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A dozen cannabis producers from across Canada want to launch a co-operative in Alberta, where they would sell the drug online and in street-level stores – and they're promising extra revenues for the government. A day after the province re-opened public consultations on a new cannabis market...

At the end of today's First Ministers Meeting in Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told unsuspecting premiers about his plan to tax recreational cannabis. He proposed that the federal government impose a dollar-a-gram excise tax up to prices of $10. On cannabis priced higher than $10 a...

For civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton, cannabis legalization lands squarely under his purview. "I will never tell you how to grow marijuana, I don't know how to do that," Sharpton told an audience in Boston Thursday. "But I know how to agitate." Sharpton's remarks came during the...

A year ago it might have been taboo for a utility company to set up shop at a conference devoted to marijuana, but no one batted an eye Thursday when a representative from National Grid got up to talk about how his company works with cannabis cultivators. "I get a lot of snickers when I tell...

Dozens of towns around the state have spent the past year scrambling to ban recreational marijuana operations within their borders since voters approved legalization last November. But a last-minute change to a proposed legislative rewrite of the Marijuana Legalization Act would make those...

A Pasco County senior citizen and her son say the nursing home where she lives is denying her potential pain relief, by refusing to allow her to have the medical marijuana she has a legal prescription to take. The controversy could affect residents of long-term care facilities throughout...

Every day, Anna Denny encounters people who know their way around a joint. Denny owns Elevated 916, a smoke shop in north Sacramento that sells tobacco products and smoking accessories. But many of her customers don’t limit their smoking to tobacco. Because they’ve been there, done that, Denny...

After a three-and-a-half hour hearing Tuesday on cannabis regulations, San Luis Obispo county officials voted to continue the conversation to Oct. 17. Dozens of county residents attended the meeting to provide input on the regulations now before the board of supervisors. Wayne Moody is a...

Just because marijuana is legal in California doesn’t mean people can drive around stoned. The state is establishing methods and protocols for testing drivers’ blood for marijuana and determining the legal limit for marijuana impairment while driving. “There are companies developing tests...

Twenty years after California voters legalized marijuana for medicinal use, they took the next big step at the ballot box last November by deciding it's OK to toke for fun too. But while 57 percent of the state's voters embraced the recreational use of pot by approving Proposition 64, South...

Canada is set to become the first industrialized nation to legalize and regulate marijuana from production to consumption by next July, but increasingly, Canadians are wondering: What's the hurry? The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pressing ahead with legislation to legalize...

They are trading green for green and reaching new heights when it comes to pot sales in Washington. By 2020, the state could see $2.4 billion in marijuana sales annually. But depending on what happens in the Legislature, you may no longer have to go to retail shops for pot. The state is...

Voters in some parts of Alaska rejected efforts to ban commercial marijuana cultivation and retail sales, three years after the nation's largest state passed a voter initiative legalizing the recreational use of the drug. The votes this week came during local elections in the state's major...

Police pulled over a car with a faulty brake light in Torquay and found almost £2,000 worth of drugs inside. Half a dozen wraps of cannabis were stuffed inside a Tesco bag in the passenger footwell, magistrates in Newton Abbot were told. There was also a smaller amount in a plastic box by...

The cannabis application period closed Monday, meaning companies are one step closer to finding out if they will be allowed to obtain permits to do business in Hanford. The application period opened Aug. 2 and gave medical cannabis businesses a full two months to perfect their applications...

The San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday quashed former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan's plans to open a high-end cannabis dispensary in San Francisco's Outer Sunset District. The board's 9-2 vote to withdraw the permit for the Apothecarium cannabis club was the dramatic finale to a raucous appeal...

Meme Binko is thinking about selling the auto body repair shop in Irvington for 35 years, though the Mountainside resident isn't looking to leave New Jersey. Instead, she's contemplating whether to open a new shop she could operate with her husband and son — one that sells cannabis products...

A new Atlanta ordinance eliminating jail time and reducing penalties for having small amounts of marijuana will allow officers to focus on eliminating violent crimes instead of petty ones, the city's police chief said. Marijuana remains illegal in Georgia, and the ordinance addresses only the...

City councilors debated Tuesday at City Hall whether campaign donations that come from the marijuana industry should be subject to more disclosure requirements than other money. "I think we should all know who's getting what from whom and when," City Council President Kevin A. Jourdain said...

For sale: One never-used permit to grow medical marijuana in the state of Pennsylvania. Includes a turnkey operation with a 47,000-square-foot former beverage warehouse in Reading outfitted with state-of-the-art cultivation pods and hash-oil processing equipment. Price: $20 million. Rumors...