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Hello all, Just wanted to say what's up from SF bay area. I've been smoking for about 3 years now for wellness. I used to smoke for recreational use but now its for wellness. Glad to be a member of a great community.

A new report is making the rounds in circles interested in marijuana policy, including those that want to see Colorado Springs legalize recreational marijuana. Cleverly titled "Contact High," by researchers with the University of Wisconsin and California State University, the report looks at the...

Memo to all you Golden State tokers: Your dreams of buying recreational pot in California after New Year's Day are hazy at best. It's become clear in recent weeks that most cities around the Bay Area, as well as the rest of the state, will not be ready to permit recreational cannabis sales...

Nevada took a gamble on recreational marijuana, and it’s paying off. Dispensaries sold $27.1 million of pot in Nevada, in July alone. That's almost double what both Colorado and Oregon sold in their first months. It's almost seven times what Washington sold. Banking on weed, Nevada made...

A legislative committee plans to consider a bill to double the recreational marijuana sales tax to 20 percent and ban marijuana social clubs until 2019. The Legislature's Joint Select Committee on Marijuana Legalization Implementation is set to vote Thursday on whether to recommend the...

Niagara-on-the-Lake will soon boast the largest legal marijuana facility in the world, with one million square feet of greenhouses on Concession 5 to be in production by next summer, when recreational pot is expected to be legalized by the federal government. About one third of that space is...

The public will weigh in on lawmakers' plans to double the recreational marijuana sales tax to 20 percent and allow for pot drive-thrus and home delivery of pot. The Legislature's Joint Select Committee on Marijuana Legalization Implementation is holding a Tuesday hearing on an omnibus bill...

The legalization of the recreational marijuana in Massachusetts offers a chance for economic growth for Berkshire County, area legislators believe, in agricultural and retail sectors. The comments came as the central Massachusetts town of Milford voted last week to ban recreational marijuana...

The Board of Selectmen has approved a motion to request a letter from town counsel spelling out the legal process the municipality must follow to ban the sale or cultivation of recreational marijuana in town. Luldow voters have already approved a temporary ban on recreational pot that...

City Council President Clint Olivier mounted the charge to put off a decision on imposing a ban on recreational marijuana dispensaries, brushing off one accusation he was the king of promoting drug use in Fresno. "If I am going to be the king of anything, it's of personal responsibility and...

Marijuana advocates scored a major victory last November, when voters approved recreational cannabis. But its pathway remains an obstacle course: the alcohol industry's meddling, Henderson's slowness to permit sales, the void of places where tourists can enjoy cannabis products (legal only at...

Denver and Colorado Springs aren't going to be confused as twins anytime soon. Colorado's two largest cities have some glaring differences in political leanings and landscapes, and legal cannabis is definitely one of them. Nearly five years after Colorado voters decided to legalize recreational...

The often rancorous battle over recreational marijuana sales in Brownsville will continue, at least for a while. On a 4-3 vote Tuesday evening, members of the City Council upheld a Planning Commission decision to deny the sale of recreational marijuana at the Green Cross medical marijuana...

The cannabis industry has lit up in the last year, including weed delivery startup Eaze, which just raised $27 million in Series B financing and claims a 300 percent year-over-year increase in gross sales. But the weed delivery startup has come under scrutiny recently for burning through at...

The City of Goleta will work fast to try to adopt rules for regulating recreational marijuana sales, but if it cannot agree on an ordinance by Jan. 1, the city intends to enact a temporary ban. Such a ban would give Goleta more time to craft a reasonable, well-considered ordinance, and...

Hello everyone, I am a cannabis user from India as you probably have guessed from the title. :Namaste: Been smoking for a few years now, mostly recreational. Looking forward to meeting all you fellow stoners :volcano-smiley:

Ontario's plan to sell and distribute recreational pot exclusively through a network of government-operated stores could lock in the dominance of the country's large-scale licensed marijuana producers and weed craft growers out of the market, industry experts said Friday. Two of the country's...

Henderson residents will soon not have to travel far for their recreational marijuana purchases. The Henderson City Council voted Tuesday to establish retail marijuana regulations and licenses. However, there are still a few more steps that need to be taken before retail customers can...

Henderson inched closer to the sale of legalized recreational marijuana Tuesday night after city officials approved ordinances days before a 7-month moratorium expires. The Henderson City Council voted 3-2 to adopt an ordinance to establish retail marijuana regulations and licenses...

The first retail marijuana stores in Massachusetts could open in July 2018. But don't count on being able to buy marijuana. Industry experts are warning that there is likely to be a pot shortage almost immediately, since there will not be enough growers in the state to keep up with demand...