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Expecting California voters will legalize recreational marijuana use next year, San Francisco is assembling a task force to propose regulations for the industry, addressing everything from drug potency to where pot businesses can locate. Cancer survivors, those living with HIV, business owners...

Marijuana businesses have long proclaimed that cannabis is drawing visitors to Colorado. Now they have proof. A study commissioned by the Colorado Tourism Office and presented to the office's board of directors on Wednesday shows legal weed as a growing motivator for trips to Colorado –...

Just to the south of the hulking Stern Beverage beer-distribution warehouse in Milan sits a relatively tiny and decidedly nondescript building. It has massive rocks between the parking lot and the structure that look decorative but are actually a low-tech security measure designed to prevent a...

A Moncton man dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and chronic pain is fighting for permission to vape medical marijuana while staying in the Dr. Georges-L-Dumont University Hospital Centre. Michel Arsenault says he was prescribed medical marijuana in 2005 to deal with...

A Moncton man dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and chronic pain is fighting for permission to vape medical marijuana while staying in the Dr. Georges-L-Dumont University Hospital Centre. Michel Arsenault says he was prescribed medical marijuana in 2005 to deal with...

State lawmakers could likely establish a system to tax and regulate medical marijuana dispensaries this month, but many question whether those businesses will ever thrive in West Michigan. Over the past five years, dispensaries have primarily been located in places like Lansing, Ann Arbor and...

State lawmakers could likely establish a system to tax and regulate medical marijuana dispensaries this month, but many question whether those businesses will ever thrive in West Michigan. Over the past five years, dispensaries have primarily been located in places like Lansing, Ann Arbor and...

When Sheila Dundon began chemotherapy treatments to combat breast cancer in 2007, she experienced all the side effects she'd seen in patients as a registered nurse. She felt the shooting pains, the pale-in-the-face nausea, the unwillingness to get out of bed each morning. One symptom she...

A new invention may soon make it easier for police who pull over risky drivers to test them for marijuana impairment on the spot, in addition to the usual alcohol breath test. A marijuana breathalyzer will begin clinical trials early next year, the Oakland, California-based Hound Labs Inc...

Anchorage Assembly members are proposing an April ballot measure to create a 5 percent tax on future retail marijuana sales. Ernie Hall, chair of the Assembly's committee on marijuana regulation and taxation, said Friday the marijuana sales tax should cover the costs of enforcement and...

Ellensburg's two recreational marijuana shops – Cannabis Central and The Green Shelf – could both begin selling medical-grade marijuana on July 1, 2016. The Liquor and Cannabis Board approved both shops for medical endorsements, which would allow them to sell higher-grade marijuana products...

Every year Colombian mother Ines Cano celebrates her daughter's birthday by getting a butterfly tattoo, her way of giving thanks that little Luna has survived another year of chronic epilepsy. Ines is up to 12 tattoos now, and is hopeful of adding many more thanks to the medical marijuana...

Every year Colombian mother Ines Cano celebrates her daughter's birthday by getting a butterfly tattoo, her way of giving thanks that little Luna has survived another year of chronic epilepsy. Ines is up to 12 tattoos now, and is hopeful of adding many more thanks to the medical marijuana...

A state appeals court has upheld a ruling that Sparta police didn't have the authority to search a medical marijuana patient's home in 2013 and charge him with possession of marijuana. Scott Waselik, now 25, had initially argued that he had a right to the marijuana in his home, because he is...

Growing a plant that’s still illegal to cultivate under most circumstances requires special growing practices. But companies in New York say they expect to meet a Jan. 1 deadline to get medical marijuana on the market. The state granted five licenses for growing legal marijuana for medicinal...

Growing a plant that’s still illegal to cultivate under most circumstances requires special growing practices. But companies in New York say they expect to meet a Jan. 1 deadline to get medical marijuana on the market. The state granted five licenses for growing legal marijuana for medicinal...

When Jonathan Zaid turned 18, his mom gave him an unusual birthday present — one that would turn out to be life-changing. Zaid had been diagnosed at 14 with a pain syndrome that caused constant, daily headaches. He tried dozens of prescription medications and even had to drop out of school for...

When Jonathan Zaid turned 18, his mom gave him an unusual birthday present — one that would turn out to be life-changing. Zaid had been diagnosed at 14 with a pain syndrome that caused constant, daily headaches. He tried dozens of prescription medications and even had to drop out of school for...

Sen. Tommy Garrett, the sponsor of legislation to legalize marijuana in Nebraska, said he doesn’t use drugs or alcohol. Garrett said medical marijuana oil should be legalized to help Nebraskans who cannot get help any other way. Garrett, who is from Omaha, held a press conference Friday in...

Sen. Tommy Garrett, the sponsor of legislation to legalize marijuana in Nebraska, said he doesn’t use drugs or alcohol. Garrett said medical marijuana oil should be legalized to help Nebraskans who cannot get help any other way. Garrett, who is from Omaha, held a press conference Friday in...