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In a late-night vote, lawmakers passed a bill addressing recreational marijuana rules. The vote came during a one-day special session at the state house. The bill now heads to Governor LePage's desk, where he has ten days to either sign it, veto it, or let it go into law without his...

As wildfires have raged across Northern California, claiming lives and scorching more than 200,000 acres, they are also taking a toll on cannabis farmers who have lost both homes and valuable crops — and have little hope of getting help from insurance or banks in an industry that remains legally...

Utahns continue to show broad support for a proposed 2018 ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana in the state, according to a new poll by The Salt Lake Tribune and the University of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics. The new survey finds 75 percent of Utah voters either strongly...

A family-run plumbing company in Central Massachusetts has been used as a "front" for a large-scale marijuana distribution and growing business, authorities said just days after $6 million in marijuana was seized at a Clinton warehouse associated with the case. Federal complaints against...

Horowhenua's mayor wants the council to back hemp farming in a bid to increase the district's employment rate. It's far from "wacky backy" and would help keep young people in the district, mayor Michael Feyen says. Hemp had a stigma for its association with marijuana, but hemp has much...

A Wisconsin tribe is set to grow hemp in hopes of extracting oil from the plant that could help treat seizures and other health problems, despite uncertainty over its legality. The St. Croix Chippewa plan to begin production at the end of the month, the Wisconsin State Journal reported ...

The California wildfires have left numerous marijuana farmers wondering how they will recover without the help of federal aid. At least 34 cannabis farms in northern California were either partially damaged or completely destroyed in the blazes and unlike wine and agriculture farms, marijuana...

The Maine state legislature is set to vote on two different proposals Monday that will decide the timeline for purchasing recreational marijuana. The Maine Joint Select Committee on Marijuana Legalization implementation, or MLI, has been working on a bill to regulate marijuana infrastructure...

When Alex Roth's mother sent him an article announcing a new degree program being offered at Northern Michigan University, the sophomore immediately switched his major. Roth is now majoring in cannabis. The program, Medicinal Plant Chemistry, is the first program to offer a 4-year...

More than 100 Massachusetts cities and towns have imposed bans, moratoriums or other limits on marijuana shops since voters legalized the drug for recreational use last year, opening up a new battlefront in the debate over legal weed. Nearly two dozen communities north of Boston – including...

With New York's decriminalization of marijuana and the rise of near-odorless vaping – according to the Blinc Group, a cannabis-industry advocate, there are more than 6,000 purveyors in the five boroughs, selling vaping products – perhaps it's no wonder smoking weed on the job seems to be on the...

Medical marijuana has been on municipal agendas in Michigan a lot this year, and it could be intensifying in the days and weeks ahead. On Monday night alone, three area municipalities will be discussing ordinances that could govern new medical marijuana businesses being allowed by the state...

Ceres resident Bridget Ludy doesn't seem like your typical cannabis manufacturer. The 60-year-old married mother of two has lived in the Central Valley for the past 25 years. She is also a grandmother to two small children. She doesn't smoke or drink. And her company's Twitter feed is...

Canada's health minister says pilot projects have begun on roadside police testing for marijuana, and the plan is to have rules in place for edible cannabis around July 2019. "Our priority right now is to ensure that we can legalize cannabis by July 2018," Ginette Petitpas Taylor said Friday...

Canada's health minister says pilot projects have begun on roadside police testing for marijuana, and the plan is to have rules in place for edible cannabis around July 2019. "Our priority right now is to ensure that we can legalize cannabis by July 2018," Ginette Petitpas Taylor said Friday...

Last legislative session, Iowa lawmakers passed a bill that set the stage for medical marijuana production and distribution throughout the state and added to the list of illnesses that would make patients qualify for a perscription. Much to her dismay, Grimes resident Katie Krug's condition...

The first admitted insurance carrier has filed to provide coverage to California's legal cannabis industry and several more carriers have stated their intent to file products, according to state Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. It also appears that standardized insurance forms for the...

City leaders have a decision to make now that state lawmakers have revised medical marijuana laws. Traverse City officials must consider whether to allow five new types of medical marijuana-related businesses to operate within city limits, and if so, how many and where. The state Department...

Federal prosecutors said this week that a high-profile Obama-era prosecution of medical marijuana growers wasn't allowed because Congress voted to protect medical pot programs from federal interference. It's a dramatic development in a case that pitted four family members and a friend –...

California wildfires have destroyed dozens of cannabis farms just weeks before the state's legal recreational marijuana market goes live. 34 farms have been destroyed as of Friday, according to Hezekiah Allen, executive director of the California Growers Association. But he said that number is...