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Oklahoma City - For the third straight year, Oklahoma medical marijuana advocates have come up short in their effort to get the issue on the state ballot, but this time it wasn't signatures they were lacking. It was time. Oklahomans for Health volunteers met the required 65,987-signature...

Santa Cruz, Calif. - A Santa Cruz nonprofit group that provides free medical marijuana to veterans says plants beat pills. Every first and third Monday of the month, hundreds of U.S. veterans line up at the Veterans of Foreign Wars building to pick up a brown bag full of free cannabis. "We...

Santa Cruz, Calif. - A Santa Cruz nonprofit group that provides free medical marijuana to veterans says plants beat pills. Every first and third Monday of the month, hundreds of U.S. veterans line up at the Veterans of Foreign Wars building to pick up a brown bag full of free cannabis. "We...

The last day of the Oregon State Fair was greeted by warm weather, clear skies and bustling crowds. The fair, which spanned 11 days and brought together competitions, rides, junk food and exhibits, has yet to tally the numbers, but spokespman Dan Cox said the fair was well on the way to...

A month after the rides went down, the blue ribbons were given out and the 4-H animals sold at auction, another type of fair came the Clatsop County Fairgrounds. The Hemp & Cannabis Fair, a traveling, all-in-one display for one of Oregon's newest industries, set up shop over the weekend...

When Joel Schneider first began doing business in Colorado, he wasn't planning on entering the cannabis industry. At the time, he was commuting back and forth from New York, managing several business ventures in Denver. Retail marijuana sales had recently been made legal in Colorado. "I was...

During Kush Tourism's signature half-day tour of Seattle-area marijuana businesses, guests admire leafy green plants at a growing facility and stop at a retail shop where anyone over the age of 21 can legally purchase up to an ounce of marijuana. Kush owner Michael Gordon, who launched his...

There's a new trend brewing in the coffee pots of Boulder County. It's green, growing and totally groovy. Two local startups are infusing the world's favorite bean with its favorite herb. Native Jack, out of Louisville, is canning a cold brew, Thai style beverage with spice, condensed milk...

Springfield - Springfield businesses in the city, which one local business owner says will keep her from bringing jobs to the area. The moratorium comes nearly three months after Gov. John Kasich signed a bill making cannabis legal for medical use under state law. That will go into effect next...

Springfield - Springfield businesses in the city, which one local business owner says will keep her from bringing jobs to the area. The moratorium comes nearly three months after Gov. John Kasich signed a bill making cannabis legal for medical use under state law. That will go into effect next...

A state government that's already lost hundreds of jobs this year is grappling with how to balance that with the workload that comes with the emergence of an entirely new industry: marijuana. Some Alaska municipalities have a plethora of questions about rules for new marijuana businesses -...

Recreational marijuana will be on the ballot in November. The Arizona Supreme Court on Aug. 31 rejected arguments of the opposing side of Proposition 205, which claimed the summary of the initiative and the text itself was too flawed to send to the ballot. Chief Justice Scott Bales said...

Bill Wright, 54, is an independent medical marijuana advocate who suffers from roughly 28 ailments, many of which are genetic. His heart has only two working valves and is kept beating by a defibrillator. He also suffers from Crohn's disease, an incurable bowel condition. "I do have reason...

Bill Wright, 54, is an independent medical marijuana advocate who suffers from roughly 28 ailments, many of which are genetic. His heart has only two working valves and is kept beating by a defibrillator. He also suffers from Crohn's disease, an incurable bowel condition. "I do have reason...

Dr. Stephen Brown has become a believer in medical marijuana. Since registering as a certifying physician 15 months ago, Brown has seen about 700 patients, and he believes it has helped a majority of them. While certifying patients is required under state law for patients to buy medical...

Dr. Stephen Brown has become a believer in medical marijuana. Since registering as a certifying physician 15 months ago, Brown has seen about 700 patients, and he believes it has helped a majority of them. While certifying patients is required under state law for patients to buy medical...

Tucson - There will be an initiative on the November ballot to legalize the recreational use of marijuana for adults 21 and older in Arizona. The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol submitted 258,582 petition signatures to the Secretary of State in late June. According to the...

Fall River - If you go to a hash bar in Amsterdam, your server will ask you first: What kind of high do you want? Do you want your head to float? Do you want your body to feel no pain? Are you going dancing? That, experts say, is a mature marijuana market. A good portion of the country could...

Over a year after the Virginia General Assembly passed a bill allowing certain institutions to grow hemp, seeds finally went into the ground this summer at Virginia Tech. Virginia House Bill 699 authorized the creation of the Industrial Hemp Research Program and set criteria for growing hemp...

Ottawa - The federal government says it is under a legal obligation to put the rights of medicinal marijuana users ahead of the rights of property owners. Health Canada was responding to criticism from a Coquitlam woman who said she incurred $135,000 in repair costs, caused by mould and damage...