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Voters will decide the legality of marijuana sales in Fairbanks and the Fairbanks North Star Borough on Oct. 3. And, with municipal elections fast approaching, cannabis opponents and advocates are working to push voter turnout in their favor. Alaska voters legalized commercial marijuana...

For a group of medical cannabis advocates, Saturday was about educating the public so they could, in turn, educate their state lawmakers. At the Indiana Medical Cannabis Town Hall Meeting, lawmakers, professors, veterans and other medical marijuana advocates came together at the Indiana...

Growing up in Pittsburg, Curtis Ohlson and his best friend, Demetrio Ramirez, always had their Ralph Kramden ("The Honeymooners") get-rich-quick' dreams about them. They never got rich quick, but dreams did come true. Both majored in music at Los Medanos College, yet one stayed on the...

A medical cannabis dispensary may be coming to Mulberry next year. Mulberry Mayor Gary Baxter said the city was approached by a company called Natural State Healthcare after the beginning of 2017, following the 2016 general election, during which Arkansas voters approved Issue 6 on the...

Every year in April, Jiang Xingquan sets aside part of his farm in northern China to grow cannabis. The size of the plot varies with market demand but over the last few years it has been about 600 hectares. Like every other hemp farmer in Hexin in Heilongjiang province near the Russian...

A multi-agency law enforcement effort eradicated illegally grown marijuana plants with an estimated street value of about $23 million over the last two months, according to Commander Saul Lopez of the San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force. Four suspects were arrested on suspicion of crimes...

Native American tribes want to begin growing and selling marijuana. They hope it will help end poverty on reservations, the large areas where many Native Americans live. However, there is uncertainty about the future of US marijuana policy. Cannabis is the plant that produces marijuana. The...

The future of the cannabis industry in Napa County and its cities is still uncertain despite the passing of Proposition 64 last year. Local leaders met again this week to discuss the possibilities during a meeting of the Napa Countywide Cannabis Roundtable. Some members of the roundtable...

At least two legislative bills will be introduced in support of legalizing medical marijuana to treat Hoosier patients, two legislators told a gathering of 100 people at a town hall on Saturday. "These are ordinary Hoosiers who are in a lot of pain and suffering who want the opportunity to...

Nevada's gambling regulators are grappling with how to deal with the state's latest legal vice – recreational marijuana– and they've made it clear that pot doesn't belong in casinos. In the first of a series of policy discussions on Thursday, the Nevada Gaming Commission reiterated that as...

A growing market for industrial hemp as food, fiber and nutraceuticals is gaining ground in west central Minnesota and could find a place in Kandiyohi County. There's at least one field of hemp planted this year in Chippewa County and a food-grade processing facility is being established in...

The pharmacies selling pot were doing a brisk business. After Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize marijuana sales for recreational use last month, some of the pharmacies struggled to keep up with the demand. Then came the stern letters from American banks...

Monday night could bring the next step toward ratifying rules for medical marijuana facilities in Upper Gwynedd. The township's commissioners could vote to advertise an ordinance that would allow medical marijuana growers and dispensaries, but only in two specific portions of the township...

Promoting cannabis as a safer alternative to alcohol was a tenet of the marijuana legalization movements in Colorado and other states. Early data indicate that attitude continues when people get behind the wheel. A recent Colorado Department of Transportation survey found that 72 percent...

Oneida County will be getting a new Dutch-style greenhouse for growing medical marijuana. MedMen, the medical marijuana company that started manufacturing products in Utica in January, now has an indoor growing operation at the site of the Brightwaters Farm greenhouses in North Utica, said...

An arm of the White House's antidrug office has asked Massachusetts and several other states where medical marijuana is legal to turn over information about registered patients, triggering a debate over privacy rights and whether state officials should cooperate with a federal administration...

Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona have seized a nearly 100-pound (45 kilogram) bundle of marijuana after spotting it flying over the border fence. Surveillance video on Wednesday captured the large package launching through the air over the fence from Mexico to the U.S. Agents on the...

Thurston County Commissioners pondered their next step in regulating marijuana operations in the county on Wednesday, especially in the Grand Mound area where a number of operations are licensed or under review. Currently, the county has a set of interim regulations in place that are set to...

A house fit for Grand Designs is under construction in Canberra's inner north. Once completed, the O'Connor knockdown rebuild will be carbon neutral, termite proof and fire resistant. And it's made of hemp. When home owner Rowan Woodburn approached designer Angela Knock to draw up plans...

A drug dealer has been jailed after a police sniffer dog found cannabis he was hiding in a toy egg buried in the garden. Officers recovered more than £2,000 worth of cannabis and £500 of cocaine from 23-year-old Jamie Coles' home, along with £2,000 in cash he had stashed in a box of sweets...