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The battle against a medical marijuana dispensary opening on Rte. 9 is heading to Town Meeting. At Monday's Planning Board meeting, Marnie Hoolahan, who lives on Clifford Street, presented three citizen petitions to amend the town's zoning bylaws on registered marijuana dispensaries opening...

With comprehensive medical marijuana regulations kicking in and full-scale legalization headed for a vote, cannabis entrepreneurs and policymakers convened in Sacramento on Tuesday to discuss their industry's future. Put on by the California Cannabis Industry Association, the conference...

Australians are expected to consume as much as 8000kg of medical cannabis worth $100 million in just the first year of being legalised, according to a study by the University of Sydney. The figure, contained in a white paper produced by the University of Sydney Business School and medical...

After Illinois, Gainesville has moved a step closer to allowing medical marijuana dispensaries to set up shop in the city. City commissioners on Thursday voted to change the city's land development code to allow dispensaries in certain areas zoned for offices, medical services or urban mixed...

Dispensary, compassion club, pot shop; they are all terms to describe a facility in which medical marijuana is sold to patients in Michigan under the 2008 Michigan Medical Marihuana Act, and they are illegal... kind of. In 2013, the Michigan Supreme Court, in a case against a Mt. Pleasant...

Nearly three months into the launch of the state's medical marijuana program, the Cuomo administration estimates that roughly half of the patients deemed eligible have received the drug, a Department of Health spokesman told POLITICO New York. The so-called Compassionate Care Act kicked off...

A new survey of state residents likely to vote this fall found that a clear 53% majority of Michiganders would just say yes to legalizing and taxing marijuana. The survey's result was no surprise to groups hoping to gather 253,000 signatures in Michigan to get a marijuana measure on November...

Tim Cullen's marijuana business brought in millions of dollars last year, but he's had a hard time finding a bank to take the money. He's cycled through 14 checking accounts in six years. Recently, he said, a bank closed all his personal accounts, including college savings for his 3-year-old...

Whether recreational marijuana becomes legal in Vermont following this legislative session is anyone's guess. But the public has another opportunity to make their opinions known this Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the State House, where House committees on Judiciary and Government Operations are...

As members of the House review legislation that would legalize recreational use of marijuana, highway safety has emerged as a key issue. As members of the House review legislation that would legalize recreational use of marijuana, highway safety has emerged as a key issue. After clearing...

With just 16 sanctioned medical marijuana dispensaries left in San Jose, one councilman wants to explore allowing pot deliveries to patients' homes as a way to "undercut illicit operations." "We do know, at least anecdotally, that deliveries are happening," said Councilman Ash Kalra, who...

By many accounts, Monday was a banner day for the marijuana movement in the courts. In the nation's capital, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit filed by Nebraska and Oklahoma to overturn Colorado's legalized marijuana program, meaning that if the two states' attorneys general...

Karley Davis has good days and bad days. On the good ones, Karley, nearly 4, has a dozen small seizures that can be controlled with medicine. On the bad ones, she may have 100 seizures, some so strong they can't be controlled by heavy "rescue" drugs, and she has to be rushed to the...

Voters this year will again consider whether Florida should join 23 states and legalize full-strength marijuana for medical use. The proposed Amendment 2 won 58 percent of the needed 60 percent voter approval in 2014. This time, backers of the proposed constitutional amendment have the benefit...

The passage of a medical marijuana bill this week by the state House has given hope to a Worcester mother who treats her 12-year-old son for daily seizures. "Ryan was nine months old when he was diagnosed with infantile spasms. The doctors call it intractable epilepsy now that he is older,"...

A Toronto mother of three has opened up a medical marijuana shop on Parkdale's main strip on Queen Street West and a passer-by wouldn't even know it. Nestled between a flower shop and a bar, The Caylx Wellness Centre has no enlarged marijuana leaf emblazoned on the store front, its name isn't a...

After months of waiting, the rules for medicinal marijuana could be ready to move forward. Attorney General Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson said she hopes to have the rules and regulations as amended by her office out soon. "It's just about done. It's been a long process," she said. Her office has...

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Thursday said she supports state experimentation with marijuana regulations, but she argued that more research needs to be conducted before decriminalizing the drug on a federal level. "What the states are doing right now needs to be...

The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors' Medical Marijuana Ad Hoc Committee unveiled its recommendations for countywide medical cannabis cultivation permits Tuesday. If revised and adopted by the board quickly, permits could be issued in late spring or summer by the county Department of...

Medical marijuana has been used to treat everything from cancer to cataracts, but in Colorado, it cannot be prescribed to treat post traumatic stress disorder. That's the reason behind a lawsuit by some veterans against the state. Among them is Curt Bean, who spent this teenage years in Iraq...