijuana - nearly double the $42...

Jefferson City, Mo. - There's an organized effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Missouri. The Secretary of State's office has received an initiative petition to place the issue before voters. The Political Action Committee "Total Legalization" plans to start circulating a petition to...

The passage of Proposition 64 made recreational cannabis legal throughout California, but Marin residents won't be able to pick up a pack of Acapulco Gold at their corner store anytime soon. State licensing of retail outlets isn't slated to begin until Jan. 1, 2018, and the new law allows...

Who says Oregon voters never will approve new taxes? In the Nov. 8 election, voters in 111 Oregon cities and counties faced a measure to impose a brand-new tax. The measure passed in all 111 localities. Of course, it was a measure to impose a local 3 percent tax on the sales of...

The cannabis industry made solid chess moves in the election earlier this month. Not only did the recreational use of marijuana get a statewide green light with the approval of Proposition 64, but two local cities moved forward with medical-cannabis measures, as well. Considering California has...

Even as other states legalize marijuana, cannabis continues to ring up record-breaking sales in Colorado. The cannabis industry accounted for $127.8 million in medical and recreational marijuana sales in September, according to newly released data from the Colorado Department of Revenue. This...

California voters legalized recreational marijuana in the state on Nov. 8. In San Diego County, 55.7 percent of voters approved Proposition 64, while 44.3 percent voted against the proposition. Under the new law, cities and counties are allowed to add their own regulations, taxes or bans on...

Holbrook selectmen gave a green light for MassMedicum to add a dispensary to the company's already approved medical marijuana cultivation facility for the Mear Road industrial park, even though doubts lingered about whether a contract with MassMedicum not to sell recreational marijuana on the...

Voters in four states across the country approved ballot measures Nov. 8 to legalize the recreational use of marijuana: California, Maine, Nevada and Massachusetts. That brings the total number of states in the U.S. where recreational marijuana use is allowed to seven. However, many of those...

Benjamin Franklin said that taxes, like death, are one of life's few certainties. But due to a glitch in the technical language of California's successful marijuana legalization initiative, the state's pot smokers may prove him wrong. California's marijuana legalization initiative is designed...

Santa Cruz, Calif. - The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a temporary ban on growing recreational marijuana commercially Tuesday afternoon in response to Prop 64. Supervisors approved an emergency 45-day moratorium that makes growing marijuana to be sold commercially...

Marijuana advocates in Nevada celebrated on Tuesday as the state officially approved recreational marijuana use with 54.5% of the vote. But residents can't take advantage of the new measure just yet. The Nevada Marijuana Legalization Initiative - also known as Question 2 - will officially...

California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada showed up to support recreational marijuana, while Arkansas, Florida, and North Dakota passed ballot initiatives legalizing medical marijuana. Nadelmann and other advocates say the president-elect is "unpredictable, " and they are unsure where he...

Bakersfield, Calif. With last week's passage of Proposition 64, the recreational use of marijuana is now legal in California. Today, Kern County Supervisors will take up the issues that now arise between recreational and medical marijuana law. They will be looking at amending the county...

Bakersfield, Calif. With last week's passage of Proposition 64, the recreational use of marijuana is now legal in California. Today, Kern County Supervisors will take up the issues that now arise between recreational and medical marijuana law. They will be looking at amending the county...

Recreational marijuana may have won at the ballot box this election but it isn't the end of the pot debate. While people 21 and older can now legally smoke it, where you can buy marijuana will be left to local governments to decide. When it comes to recreational marijuana shops, while local...

Businesses, law enforcement officials and advocates for the state's medical marijuana program are looking toward — or bracing for — the week before Christmas, when adults at least 21 years old will be allowed to possess and grow marijuana in Maine. The change is the result of Question 1, the...