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People looking to break into Michigan's medical marijuana industry would need to come with a lot of capital, per recommendations issued by the Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation made public on Tuesday. The Medical Marihuana Licensing Board is charged with issuing licenses to businesses...

Legalize Maine has come out against the proposed legislative rewrite of a voter-approved recreational marijuana law, saying the bill scheduled for a special session vote Monday isn't "ready for prime time." The group's president, Paul T. McCarrier, said the amendment to the state Marijuana...

Voters in this year's New Jersey governor's race are not just picking Chris Christie's successor. Their choice will dictate whether or not marijuana for recreational use will be legalized in New Jersey. Electing Democrat Phil Murphy means New Jersey would soon join eight other states in...

Illinois State Police said they arrested three people and seized 62 pounds of cannabis worth $150,000 during an Interstate 70 traffic stop west of Vandalia on Oct. 11. Police said a trooper made the stop at 4:37 p.m. because the car was following too closely in traffic. The trooper found the...

Legislation being considered by City Council would welcome the testing, growing and manufacturing of medical marijuana, but prohibit dispensaries within the city. An eight-page proposal to amend the city's development code has the support of Mayor William Judge's administration and the city's...

On a warm evening this past summer, a group of women aged 24-70+ gathered at a community center in Seattle, to share stories of their cannabis use. One described her hilarious encounter with cannabis-infused sexual lubricant. Another described the side-effects of her chemotherapy and how medical...

The 85 words almost seemed an afterthought when Congress hurriedly crammed them into a massive budget bill late in the Obama administration, as if lawmakers wanted to acknowledge America's outlook on marijuana had changed, but not make a big deal of it. Almost three years later, a...

It’s hardly unusual for police in the Sacramento region to find an illegal marijuana grow house in an otherwise quiet suburb. But in several recent police raids, the occupants of these grow houses have turned out to be Chinese nationals, raising questions about about who is recruiting them and...

Alaska marijuana grower Mike Emers has been losing sleep with a vote fast approaching that he says could shutter his family's business and financially ruin them. The statewide initiative that legalized recreational marijuana in 2014 allows local governments to ban pot businesses within their...

A senior deputy minority leader strongly opposed on Monday the passage of a measure decriminalizing the use of marijuana. Party-list Rep. Lito Atienza of Buhay said the Philippine Medical Association has rejected the House Bill (HB) 6517 outright, declaring marijuana "contrary to the policy...

A Round Lake Beach woman is facing up to 30 years in prison on drug charges after police say they confiscated an estimated $3 million of marijuana from her home and a storage unit, authorities said Monday. Maria T. Villa-Mauleon, 30, of 400 block of Meadow Green Drive, is charged with...

The Board of Selectmen will discuss whether to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use Monday evening. Phil DeCologero, chairman of the selectmen, said the board will not take a vote on the issue at that time. Massachusetts voters approved the legalization of recreational pot last...

Officials are expecting a rush Dec. 15 when Michigan begins offering applications to people who want to start a medical marijuana business and be part of what is expected to be a $700-million-a-year industry in the state. "We may have 50. We may have 1,500. We may have 5,000," Shelly...

Here are some of the things Martha Stewart has done on her new show with Snoop Dogg: She has worn a blinged-out cheese grater on a chain around her neck. She has drunk out of what can only be described as a pimp cup. She has taste-tested a stoner recipe for a pizza omelet. She has name-dropped...

Ben Oakley's life would be far more challenging without the medicinal cannabis oil he is forced to buy on the black market. The 21-year-old suffers from a one-in-a-million neurological disease called stiff-person syndrome that causes excruciating body spasms that make him feel like he is...

Andrew Lopas' plans to bring his marijuana business out of the black market with a legal, profitable and organic pot farm went up in smoke in the wildfires that have scorched Santa Rosa, California. After four decades of growing pot illegally, the 54-year-old saw an opportunity last year to...

The budding marijuana industry is spurring new research around cannabis that will have long-term effects on a variety of fields, from farming to new medicine, as companies look for solid scientific data on the substance. With the looming legalization of recreational pot next summer, and the...

Voters in Fairbanks and the Fairbanks North Star Borough embraced the Interior's cannabis industry Oct. 3, when they decisively shut down propositions A and 1. Now some of the entrepreneurs feel they can finally move full steam ahead. At Pakalolo Supply Company, where Alaska's first legal...

The fourth annual Cannabis World Congress and Business Exposition (CWCB Expo) was surprisingly sober. At the Hynes Convention Center, legal cannabis startups mingled with investment groups and established companies trying to get into what they see as a burgeoning market. "It's like the...

Several former NFL players advocated the use of cannabis as a healing medicine Saturday during the Southwest Cannabis Conference and Expo in Phoenix. A six-member panel consisted of four former NFL athletes – including Marvin Washington, Mark Restelli, Jim McMahon and Grant Mattos –...