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A 30-year-old man from Oakland County has big plans for cultivating medical marijuana in Capac. "Basically to take it out of the basement and make it commercial," said Matt Roman. His proposal includes a development of 600,000 to 850,000 square feet on about 60 acres. Roman said he'll...

Secretary of State Alison Grimes' New Year's resolution is a bit blunt: Medical marijuana must be legalized in Kentucky to help veterans suffering from PTSD and others who are painfully ill. "This is an issue of which I hoped the commonwealth would have already addressed," Grimes told Courier...

The Police in Benue State have arrested a 70-year-old man with 21 bags of dry leaves suspected to be Indian hemp in Afia village of Sankera-Zaki Biam in Ukum Local Government Area of the state. State Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, paraded the suspect, Kwaghir Adzua alongside his teenage...

A power station in Olching, Bavaria, blazed like it was 4/20 yesterday after German authorities used it to burn around 550kg of marijuana. The weed, Südeutsche Zeitung reported, could have provided close to 3.8 million joints. It was discovered by the Munich Customs Department in a Serbian...

Peter Bernard's Yuletide plans include dressing up in a tuxedo emblazoned with marijuana leaves, donning a green Santa hat and doling out cookie bars made with marijuana to his friends from a big pillowcase. "That's me exercising my right to give marijuana this Christmas," said Bernard, a...

Port Hueneme police uncovered an illegal marijuana dispensary 10 days before the City Council decided to allow recreational and medicinal marijuana dispensaries. David Marruffo, 40, of Oxnard, was arrested in connection with selling marijuana out of the smoke shop he owned at 213 E. Channel...

Marijuana consumers are likely to have a flood of options when pot becomes legal next summer and now a not-for-profit group is stepping in to help determine which products to trust. The National Institute for Cannabis Health and Education said its CannabisWise certification will test...

Unions have caught a whiff of a rare opportunity to organize a whole new set of workers as recreational marijuana becomes legal in California. The United Farm Workers, Teamsters and United Food and Commercial Workers are looking to unionize the tens of thousands of potential workers involved...

National Basketball Association (NBA) superstars are endorsing and issuing testimonies on the medical benefits of regulated marijuana use, something the principal author of the medical marijuana bill vowed to cite and present during plenary debates on the measure. Isabela Rep. Rodito Albano...

A man who was caught transporting almost €60,000 worth of cannabis in Limerick told gardai he had intended selling the drugs to clear a €10,000 debt he owed. Patrick Foley, aged 28, who has an address at Brookville Avenue, Tipperary Town has pleaded guilty to possession of around 3kgs of...

Information booklets on medicinal cannabis, which aim to make it easier for doctors to prescribe the controversial drug, have been released. Advocates have placed part of the blame on the low adoption of medicinal cannabis products on most doctors having little knowledge about it. While...

It was a telling setting for a decision on whether post-traumatic stress disorder patients could use medical marijuana. Against the backdrop of the nation's largest Veterans Day parade, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in November he would sign legislation making New York the latest in...

California is days away from launching a legal marketplace for adults to buy and sell recreational marijuana. On Jan. 1, the state will carry through on a vision voters endorsed by passing Proposition 64 last year. Yet as legal cannabis moves from campaign pitch to reality – amid lots of...

Dozens of residents across Western Kentucky got up close and personal with U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Tompkinsville, this week during his first marathon meeting with local constituents. Comer has a branch office at Madisonville City Hall, and he invited everyone within the 1st Congressional...

The committee in charge of creating the framework for legalizing recreational marijuana in the state will enter the upcoming legislative session with renewed vigor, hoping to forge a document that passes gubernatorial muster and reflects the will of the people. The House last month upheld...

Former Clemson football coach Danny Ford and ex-Rep. Chip Limehouse are two of the 20 farmers in South Carolina picked to legally grow hemp. The 20 farmers were chosen last week from more than 130 applicants in a hemp-growing pilot program approved by state lawmakers this year. The farmers...

Edmonton police are promising to crack down on black market marijuana sales, after a pair of recent raids on two illegal cannabis operations in south Edmonton. Acting on a tip, Edmonton police on Nov. 30 went to a business in a commercial area near 46th Avenue and 101st Street, where they say...

Local lawmakers say it's unlikely the West Virginia Legislature will consider legalizing recreational marijuana in 2018, as the state has more pressing issues. Senate Majority Leader Ryan Ferns, R-Ohio, said a move to make the use of cannabis lawful might not even prove financially beneficial...

Medical marijuana is coming to West Ocean City in about a month's time, after the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission granted final approval to Positive Energy last week. The dispensary, at 9939 Jerry Mack Road, is expected to fully open in late January once product is received, according to...

Advocates for the cultivation, distribution and sale of medical marijuana won an important victory Wednesday when the Oceanside City Council agreed to forward the recommendations of an ad hoc committee to city staffers for more work. The committee, after a six-month series of meetings with...