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Newark - Despite the cold and rain Tuesday morning, about a dozen protesters chanted outside the Newark Municipal Building to voice their frustration that the city will ignore the newly passed marijuana decriminalization law. Shawn Aber, a Newark resident, organized the People Have Spoken...

The Albany City Council on Monday was not able to bring to a close the issue of how to regulate legal recreational marijuana. In fact, a general malaise surrounds the issue among most council members. But instead of making a decision, the council decided to commute the issue to the Wednesday...

Steamboat Springs - Adults in Steamboat Springs could start shopping for their marijuana later in the evening under a new set of rules being considered by the Steamboat Springs City Council. The ordinance going before the city's elected officials Tuesday night would allow all marijuana...

The nascent recreational marijuana industry in Massachusetts will, one day, bring in revenue to cover the state's costs of regulating and licensing pot shops. But first, the state will have to set up a brand new regulatory framework. Where the money will come from to set up that framework -...

A Washington cannabis business group is starting a fund to help patients defray the cost of medical marijuana. The Washington CannaBusiness Association said Tuesday that the new charitable effort will expand patient access to medical marijuana. Marijuana's illegal status at the federal...

Cancer patients will have the chance to join a world-first medical marijuana trial at Orange Health Service. Currently, half of cancer patients treated with chemotherapy suffer significant nausea and more than a third experience vomiting. Marijuana, or cannabis will be compared to...

A licensed Canadian pot grower has announced it's teaming up with the former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), Phil Fontaine, to help give First Nations communities across the country access to medical marijuana. Cronos Group, formerly PharmaCan Capital, said Tuesday it...

Many medical marijuana patients were worried that a ballot measure legalizing cannabis for recreational use in California would make the price of their medicine go up. Instead, for some of them, pot just got cheaper, though maybe not for long. The Board of Equalization recently sent notice...

The Ventura City Council on Monday temporarily banned all commercial activity related to marijuana to have more time to decide how, or if, to regulate it. The moratorium lasts up to 45 days, so in January the council is likely to extend it another 10 months. In the interim, the city could...

Many patients seek treatment at medical marijuana dispensaries because of the superb customer service and sense of control over illness they offer, not because they consider marijuana a wonder drug, said David Casarett, MD, chief of palliative care at the Duke University School of Medicine in...

Medical marijuana may soon be available for patients in Ireland after the minority government approved Thusday a new amendment allowing use of the plant. The bill, drafted by Ireland's People Before Profit group, still has another round of approval by the government before it can become law...

With marijuana and its medical version becoming big business in Colorado and other states, the organizer of today's Capital Conference in downtown Lansing said more than 300 profit-minded Michiganders were registered to learn how they might someday turn the drug into dollars. In the banquet...

Augusta, Maine - A recount of a public referendum that legalized recreational marijuana use in Maine got underway Monday. Staffers from the Secretary of State's Office and both campaigns huddled around tables to scrutinize the ballots, beginning with the ones from Maine's largest cities...

Despite the promise of landlords and housing authorities having the right to ban homegrown marijuana under the new voter-approved recreational use law, there are still concerns about cultivation and use in those settings. The law will go into effect Dec. 15, barring a delay. George C...

Haverhill - On the issue of legalizing marijuana, the people of Massachusetts have spoken. Now comes the challenge for local officials - regulating a new industry and dealing with a new law which takes effect Dec. 15, even though pot shops will not be allowed to open until 2018. Just as it...

Alaska, the nation's newest adult-use marijuana market, is slowly but steadily getting up and running, although many shops are running short on product because demand exceeds supply. As of Nov. 29, 61 cannabis business licenses had been issued in the state, including 29 that are currently...

The man who helped design the light displays on bridges across the Arkansas River never thought he could play a role in the medical-marijuana industry. But the election last month - when voters approved the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment - gave Doug Schreiber, who handles lighting...

A proposal by Gov. John Hickenlooper to direct marijuana revenue toward building affordable housing and curbing homelessness offers a glimpse into the potential the new revenue can have on public services and projects. But Hickenlooper and his administration are hesitant to acknowledge that...

Sonoma County's move to recognize and regulate thousands of marijuana growers has triggered a high-stakes battle between pot producers intent on protecting their livelihood and rural residents who want cannabis cultivation pushed as far as possible from their homes. It's a land-use conflict...

When it comes to doing business, Leaf isn't discrete. The friendly 25-year-old saunters around Dolores Park in San Francisco with a big teddy bear on his shoulder and a ring of plastic marijuana leaves around his neck. You can't miss him. Selling weed is his game, one he won't quit anytime...