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San Francisco's Municipal Railway, citing public complaints and uncertainty over future regulations, is proposing to ban both medical and recreational pot advertising on city buses, streetcars, cable cars and transit shelters. The Municipal Transportation Agency began allowing advertising of...

Oakland officials are reviewing 255 applications from individuals seeking special business permits to cultivate, sell, distribute and transport marijuana legally under the state cannabis laws that take effect Jan. 1. The largest number of the applications, 78, are from individuals who want...

Mart police will now arrest people stopped with any usable amount of marijuana, including misdemeanor amounts that could be addressed with a ticket and court appearance. "I don't think this is a problem isolated the city of Mart, but what I decided we are going to do is take a hard stand,"...

There's a professional society for seemingly every kind of medical specialist, even cannabis clinicians. Or medical marijuana physicians. Or pot doctors, in street parlance. And just as there's a choice of what to call physicians who use the plant to treat everything from pain to multiple...

For Hilary Dulany, long roots in Michigan and the prospect of expanding her Oregon marijuana business are luring her back to the Great Lakes State. For Nancy Whiteman, the prospect of taking her business national has her looking for partners in Michigan. For the two women and many other...

As a prominent Chicago surgeon, Dr. Charles Bush-Joseph sees them all too frequently: people who endure severe injuries or multiple surgeries, only to become addicted to prescription painkillers. One patient who pleaded for help was on such strong drugs already that Bush-Joseph knew he...

Marijuana businesses gathered Sunday at the Oregon Marijuana Business Conference to share new ideas and knowledge about the fast growing industry and network. "People need things from other people in the industry, vendors, suppliers, whatever it is. Just like any business. and here's the...

Investors in medical cannabis projects are focusing on Greece, where a warm, sunny climate and potentially favorable future legislation could help the government deliver on a promise to pull the country out of a seven-year economic crisis. Growers have expressed interest in pumping more than...

Medical marijuana advocates are responding to Gov. Eric Holcomb and other weed critics in Indiana by taking their fight to the public. On Friday morning, drivers heading east towards Indianapolis on I-70 may have noticed a new billboard above their heads, promoting marijuana as the solution...

Michigan medical marijuana facilities will pay a $6,000 one-time application fee to the state, according to an advisory bulletin released today by the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. Medical marijuana facilities also are subject to a municipality fee of up to $5,000...

Charges have been filed after 45 pounds of marijuana and a marijuana derivative were found inside glass jars and multiple freezers at an Austin home, said the Cedar Park Police Department. According to arrest records, a search warrant led Cedar Park Police to the home of Michael Crouch and a...

Police said they recovered 40 lbs. of marijuana from a Southeast Memphis home Wednesday. They arrested Melvin Tamayo, 44, and charged him with possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, speeding and driving without a license. Memphis police said they got information that...

Greg Maki kept his comments short and sweet when he supported the creation of a new medical marijuana ordinance that would allow growers and provisioning centers to operate in Egelston Township. "All I have to say is, it's just weed," said Maki, 28, of Muskegon, during a public hearing before...

A case report about the seizure and death of an 11-month old after exposure to cannabis has prompted headlines about "the first marijuana overdose death" this week. Except that's not what the doctors meant. "We are absolutely not saying that marijuana killed that child," said Thomas Nappe...

New Jersey recreational marijuana legalization may be a highlight of 2018; it's possible but unlikely the Trump administration will crack down on the U.S. cannabis industry; and major mainstream corporations are "not going to miss out" on the business opportunities presented by the burgeoning...

The Thousand Oaks City Council this week introduced an ordinance that will allow one medical marijuana retailer and one marijuana testing facility in an industrial-zoned part of town. The ordinance is scheduled to be adopted at the council's Nov. 28 meeting and will become effective 31 days...

On Jan. 1, Petaluma residents that overwhelmingly voted to legalize recreational cannabis last November, will still not have access to dispensaries to purchase the product inside the city limits under a set of regulations approved Monday. The city will allow businesses to manufacture...

New Jersey recreational marijuana legalization may be a highlight of 2018; it's possible but unlikely the Trump administration will crack down on the U.S. cannabis industry; and major mainstream corporations are "not going to miss out" on the business opportunities presented by the burgeoning...

Ollie Curme, the Back Bay resident and venture capitalist whose testimony mocking veterans and cancer patients at a Boston hearing on a medical marijuana dispensary went viral before it was revealed as an attempt at satire, is defending his controversial stunt. In an extended interview with...

Texas is weeks away from the first legal sale of medical marijuana. Two years after lawmakers legalized the drug for epilepsy patients, the state has licensed a company operating as Knox Medical to dispense the drug. CBS11 traveled to Winter Garden, Florida, where the company has already...