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It looks like Town Meeting will be able to vote on whether to permanently ban the sale of recreational marijuana in town. The Board of Selectmen Monday night unanimously approved a request to have Town Manager Andrew Flanagan draw up two questions for a Jan. 29, 2018 special town meeting...

Recreational marijuana businesses won't be allowed in the town. Town meeting Tuesday night approved two proposals which prohibit the cultivation, processing and retail sale of recreational marijuana. A zoning article banning marijuana businesses was approved on a vote of 138 to 37, while a...

Nevada's legal pot shops sold roughly $33.5 million worth of recreational marijuana products in August, the state Department of Taxation revealed Monday, an increase of nearly 24 percent compared to July, the first month of retail weed sales. Nearly a year after Nevadans voted to legalize...

A website that went online Tuesday provides the city of San Diego's guidelines and details about permitting for the new recreational marijuana industry. The page – sandiego.gov/marijuanainfo – focuses on the cultivation, testing, sales and delivery of marijuana products. Earlier this year...

Nevada dispensaries sold more than $33 million in recreational marijuana and the state pulled in nearly $5 million in total taxes in August, according to numbers released by the Nevada Department of Taxation Monday. That's up from the $27 million in sales and $3.7 million in taxes in July...

City officials are rethinking a proposed moratorium on recreational marijuana shops and retailers. Councilors Peter Juaire and Kathleen Robey suggested the temporary ban this spring after speaking with a number of residents concerned about recreational marijuana shops being located near their...

In a late-night vote, lawmakers passed a bill addressing recreational marijuana rules. The vote came during a one-day special session at the state house. The bill now heads to Governor LePage's desk, where he has ten days to either sign it, veto it, or let it go into law without his...

The war on drugs has been going on since 1971, and we have a winner: marijuana. Back then, possession of pot carried heavy penalties in many states–even life imprisonment. Today, 29 states sanction medical use of cannabis, and eight allow recreational use. Legal weed has become about as...

Marijuana legalization in Colorado appears to have led to a drop in opioid overdose deaths in that state, according to new research published in the American Journal of Public Health. "After Colorado's legalization of recreational cannabis sale and use, opioid-related deaths decreased more...

This site rocks...first and foremost. Thanks for the resource!!! But we now have what, 8 states that have Recreational? Any plans to add a section dedicated to that? Maybe I missed it...I searched. :thanks:

The war on drugs has been going on for nearly half a century, and we have a winner: marijuana. Back then, possession of pot carried heavy penalties in many states – even life imprisonment. Today, 29 states and the District of Columbia sanction medical use of cannabis and eight allow recreational...

Marshfield voters at a special Town Meeting have rejected a ban on recreational marijuana facilities in their town. Acting town clerk Narice A. Casper said though most voters at the Oct. 16 session were in favor of the ban, the proposal failed to reach the necessary two-thirds majority with...

The Fountain Valley City Council took a step Tuesday toward banning recreational marijuana-related businesses in town. The council voted 4-0, with member Mark McCurdy abstaining, to approve the first reading of an ordinance to ban all commercial marijuana activity such as shops and delivery...

Town Meeting voted Monday night to ban recreational marijuana businesses from opening in Westford, a decision that comes less than a year after the town opposed the statewide legalization of the drug. Under amendments to the law passed by the Legislature, communities that voted against the...

Marijuana legalization in Colorado led to a "reversal" of opiate overdose deaths in that state, according to new research published in the American Journal of Public Health. "After Colorado's legalization of recreational cannabis sale and use, opioid-related deaths decreased more than 6% in...

The Board of Selectmen will discuss whether to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use Monday evening. Phil DeCologero, chairman of the selectmen, said the board will not take a vote on the issue at that time. Massachusetts voters approved the legalization of recreational pot last...

April Lee made a beeline for Brian Bair's Wolf Enterprises professional financial services booth at the New England Cannabis Network's Maine Cannabis Convention on Saturday morning in Portland. Lee, who had driven up from her home in Carlstadt, New Jersey, to attend the two-day event, started...

Sure, it's the pun of all puns, but the marijuana industry really is growing like a weed. According to cannabis research firm ArcView, the North American legal-cannabis market saw sales increase by 34% in 2016 to $6.9 billion, and they're liable to grow by an average of 26% a year through 2021...

Officials who say recreational marijuana can help close budget holes may be on to something. The average consumer of legal recreational marijuana spends $111.05 per month on marijuana products, according to a new LendEDU poll of 1,000 consumers. Of them, 27.6 percent of respondents said they...

The mainstreaming of marijuana is about to get huge boost. Recreational marijuana sales will launch in three states next year, including the biggest one of all: California. It's already for sale in five states, but the addition of a legal retail marijuana market in California, with its...