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Hallowell – The City Council discussed whether or not to impose a moratorium on marijuana-related businesses during Monday's meeting. Mayor Mark Walker said there have been a number of people from the public and a handful of merchants who have asked about a potential moratorium for Hallowell...

Come this Thursday recreational marijuana users in Montreal will be able to walk into a store, browse for their favourite strains and walk away with a few grams of cannabis – all in defiance of federal drug laws. That's because a Canadian chain of recreational marijuana dispensaries is...

On Friday afternoon, the Medical Cannabis Commission announced companies that won preliminary licenses to dispense medical marijuana – now called cannabis by the commission to distinguish it from recreational marijuana – including at least two companies that will sell medical pot in Carroll...

Little Rock, Ark. - The clock is ticking for the new five member Medical Marijuana Commission to get the drug in patients hands. Monday, the group held its first public meeting. Before medical marijuana will be ready for purchase, the commission has a long list of steps to complete; including...

Austin, Texas - Michelle Walker and her husband traveled more than 80 miles Monday for the sake of their 8-year-old son. "This is a picture of Vincent," said Walker. Their journey doesn't end here. "This was as close as we got to a smile," she said. Vincent has intractable...

Baltimore – Companies that are a step closer to dispensing medical marijuana in Maryland are eager to move forward. The president of a company that's a step closer to dispensing medical marijuana in Maryland thinks the state is a great market for the industry and that the perception of pot...

Blue Ash is looking to restrict medical marijuana businesses, but city council members have differing opinions on the issue. "From a local land use perspective, it is more like a liquor license. They are given a permit by someone else, we can just determine where they do or don't operate,"...

Chauncey Billups, Tracy McGrady, Jalen Rose and Michelle Beadle discussed the NBA's marijuana policy on NBA Countdown this week. The three former players basically said the same thing: The NBA should change its policy, especially taking into account the fact that marijuana could be a safer...

Some marijuana processors in Central Oregon have stopped supplying retailers due to delays in mandatory product testing for potency and contaminants, despite changes to state regulations announced earlier this month. High costs and a shortage of certified labs for pesticide testing contribute...

Lansing - Uncertainty about the city's proposed commercial medical marijuana ordinance has created an uneasy situation for Jeff Nemeth. Nemeth is CEO of a cannabis testing facility called ACT Laboratories Inc. Nearly $200,000 has been invested in his business that's been located in a light...

From lobbyists and consultants to advocates on both sides of the medical marijuana debate, there was plenty of interest about the medical marijuana program. Led by a state supreme court justice, members of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission were sworn in before their first ever...

Ald. Joe Moore (49th Ward) accepted a proposal by Bob Kingsley, owner of 420 Capital Management, to build Greengate Compassion Center, a new medical cannabis dispensary in the Rogers Park neighborhood. "The proposed dispensary will perform a vital service and provide much needed relief to...

Nevada officials shut down the state's online registration system for medical marijuana cards Thursday while they investigate a "problem" with the web portal, according to a state spokeswoman. "A problem was identified by the state with the medical marijuana portal. As a result, the portal...

Phoenix – The amount of money spent on medical marijuana in the next four years will nearly double according to a new study – assuming the Trump administration doesn't step in. Projections by New Frontier Data and ArcView Market Research peg retail sales this year at $367 million. But by 2020...

Last spring, medical marijuana advocates celebrated a hard-fought victory as Pennsylvania legalized the medicine they hope will help them or their sick loved ones. Now - as new leaders prepare take power in Washington - they're watching nervously and hoping the rug isn't pulled out from under...

F or the past week or so, Max Cirello, 19, has begun his day the same way. He awakens inside a mobile home at 7 a.m., walks to a wooden shed just steps away and begins processing his recently harvested marijuana. It is a tedious job. He takes totes stuffed with a quarter to half a plant and...

Silas Hurd, 9, arises in the morning these days giddy with anticipation. "Oh, he is excited, just really excited," said his father, Forrest Hurd. "He asks over and over again, just to confirm that he is really going." This month, the reddish-haired boy from Nevada County went back to...

Winter Garden, Fla. - A Winter Garden nursery that has been in business for decades did something Friday that it has never done before: make a delivery of medical marijuana. Knox Nursery made its first delivery Friday afternoon to a home in St. Cloud. The nursery won a competition to...

Gov. Asa Hutchinson has a suggestion for how a newly formed commission should decide who grows and sells marijuana for medical purposes. At a news conference this week, the governor said he prefers a lottery system to distribute state licenses. It would discourage out-of-state interests from...

Industrial hemp gets a bad rap, advocates say. The versatile plant, stigmatized by a different strain that yields marijuana, has been banned in Pennsylvania since 1937, according to the state Department of Agriculture. But similar to the way that opposition to medical marijuana is fading...