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Could legalizing pot save Canada Post? Canadians looking to use recreational marijuana could help boost the post office's revenues and be part of the answer to its financial woes, a new report suggests. "Through its currently unparalleled national delivery network, Canada Post stands to...

Nanaimo city councillors want to know how the City of Victoria plans to regulate marijuana dispensaries, but there was agreement, something needs to be done about the pot shops here. Nanaimo continues to see dispensaries open and sell bud to brownies and T-shirts despite still being illegal...

Nanaimo city councillors want to know how the City of Victoria plans to regulate marijuana dispensaries, but there was agreement, something needs to be done about the pot shops here. Nanaimo continues to see dispensaries open and sell bud to brownies and T-shirts despite still being illegal...

Albany - More than half of patients certified to receive medical marijuana in New York live in New York City or on Long Island, according to a new report. The state Department of Health this week released a legally required report detailing the progress of the state's medical-marijuana...

Albany - More than half of patients certified to receive medical marijuana in New York live in New York City or on Long Island, according to a new report. The state Department of Health this week released a legally required report detailing the progress of the state's medical-marijuana...

Charlestown, WV - The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy released a report Thursday that examined the amount of money and the benefits West Virginia could receive if the state legalized marijuana. According to the report, if marijuana is legalized and taxed at a rate of 25% of its...

The U.S. marijuana industry and its advocates suffered a huge blow Thursday after it was announced the drug will remain illegal, according to a report issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Marijuana will remain a Schedule 1 substance under the Controlled Substance Act. All drugs that...

In the District, medical marijuana is legal, residents can possess up to two ounces of pot and they can grow up to six plants in their homes. Now a D.C. government agency says the city should take the next step and fully legalize the sale of marijuana. In a new report published by the D.C...

Trenton - New Jersey could reap $300 million a year in sales tax revenue by legalizing marijuana for recreational use, according to a new report by supporters of the effort. The report by New Jersey United for Marijuana Reform and New Jersey Policy Perspective says a federal study shows about...

That 'conservative' estimate is based on a 25 percent tax on pot sales to adults, advocates say. Legalizing and regulating marijuana for adults in New Jersey would generate a minimum of $300 million in new tax revenues annually, according to a report by advocates that will be released Tuesday...

A new report raises concerns that a medical marijuana program in Wyoming may not be able to pay for itself, though it also states that hurdle can be overcome. It also says state lawmakers should work to create "placeholder bills" in case voters legalize some form of marijuana. Those...

Almost as soon as the state's long-awaited medical marijuana program got underway in December 2012, the complaints about how expensive it was started rolling in. An analysis by The Star-Ledger in 2013 found New Jersey's medical cannabis was the most expensive in the nation, taking into...

Massachusetts voters are expected to head to the polls in November and likely vote on a ballot measure fully legalizing marijuana, four years after they signed off on medical marijuana and eight years after approving decriminalization of small amounts of the substance. A special state Senate...

Legalising the sale of cannabis in the UK could raise £1bn a year in taxes and minimise the health risks to those who use it, a report by the Liberal Democrats has claimed. The party has described current drug laws as "outdated and harmful" - as they generate billions of pounds in funding for...

Recreational marijuana could become legal in Massachusetts when voters head to the polls in November and lawmakers want to be ready. A group of senators has been researching the issue for a year and on Monday, FOX25's Vanessa Welch got an early look at a report along with two of their...

Not all the states are the same. Americans for Safe Access (ASA) has issued Medical Marijuana Access in the US: A Patient-Focused Analysis of the Patchwork of State Laws. It shows the vast array of differing state medical cannabis programs from the patient point of view. According to the press...

A report that evaluates medical marijuana programs nationwide says Arizona is doing pretty well in protecting the rights of medicinal weed patients, as well as giving patients easy access to their medicine. However, according to the patient-input-based analysis by the Washington-based...

Continuing the ban on medical marijuana dispensaries — and a possible prohibition on all medical marijuana cultivation in Fairfield — will go before city planning commissioners when they meet Wednesday. A new state law requires cities to have ordinances in effect by March 1 to prohibit or...

It was only a matter of time: Wall Street heavyweight Merrill Lynch, the wealth management division of Bank of America, has apparently already started thinking about its role in the marijuana industry. A 45-page equity report leaked to Philly Inquirer columnist Chris Goldstein suggests that...

A plant the federal law says is a Schedule I controlled substance was used to make the U.S. flag that will fly over the Capitol on Veterans Day. Industrial hemp could be a boon for small farmers, say proponents, including the U.S. veteran who grew the hemp used to make the flag. An American...