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Medical marijuana is legal in 23 states including New Jersey, but the ubiquitous social media giant Facebook apparently doesn't "like" it. Home pages run by three Garden State dispensaries and at least handful of others across the country have been deleted. The surprise move stunned...

The Sacramento City Council approved an ordinance Tuesday night that allows medical marijuana to be cultivated inside buildings. According to the new ordinance, the buildings can be up to 22,000 square feet, which is roughly the size of four and a half NBA basketball courts. The buildings...

A ban on medical marijuana cultivation, along with dispensaries and commercial delivery of the drug, won City Council approval Tuesday after speakers opposed the measure they said they would make them criminals. "Your panic is not my emergency," Michael Kimmel told council members. Medical...

Chula Vista City Council members have decided that the city will maintain its current laws that ban the cultivation of medical marijuana by individuals and businesses. The City Council voted unanimously Jan. 26 to clarify existing zoning rules as they apply to growing marijuana. "The...

Although some Illinois dispensaries have reported low patient enrollment nearly two years after the start of the state's medical cannabis program, Evanston's dispensary has seen steady business since its fall opening, an employee said. Pharmacannis, a medical marijuana provider and Evanston's...

South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs said Wednesday that an attempt to place an initiated measure on a statewide ballot to legalize marijuana for medical use has failed due to invalid signatures. Krebs said late Wednesday that the measure was rejected because it did not meet the...

Named after an Irish goddess of transformation and healing, Etain LLC is opening its most western medical marijuana dispensary in Syracuse Wednesday. The company, run by Amy, Hillary and Keeley Peckham, owns and operates two other dispensaries in Kingston and Albany with a manufacturing site in...

The effort to legalize medical marijuana in Wyoming is not over by a long shot. The petition drive is still alive, said Amber Sparks of the 420 Wyoming Political Action Committee. "We are pushing really hard to try to collect every signature we can in the next week and double our efforts,"...

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved on Tuesday a resolution allowing county staff to begin their process for creating rules and regulations for governing medical marijuana in Sonoma County, as allowed under the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act (MMRSA), which was passed...

Greg Vialpando, a Santa Fe auto mechanic who has been on disability aid since he injured his back on the job more than 15 years ago, says the opiates that doctors prescribed him nearly ruined his life. He shook as he stood up Wednesday, supporting himself with a cane to tell his story to a...

The cannabis industry is quickly becoming a magnet for female entrepreneurs. Medical or recreational marijuana is legal in 23 states and the District of Columbia. As legalization has increased, so have sales. In 2013, the industry was at $1.8 billion. In 2015, it was estimated at $5.4 billion...

The start-up world can expect to see a different kind of green in the next few years if the marijuana business grows as rapidly as some expect. Legal marijuana sales grew to $5.4 billion in 2015, up from $4.6 billion in the prior year, and sales are expected to grow by 25 percent to about...

A speaker at the Cannabis Collaborative Conference said the fast-growing industry has an entrepreneurial model to emulate in the organic food movement. "As big as natural food industry has grown, this new cannabis industry stands to make it small by comparison," said Tom Burns, who oversaw...

Dozens of Victorian children with severe epilepsy will soon be able to test a cannabis-based drug in the hope it will treat their seizures. The Austin Hospital in Melbourne is recruiting 60 children with intractable epilepsy to participate in a trial of cannabidiol (CBD) produced by an...

Medical marijuana dispensaries opened across New York state in January despite the low number of registered patients, doctors that will prescribe it and locations to obtain it. The owners of one dispensary in Syracuse said the program is just in the beginning stages and they expect it will...

Just last week, medical marijuana advocates had a sense of hope pleading with Governor Bruce Rauner. "We're not asking the governor to take ownership of this program. We realized it pre-dates him, but just don't strangle it. Let it grow," Revolution Enterprises CEO & Founder Tim McGraw said...

Members of the House Republican caucus heard pitches Tuesday for two approaches to legalizing medical marijuana, but House Speaker Greg Hughes, R-Draper, said the caucus likely won't take a position on the issue. "We had that debate in there, and some of that stuff can just fly. However it...

Voters won't get the chance — at least not this year — to decide whether medical marijuana should be legal in Wyoming. The Wyoming chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws confirmed Monday that the group will fall thousands of signatures short of getting the...

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors approved a ban on commercial medical marijuana delivery services at Tuesday's board meeting and adopted a permit system for private cultivation in code approved structures. According to county officials, the board considered the amendments to its ordinance...

After more than two hours of debate, selectmen Tuesday night voted to sign a "letter of non-opposition" for a nonprofit corporation to open a medical marijuana dispensary on Route 9. About 40 people filled the selectmen's meeting room to weigh in, with the majority worried about the...