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Las Vegas' reputation as a place where you can indulge your vices and have a good time helps it lure some 43 million visitors a year. But tourists heading to Sin City hoping to consume newly legal cannabis have a problem: There are few places in town, other than private homes, where someone can...

Just one cannabis nursery and two medicinal dispensaries will be allowed in the city under rules adopted by the Alameda City Council early Wednesday morning. The new ordinance also bans people from smoking marijuana in public places and in multi-family housing – mirroring the city's...

North Dakota officials who are setting up a medical marijuana system don't expect the drug to be available to patients for another year - two years after voters approved it. The timeline is disappointing to at least one marijuana advocacy group, but state Medical Marijuana Director Jason Wahl...

Colorado's Marijuana Enforcement Division will hold a marijuana rule-making hearing starting at 9 a.m. today, October 16, in the Gaming Commission Room, 17301 West Colfax Avenue in Golden. In advance of that session, Todd Mitchem shared the following statement, which he plans to deliver during...

Rules for medical marijuana businesses in Niles could possibly scuttle the proposal for a dispensary at the historic former post office downtown. That and other details emerged Monday night as city council members got their first look at two proposed ordinances. One spells out state and...

Say good-bye to consuming edibles in the shape of animals or fruit, Colorado. The state's ban on human, animal or fruit-shaped marijuana edibles went into effect on Sunday, Oct. 1. The move by the state was done "to increase awareness of marijuana potency and make products less appealing...

Recreational marijuana users may be looking forward to Jan. 1, the day the drug becomes legal in California, but for Los Angeles-based cannabis businesses that date is nothing to celebrate. That's because the LA City Council's latest draft of cannabis regulations requires current marijuana...

Chelan County Commissioners tabled a vote after a contentious hearing Tuesday on the proposed new rules regarding growing marijuana throughout the county. The Wenatchee World reports about 100 growers attended the meeting and those that commented told commissioners about the devastating impact...

Ohioans wouldn't be able to buy edible medical marijuana that looks like a cartoon character, superhero or pop-culture figure. But they would be able to buy a 90-day supply in the form of a capsule, cream, lotion, oil, solid, transdermal patch or plant material for vaporization from 7 a.m. to...

Louis Johnson, managing director of OMNI Medical Services, showed up Monday at a hearing about proposed rules governing physicians under Ohio's newly legal-medical marijuana program in hope the murky waters of "affirmative defense" might be cleared a bit. But he never heard the words...

Denver's plan to allow people to use marijuana at some businesses drew a step closer to reality Friday, when the city's top licensing official unveiled final rules for the pilot program that is set to launch in coming months. Big questions remain: Will the newly adopted regulations for the...

The state health department issued "temporary emergency rules" for the state medical marijuana program just days before an implementation deadline. On Friday, parts of Montana's new medical marijuana program will take effect as state regulators move toward full implementation, which is slated...

Two years ago, doctors found a brain tumor in Michelle Caminos' 2-year-old son that persisted despite surgeries, radiation and chemo. The Waterville higher-education consultant was desperate when she asked the neurosurgeon about cannabis. He told her it would be "almost irresponsible to not...

Among the main concerns Tuesday night at a public hearing on social marijuana use at Denver businesses were dual consumption of pot and alcohol, cannabis odors, visibility and protecting children from exposure to the drug. The hearing at the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building before...

Los Angeles unveiled a new set of proposed regulations Thursday on how and where marijuana businesses can operate within city limits, the latest step toward reworking its rules after Californians voted to legalize recreational pot. The draft rules would impose restrictions on where pot shops...

Limits on farm sizes, renewable energy mandates and a lack of clarity on rules for tribal lands were among the concerns raised by 100 or so cannabis cultivators who gathered this week at a community center in Santa Ana. The hearing, hosted by the Department of Food and Agriculture, was the...

Limits on farm sizes, renewable energy mandates and a lack of clarity on rules for tribal lands were among the concerns raised by 100 or so cannabis cultivators who gathered this week at a community center in Santa Ana. The hearing, hosted by the Department of Food and Agriculture, was the...

St. Lucie County Commissioners voted Tuesday to approve a new ordinance that would set some rules for medical marijuana dispensaries in the county. The rules limit how many dispensaries can open, and where they can open. The dispensaries will have to be no less than 1,000 feet from any...

After months of wrangling, Denver's proposed rules for social pot use permits set the stage for July applications. Businesses that obtain permits to offer Denver's first-in-the-nation areas for social marijuana use would have to require patrons to sign waivers as they enter. They would have to...

The Florida Legislature adjourned its 2017 session this week without approving an implementation bill for Amendment 2, the constitutional measure approved by 71 percent of voters last November. That's bad news for patients, supporters of medical marijuana say. They're calling on the state to...