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Revolution Enterprises' two Illinois medical marijuana cultivation facilities – each about the size of five Millennium Park ice skating rinks – are allowed under their state license to get much, much bigger. But with retail sales of medical marijuana in the state only topping about $9.3...

Delaware appears to be on the verge of becoming the first state in the Mid-Atlantic to legalize retail sales of marijuana for recreational use by adults. In Dover on Wednesday, a governor's task force reviewed changes to a proposed bill that also could make the state the first to legalize...

Vermont lawmakers took quick action toward legalizing marijuana Wednesday, mere hours after the opening gavel of the 2018 legislative session. Members of the House Judiciary Committee approved a minor change to a bill that would legalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana for those 21...

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said Wednesday that Utahns will vote to legalize medical marijuana. Whether that will be this November – when it may be on the ballot as an initiative – or a future year, the governor didn't say. Speaking to a middle school class in Riverton, Herbert was asked by a...

Republican opposition to legalizing marijuana for medicinal use may be softening. While it's not likely that such legislation would be approved this year, the Indiana General Assembly this session could edge a little closer to one day legalizing medical marijuana. Rep. Jim Lucas...

Australia's fledgling medicinal cannabis market is about to get a big boost, with the Federal Government to allow exports of cannabis-based medicines. The move aims to create a bigger market for locally produced medicines so that there is a more stable and secure supply for Australian patients...

Iowans who want to buy cannabis oil to treat a range of ailments don't have to wait a year for state officials to set up a tightly regulated distribution system — because versions of the products already are for sale on store shelves. State and federal officials say the oils, known as...

A controversial bill aimed at legalizing recreational marijuana in Delaware will be rewritten in the coming weeks in an effort to shore up support in the General Assembly, according to one of the measure's lead sponsors. "There is a lot of stuff we have to go through to reach some consensus,"...

On Monday, California became the nation's sixth state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana through the passage of 2016's Proposition 64. On Tuesday afternoon, Warriors coach Steve Kerr expressed support for the drug. "I'm a proponent of it," Kerr said after Tuesday's practice...

Stopping by Stephen Colbert's Late Show on Tuesday, CNN's Anderson Cooper responded to the controversy surrounding the network airing a segment on New Year's Eve in which reporter Randi Kaye, in Colorado, was shown holding a lit marijuana joint. "First of all, it's legal in Colorado. We are...

With Gov.-elect Phil Murphy vowing to legalize marijuana in his first 100 days in office, many municipalities find themselves grappling with an unexpected question: Should we allow pot to be sold in our town? For some local leaders, the answer is an unequivocal no. Marijuana shops would cause...

At least 63 people were arrested over the weekend on suspicion of possessing less than an ounce of marijuana after police were unable to identify the actual owner of the drug stash found at a house party in Cartersville, Georgia, over the weekend. Cartersville police said they arrived at the...

Ocean County is quickly becoming New Jersey's biggest holdout in the legalization of marijuana. Berkeley Township council members on Monday introduced an ordinance that would prohibit any business that sells marijuana — medicinal or recreational — or weed paraphernalia. The 56-square-mile...

As Los Angeles moves toward allowing the sale of recreational marijuana, joining cities across the state in the newly legal enterprise, police here offered a stern word of caution. Yes, recreational pot will be legal to sell (and buy, and consume, and cultivate). But there are limits. And the...

The wait is finally over for recreational pot users to come out of the shadows. "I'm about 56 years old and I never thought this day would happen," said Brett Anthony Muret of Woodside. He came to Buddy's Cannabis in San Jose to do his pot shopping. Buddy's was the first dispensary to...

It's officially 2018, and sales of marijuana for recreational use is legal in California. Monterey Bay Alternative Medicine in Del Rey Oaks became the first location in Monterey County to sell recreational marijuana Monday and was greeted with a line of consumers as a result. "This has...

The legalization of cannabis in coming months will offer a clear opportunity for provinces to shut down the black market for the drug and put an end to any notion there are still "grey" areas in Canadian law, top Liberal officials said. In a joint interview, federal Health Minister Ginette...

Quietly and a little under the radar, recreational sales of marijuana began in Carson City January 1, 2018. There was very little fanfare, no long lines and the two stores in Carson City opened at their normal times. At Rise, it was business as usual, just with a slight uptick in customers...

New Jersey could reap as much as $1 billion a year from legal marijuana – the equivalent of more than a half-cent boost in the sales tax – if the state taxes the industry aggressively and imposes fees on growers, distributors, testing labs, retailers and delivery services, according to...

A Washington marijuana grower argues his farm is an agricultural activity and should be exempt from the state's Clean Air Act. An appeals panel will tour a Western Washington farm in January to help it decide whether smells from harvesting marijuana should be treated with the same leniency as...