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The former head of France's anti-narcotics agency has been charged with complicity in drug smuggling as part of an inquiry into controversial methods used by the police to bring down drug barons, legal sources have said. François Thierry was charged on Thursday with complicity in the...

Two California businesses – one a beloved national brand and the other an upstart in the state's hottest sector – have teamed up for new product releases in two of the North Coast's top industries: beer and cannabis. Lagunitas Brewing Co. last week released its SuperCritical Ale, a hoppy beer...

It was a picture postcard California beach wedding. The bride wore white. The Pacific Ocean lapped at the altar. The violinist played Elvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling in Love. Then, upon being declared husband and wife, Zak Walton and Dani Geen inclined their heads, puckered their lips...

Businesses selling and processing medical marijuana were given the green light to do business in Tampa on Thursday. Tampa City Council members voted in favor of new rules explaining where dispensaries and processing facilities would be allowed to open. Earlier this year, the city council...

An estimated $1 million worth of marijuana was seized at a home off Jodeco Road Wednesday during the execution of search warrant by the Flint Circuit Drug Task Force. Major Chad Rosborough, the joint task force's commander, said approximately 1,250 pounds of marijuana were seized from the...

The American Legion adopted a resolution Thursday urging the federal government to allow Department of Veterans Affairs doctors to discuss and recommend medical marijuana in states where it's legal, adding to the group's efforts to get cannabis in the hands of veterans it could help. The...

Neighbors offended by the smell coming from a Two Rivers pot farm have gone to the state and the borough looking for relief. They have found none. The business is Herbal Instincts, an outdoor marijuana growing operation on Ream Lane, about 15 miles down Chena Hot Spring Road. The pot farm...

Denver’s voter-authorized program to allow social marijuana use at some businesses is ready for launch, city officials said Thursday as they announced they were ready to accept applications. But the initial batch of license requests for the first-of-its-kind program may not come in immediately...

The nascent Pennsylvania medical marijuana industry is creating new work for lawyers statewide. Three attorneys hoping to bring their expertise to this brave new world recently founded Pittsburgh-based Cannabis Legal Solutions. "A lot of people appreciate if their attorneys have knowledge of...

It's the latest health and nutrition "wow crop" to come out of our farmer's fields, but perhaps a bit misunderstood. Industrial Hemp is making a comeback after its debut during WWII, but now, the plant promises more uses than just rope and t-shirts. Just outside Callaway, Minnesota a...

South Carolina farmers aren't exactly breaking down doors to get licenses to grow hemp. No one has applied for one of the initial 20 available licenses since the application process opened Aug. 1. It ends Sept. 15. The General Assembly agreed earlier this year to allow farmers to start...

Sen. Jennifer Flanagan of Leominster is expected to deliver her letter of resignation Thursday, one day after Gov. Charlie Baker announced the veteran Statehouse lawmaker as his appointment to the state's newly formed Cannabis Control Commission. Although Flanagan, a 41-year-old Democrat...

Sonoma County tried to coax cannabis operators into stepping forward early and applying for local permission to do business with the promise of reduced land-use fines. But with the Aug. 31 deadline to avoid those costly penalties just one week away, the county has received a paltry number of...

Acting on a tip from federal authorities, drug agents seized about $1 million worth of marijuana Wednesday from a house in Henry County, a spokesman said. Officers with the Flint Circuit Drug Task Force found about 1,250 pounds of marijuana in a house on Chestnut Lane in the Stockbridge area...

California City is gearing up to be the next big player in the medical marijuana cultivation space. As 23ABC News has reported in the past, the city has been awarding business licenses to dozens of marijuana businesses in the cultivation, manufacturing and distribution spaces over the past...

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker isn't fighting against the war on drugs by himself. His legislation to end the federal ban on marijuana has the support of the Drug Policy Alliance, an advocacy group whose honorary board includes former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders and former Secretary of State...

In three of the first four states to start legal recreational pot sales, an increasing number of consumers are choosing bud over Budweiser. That conclusion comes from a study by New York-based investment and research firm Cowen and Co. In Colorado, Oregon and Washington, domestic beer sales...

It would be easy to mistake the Vashon Velvet pot farm for just another attractive Vashon Island estate: a picturesque farmhouse and a two-story horse barn sit in a grassy field surrounded by woods. A single deer lazily prances across the property. A long gravel driveway wraps far enough away...

Some 130 concerned residents spent two hours at the Mastick Senior Center last Sunday, Aug. 20. They discussed how Alameda should respond to California’s forthcoming regulations for production and distribution of marijuana. The new state regulations will take effect in January 2018. Mayor Trish...

"They are truly a public nuisance," said Sacramento Fire Deputy Chief Niko King when speaking about illegal cannabis home grows. There have been 11 fires in the last year, and half of those are due to illegal marijuana home grows. "They tap into the electrical systems," said King, "they...