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Since the passage last November of a measure that opened the door for medical marijuana dispensaries to operate in La Mesa, some residents have become increasingly anxious about their presence. No dispensaries have received a permit to operate, but the city acknowledges that shops selling...

Chris Tosi and longtime friend Peter Koverda were on a ski trip in Lake Tahoe last February and were relaxing in a hot tub when their new, cannabis-minded startup, Pulse, really began to take shape. Tosi had a professional background in business and tech – and a personal interest in growing weed...

Recreational marijuana is now closer than ever to becoming permitted by law in Michigan. A ballot petition being circulated by the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol is "well past" 250,000 signatures, according to the group's spokesman Josh Hovey. The state of Michigan requires 252,523...

Los Angeles lawmakers are laying the groundwork for what is widely expected to be one of the hottest markets for marijuana in the country, one that could bring more than $50 million in taxes to city coffers next year. The city is drafting rules to allow greenhouses that grow cannabis...

A man who grew cannabis in a bungalow which he had bought in Rhyl made £150,000 out of the illegal enterprise, a judge has decided. Defendant Timothy Bradley, 51, had previously claimed that another had grown the cannabis and that he came under duress to water the plants occasionally. But...

The largest city in northern Sonoma County is saying "no" to marijuana – no dispensaries, no cannabis businesses and no outdoor cultivation. The Windsor Town Council last week unanimously introduced an ordinance prohibiting any type of marijuana businesses within city limits, in part to...

Hemp seed has again been recommended for sale as food in Australia and New Zealand — with farmers confident government will allow it for human consumption by the end of next month. A decision by Food Standards Australia and New Zealand on Friday to permit the sale of low-and-no-THC hemp seed...

Four men were rescued from England's highest mountain after "becoming incapable of walking due to cannabis use", police have said. Cumbria police were called at about 6.30pm on Saturday after the group ran into difficulty on Scafell Pike, a 978-metre (3,210ft) peak in the Lake District...

Ventura County supervisors are being asked Tuesday to start the process for banning businesses that sell or produce marijuana for recreational use, but also order an analysis of the potential for growing hemp. Supervisors Linda Parks and John Zaragoza called for the ban in the unincorporated...

Oregon officials twice neglected to deliver key documents when The Oregonian/OregonLive sought to learn about a state-licensed day care operating in the home of a Portland marijuana entrepreneur. The search started July 10 with a public records request to the state Office of Child Care. It...

Just days after Michael Beasley said if the Knicks keep fading star Carmelo Anthony, they can comfortably make the playoffs with "four" players who can score 25 points per game, ESPN beef-stirrer Stephen A. Smith dissected Beasley's overly optimistic comments by suggesting Beasley is smoking...

Clint Younge was tormented by bullies as a boy in elementary school in Stoney Creek, Ontario, long before he discovered the power of cannabis. His classmates made fun of his nervous tics, a side effect of the high-dose pharmaceuticals he was being prescribed for ADHD. "Kids didn't know back...

James Griebe's son suffers involuntary twitching from a disorder called Tardive Dyskenisia. "It kills me to see him like this," he said. But he uses hemp oil to control it. "And it has absolutely almost corrected that," Griebe said, adding that small doses given three times a day allow his...

Oregon's Douglas County attempted to restrict hemp production under rules for growing marijuana before being warned the policy violated the state's "right to farm" law. Hemp is considered a crop under Oregon's land use law, which means it can be grown outright in farm zones. Medical and...

According to the Department of Agriculture, there are nearly 560 acres of hemp farm registered in Vermont. When the congressional farm bill passed in 2014, Vermont added its own twist to support a different kind of crop: hemp. This made the state marketable to the CEO and Founder of Vermont...

When more cannabis businesses begin operating in San Jacinto, Councilman Andrew Kotyuk said residents don't need to be struck with a case of reefer madness. "This is not Cheech and Chong," Kotyuk said. "This is a biotech doctorate and masters who work with highly trained technicians in a...

State regulators allowed a Portland man to have a childcare business in his home while owning a storefront dispensary selling marijuana. Those potentially dueling interests didn't surface until this summer, after two childcare employees quit and contacted the state. They accused the day care...

Legal marijuana is on its way back to Long Beach. LB Green Room, is on pace to open some time in the coming week, manager Adam Hijazi said. The business is in the same location, on Seventh Street near Rose Avenue, where it operated during an earlier period when city government regulated...

A Kula man was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine after he was arrested last year with a suitcase containing marijuana and marijuana concentrate at Molokai Airport. John Rossberg, 56, was placed on four years' probation as part of his sentence imposed Thursday. Rossberg was "on his way to a...

A state lawmaker and advocates who fought to get medical marijuana legalized in Pennsylvania say a rejected applicant for a dispensary and grower licenses should drop its effort to get the state's program halted. In a lawsuit filed in Commonwealth Court, Keystone ReLeaf asked the court to...