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The Northern California wildfires this week have destroyed at least seven marijuana farms just months before the state begins licensing legal sales of cannabis, making it the "worst year on record" for loss of crops, an industry leader said Tuesday. Many growers lost their homes and farms in...

A new staffer faces disciplinary action after a tweet from the Atlanta City Council's verified account created a political firestorm early Wednesday. The erroneous tweet, which indicated Mayor Kasim Reed vetoed a measure intended to reduce penalties for possession of small amounts of...

Local law enforcement and community leaders gathered in Grand Traverse County on Tuesday as a statewide petition drive tries to get recreational marijuana legalization on the November 2018 ballot. The Traverse Narcotics Team brought in a speaker from Colorado, where it's already legal...

At least three Muskegon city commissioners said they support a proposed ordinance allowing medical marijuana facilities in Muskegon - including dispensaries - as long as they are confined to a special district off Seaway Drive. Nearly 50 people attended the commission's work session Monday...

California marijuana growers north of San Francisco continue to face mandatory evacuation orders as well as likely tens of millions of dollars in crop damage and loss amid widespread wildfires in Wine Country and surrounding areas. Hezekiah Allen, executive director of the California Growers...

Soon, people seeking medical marijuana in Ventura will not have to travel to get it. They’ll be able to get it delivered from one of up to five locally licensed dispensaries. The City Council voted 6-0 to allow the medical marijuana deliveries, with Neal Andrews absent. The dispensaries can’t...

Medical marijuana is on the minds of county leaders as they gather in Bismarck for their annual conference. Local government representatives gathered for their first session on Monday to discuss the impacts of the legalization of medical marijuana on counties. Association of Counties...

MPs and activists gathered outside Parliament for a "cannabis tea party" demanding the legalization of the drug for medicinal purposes. Organized by the United Patients Alliance, a group that hopes to legalize the drug for those suffering from chronic conditions, including multiple sclerosis...

Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that current Attorney General Jeff Sessions has an "almost obsession with marijuana," and said the Justice Department was right to allow states to regulate recreational marijuana sales. As attorney general from 2009-2015, Holder presided over a...

Once home to a Waffle House, a new business is emerging on Boynton Beach Boulevard that's part of the growing medical marijuana industry in Palm Beach County and the state. Called the Florida Medical Marijuana Health Center, two Boca Raton doctors specializing in medical marijuana will...

A company with a state application pending for a marijuana cultivation license is asking Carlisle to further rollback its temporary ban to permit marijuana processing. Representatives from Ohio Craft Cultivators LLC are scheduled to make a presentation during tonight's village council...

Reading's mayor called it a sad day for the city as he walked out of Monday night's city council meeting. Mayor Wally Scott left council chambers, taking Managing Director Glenn Steckman with him, after council members approved a resolution regarding penalties for marijuana possession. The...

At the end of June, Marc Privitera planted nearly an acre of hemp seeds at his farm in Ellisburg. 100 days later, the result is a healthy harvest. "This is a great example of you get good vegetative when you plant early in the season," Privitera said. With an old John Deere combine...

During World War II, Janesville and other communities across southern Wisconsin petitioned the U.S government to build a lucrative crop processing plant near their cities. The crop would be used primarily to build rope for the war effort, and a factory could provide an economic boom to a...

Arkansas accountants might have been given the all clear to provide professional services to medical marijuana businesses in the state, but some of the largest accounting firms in Northwest Arkansas and the Fort Smith metro are weighing their options on whether they'll serve them anytime soon...

Effective immediately medical marijuana dispensaries can set up shop within the town limits provided they comply with restrictions imposed by Town Council, which in a split vote approved an ordinance allowing the establishments. The council voting 3-2 Oct. 3 enacted an ordinance allowing the...

Legal pot growers are pushing prices and rents for industrial properties to unheard-of heights in some areas of the city of Sacramento. Warehouses and light-industrial buildings are selling for twice the usual asking prices, and rents have skyrocketed to four or five times normal in the...

California marijuana growers north of San Francisco were facing mandatory evacuation orders as well as potentially millions of dollars in crop damage and loss amid widespread wildfires in the region. Erich Pearson, director of SPARC Farms in Glen Ellen south of the Tubbs Fire reported on...

This weekend, the Higher Fellowship lead a rally outside of the courthouse in Terre Haute. "Our goal today is to educate the general public about medical cannabis and to inform them of legislation going on," said Bobby Jo Young, Higher Fellowship President. A bill proposing the use of medical...

A state lawmaker said he will file a bill that would legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana for adults in Kentucky as an effort to get more tax revenue for the state's ailing pension systems. Sen. Dan Seum, a Republican from Louisville, said that lawmakers have been...