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The U.S. has seen a sea of change in public support for legalizing and medicalizing marijuana, with 57% of adults supporting legalization today compared with just 32% a decade ago, according to the Pew Research Center. A more recent Quinnipiac poll found higher approval numbers, with 61%...

Marijuana lounges won’t be opening in Clark County any time soon, as commissioners decided unanimously today to put off addressing the issue until at least December. “I’m very concerned and I want to protect the industry,” Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak said after an 80-minute...

Prior to passage of Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law, politicians and advocates spoke with compassion about how it would provide alternative care to the sick and infirm. Now altruism could be taking a backseat to capitalism. As the Heath Department tries to get the industry started...

Oregon's enforcement of marijuana production and sales will get its first audit from the secretary of state. The audit will offer an official look at how well Oregon regulates its marijuana program, which is run by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. The audit will look at how the state...

A line of a few people prior to Trulieve's downtown Bradenton medical marijuana store opening on Tuesday swelled quickly as dozens of patients filled to capacity the newly remodeled building at 1103 14th St. W. Miguel Couvertier, an Air Force veteran, waited patiently for his name to be...

Nine years after Michigan voters approved medical marijuana, government officials and patients don't know which pot shops will be open or closed in coming months because the laws are so confusing. How confusing? On the same day last week when the state announced that existing medical...

Although it's becoming more commonplace, medical marijuana is rarely discussed in U.S. medical schools, a new study shows. "Medical education needs to catch up to marijuana legislation," said senior author Dr. Laura Jean Bierut, a professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of...

Legal pot is popping up all around the country. Now, a Valley marijuana company is looking to cash in by buying an entire California town to build a pot paradise. An hour outside Las Vegas there's a dusty spot in the Mohave Desert called Nipton. More than 100 years ago, the railroad...

The builders of an award-winning home made from hemp hope that they inspire a shift towards making it a mainstream construction material. Balanced Earth recently won the Master Builders New South Wales Energy Efficient Building award for a home in the Byron Bay hinterland, in northern New South...

Tucked behind acres of corn, you wouldn't believe what your eyes see in a small inlet of farmland. It looks like something that shouldn't be there. It smells like, well, like a sweet version of pot. But, it's not marijuana. Hemp is being grown locally by two farmers, Glenn Rodes and Brian...

Six applicants have filed for four coveted medical cannabis dispensary permits, according to City Manager Gabriel Elliott. At 2 p.m. Friday, Elliott, Mayor Rich Kerr, Mayor Pro Tem Jermaine Wright and two residents appointed at-large to a subcommittee were scheduled to meet inside Kerr's...

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly killed a resolution that would have supported on-site use of cannabis at pot shops in Alaska on Thursday. The state's Marijuana Control Board is scheduled to revisit the issue during its Nov. 14-15 meeting in Anchorage. Public comments on the proposed...

When Clayton County sheriff's deputies responded to a domestic dispute earlier this month, they instead found a 9-foot-tall marijuana plant and another 4-foot-tall plant. The incident began Sept. 7 on Mockingbird Trail when Diane Hazelrigs told authorities her 30-year-old son, Douglas...

Saturday marked the first day that marijuana was decriminalized in New Hampshire. Possession of small amounts of the drug – three-quarters of an ounce or less – is now punishable only as a violation and fines of up to $300 for initial offenses. Previously, a first-time offense for...

The University of Maryland's School of Pharmacy canceled plans to offer training for those who work in the medical marijuana industry amid legal concerns. After consulting with the Maryland attorney general's office, the university asked pharmacy school officials to cancel the classes, a...

Police have arrested a man accused of running a large marijuana growing operation in Huntersville. Huntersville police officers said they seized 94 actively growing marijuana plants, with some more than 6 feet tall, approximately 50 pounds of marijuana and 17 guns, including 13 handguns and...

Quiet anticipation lines the walkway to the front door of the Department of Finance and Administration Sunday night in Little Rock. Doors were locked, offices empty, but in a few hours, last minute marijuana cultivation and dispensary applicants will come carrying lot a lot of paperwork to...

In a nondescript southwest Santa Rosa industrial building, workers wearing blue gloves and lab coats pack ground-up dried cannabis flowers into pre-rolled joints printed with the Marley Natural label created by the iconic reggae singer's estate. With the thermostat set at a crisp 67 degrees...

Provincial rules limiting recreational pot use to private property aren't going to work in the City of Toronto where people are more likely to rent or live close to each other, a cannabis lounge owner says. Abi Roach, a director of the Cannabis Friendly Business Association (CFBA) and owner...

Entrepreneurs looking to cash in on California’s new marijuana gold rush flocked to Los Angeles this week for the city’s Fourth Annual Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition, taking in advice and pitches from venture capitalists to a marijuana “sommelier”. Workshops were conducted...