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Construction of an $8 million medical marijuana facility at 28 Appleton St. is about 70 percent done and the business is scheduled to open in mid-February, an official said Tuesday. "Seriously interesting, and it's exciting," said Jon Thomforde of GTI Massachusetts NP Corp. "It's really a...

The state of Michigan has been working on strategic guidelines for business owners to apply for a medical marijuana license to operate. There's just one problem: no one knows what those guidelines are. This comes after Governor Snyder signed three bills last year, paving the way for a...

As Pennsylvania prepares to issue medical marijuana cards by year's end, patients will find firearms out of their reach, state and federal law enforcement authorities say. At issue is the federal classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug -- one with "no currently accepted medical use...

As they filed through the sleek waiting room of RISE Silver Spring, prospective patients – the old, the young, the sick, and the curious – came upon deep glass cases that looked like they'd been designed for a high-end jewelry store. Soon those cases will be stocked with medicinal pot grown...

McGill University law professor Daniel Weinstock says he heartily recommends his students take up criminal law in order to take advantage of the country's new, strict cannabis laws. "There is going to be a steady stream of customers," Weinstock said, referring to the influx of people he...

Winnipeg's Delta 9 has teamed up with Canada's largest publicly traded marijuana producer as the country gets closer to legalizing marijuana. Canopy Growth Corp., based out of Ontario, has entered into a distribution agreement with Delta 9 to sell cannabis products online. "Our company is...

Is recreational marijuana about to be legalized in Michigan? Members of the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol believe so. State lawmakers, however, weigh in both ways on the issue. Earlier this month, the coalition turned in several cases of signed petitions to get the...

Kalamazoo Township will let zoning and economic forces determine how many medical marijuana facilities can open in its jurisdiction. The Kalamazoo Township Board of Trustees voted 6-1 to adopt a medical marijuana ordinance Monday, Nov. 27. The ordinances allows entrepreneurs to open...

TV travel guide Rick Steves is best-known for his mild-mannered jaunts across Europe, but he traveled to Chicago to speak out Tuesday on a favorite side project: legalizing marijuana. "This is not a pro-pot movement. This is an anti-prohibition movement," Steves said at a press conference...

Bud bouquets are exactly what they sound like — floral arrangements with marijuana leaves and sticky green marijuana buds carefully worked into them. San Diego artist Leslie Monroy gets hired for lots of weddings, and she doesn't stop at fancy bud bouquets. She also makes weed-filled...

It's been four years since those farmer activists first hoisted that flag over the Montpelier Statehouse. That flag. It made national news, mostly because of what it symbolized – Old Glory's proud stars and stripes were woven, not from cotton, but from hemp. And family farmers from the...

One North Jersey town says it plans revisit the rules it has in place regarding smoke shops, at the same time Trenton prepares to hash out whether marijuana legalization is really coming to the Garden State. Welcome to Lodisterdam? Not so fast. Despite getting ahead of the issue as it...

Land development plans for an Alzheimer's facility and medical marijuana dispensary both received a nod of approval from the Upper Dublin Planning Commission Nov. 21. The planners recommended the board of commissioners approve the plans along with some waivers. Dresher Care, a one-story...

Across the country, minor pot infractions disproportionately affect people of color. Newly enacted legislation in the Golden State is working to ease those penalties. Eddy, a burly 65-year-old professional musician, walked into a free legal clinic in Los Angeles County one July morning hoping...

In anticipation of Governor-elect Phil Murphy's making good on his campaign promise to legalize marijuana, the Borough Council is taking a closer look at its smoke shop ordinances and considering new regulations. "Before this happens, we need to have something in place," Borough Manager...

Legalization of marijuana in eight states -– including Nevada – in last year's election has opened the floodgates for pot businesses to make money. That's according to more than a dozen business owners whose products are both directly marketed at buyers in the pot sector, and in similar...

There was a time when Marin County was a capital of cannabis hipsterism, a New Age outpost of ganja in a weed-hostile world, but when recreational sales of marijuana become legal Jan. 1, the county that rarely abstains will be sitting out. County officials recently rejected all 10...

Medical marijuana dispensaries are temporarily prohibited within the Hamilton city limits, but just down the road outside of Victor, Heirloom Remedies is providing patients with cannabis and the general public with an eclectic range of quirky products and services. It's an under-the-radar...

Let the voters decide. That's what Patrick Gorman of Palo Cedro says about the Shasta County Board of Supervisors' prohibition of commercial cannabis sales when recreational pot becomes legal throughout California on Jan. 1 and also of the county's previously existing ban on medicinal marijuana...

After a long series of fits and starts in Maryland's medical cannabis program, Frederick dispensaries are preparing for marijuana to become available to patients by the first week of December. "We are planning and staffing and spending money based off the assumption that we are going to have...