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As legalized marijuana continues to find its footing as an industry in Washington, the state's Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) has found that advertising violations make up one of the largest categories of infractions among marijuana businesses. In a report to the House Commerce and Gaming...

The Ohio Department of Commerce came under fire from state officials Tuesday for hiring a medical marijuana program consultant who had a felony drug conviction on his criminal record. The felony conviction would have disqualified the consultant from being awarded the medical marijuana...

Just days after the first medical marijuana dispensaries opened in Maryland, limited supplies and technical difficulties mean little of the product is actually available. The state has licensed just 10 of an expected 92 dispensaries, and of those only six have opened – none in the Baltimore...

Despite confusion and frustration over statements from the Indiana governor and attorney general, local businesses are continuing to sell cannabidiol, or CBD, and they're seeing a spike in sales. Mike Wilson, owner of American Dream Hi-Fi in Kokomo, said there has been a lot of confusion...

Stores selling marijuana-derived oils in central Indiana are seeing a spike in sales after the state's attorney general declared the products illegal with one limited exception. Kokomo store owner Joan Johnson said sales and interest in products containing cannabidiol, or CBD, increased after...

After nearly five years, the Route 66 Wellness Center in Williams is closing its doors. Despite a handful or regular patients, Cannabis Research Group has decided to close the doors to their medical marijuana dispensary in Williams to be closer to its main customer, Desert Springs Cancer Care...

Medically refractory epilepsy (MRE) patients in New York state who regularly used medical cannabis reported improvements in their health, according to a pilot survey presented here this week at the American Epilepsy Society annual meeting. Researchers with Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group...

When marijuana becomes legalized in B.C. in July, 2018, no one under the age of 19 will be able to possess, purchase and consume it. This age minimum is consistent with B.C.'s age for alcohol and tobacco. The B.C. government is outlining some of its plans related to the anticipated...

Allowing adults to purchase and use marijuana at some retail facilities -- think cannabis clubs -- could reduce the risk of children getting a hold of the drug and may limit how much legal marijuana is illegally transported out of state by visitors, a Cannabis Advisory Board subcommittee...

Sonoma County has officially opened the door to the newly regulated cannabis industry, starting with a Sebastopol-area farm run by a married couple who has been producing marijuana and low-dose tinctures for nearly a decade. The Fiddler's Greens farm, founded by Shannon and Cameron Hattan...

The Medical Marijuana Commission will choose five applicants to grow marijuana and 32 to sell it in Arkansas. In February, we'll learn who the five cultivators will be out of the nearly 100 applicants. One applicant who is already in the medical marijuana business told us what the business is...

As the legal marijuana business starts to professionalize, players are emerging who say they want to create multinational franchises and empires, in effect, building the Starbucks or McDonald's of ganja. Billy Levy and his partners have other plans. "We'd rather be like the P&G," said...

Two Virginia elementary school teachers were charged with possession and suspended and a third teacher was put on administrative leave following accusations they used marijuana inside the school. Someone told police three teachers regularly smoked marijuana and hashish together in the...

Aphria Inc., a Canadian medical marijuana grower, surged after striking a deal to have its production sold through the website of a major pharmacy chain. Aphria jumped as much as 30 percent in Toronto trading Tuesday. The shares were up 15 percent at C$13.67 at 9:54 a.m. local time. The...

Leamington, Ont.-based Aphria Inc. said Monday that it had struck a deal to sell medical marijuana to Loblaw-owned Shoppers Drug Mart, Canada's largest pharmacy chain. "Subject to Health Canada's approval of Shoppers Drug Mart's application to be a licensed producer, under the terms of the...

Growing up in Chicago, Manny Mendoza had two primary interests: smoking pot and cooking. After recreational marijuana became legal in California in November 2016, Mendoza moved to San Diego, combined his two interests and created Herbal Notes, a supper club that serves cannabis-infused food...

A leaked draft of state guidelines for operations in the Michigan Medical Marijuana industry shown at a cannabis conference in Lansing Sunday is comprehensive, cannabis experts said. Applications for medical marijuana operations licenses in Michigan go live on Dec. 15. The state said it...

Silas Hurd has his good days and his bad days. The 9-year-old's debilitating seizures are hard to watch, but his father, Forrest Hurd, said one thing can improve the boy's quality of life: medicinal marijuana. Silas suffers from epilepsy, and when we first brought you his story last year...

A new study on marijuana's health effects on people with HIV is launching after the University of Florida received a $3.2 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse in August. Participants are currently being selected and interviewed after UF Health released the announcement of this...

A local mother is crediting cannabis-based treatment for preventing her 13-year-old son from dying of a condition that causes severe seizures. Janice Taglieri and her son, Colton Schools, 13, of Ossipee spoke with the Sun on Thursday about how the marijuana treatment has helped the Kingswood...