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The Police Command in Enugu State says it has arrested a dismissed officer of the Department of State Service (DSS) and another for alleged possession of 16 bags of cannabis Sativa (a.k.a. Indian hemp). Mr Ebere Amaraizu, the Police Public Relations Officer, in a statement issued in Enugu on...

The Chula Vista City Council recently held a community workshop at City Hall to consider the pros and cons of marijuana regulation in the city. The Aug. 3 dialogue included current state cannabis laws and the future of local regulation regarding cannabis. The discussion followed a report...

A group that believes cannabis has a secret historical role in Christianity is forging ahead with plans to visit the largest Roman Catholic church in the nation during next week's solar eclipse, where members intend to light incense doused with cannabis-infused olive oil. Yet church leaders say...

Just over two years after filling out tens of thousands of sheets of paperwork for their medical marijuana licenses, Nevada weed entrepreneurs didn’t have it as bad this time around, according to lawyers in the new recreational industry. While first-time marijuana business owners scrambled to...

Eli Harrington thinks holding the first-ever Vermont Hemp Festival in the rural, remote Northeast Kingdom makes perfect sense. Harrington and Monica Donovan, co-founders of Heady Vermont, chose to have their inaugural hemp conference in the NEK because the Kingdom has an important history with...

Well before Oregon legalized marijuana, its verdant, wet forests made it an ideal place for growing the drug, which often ended up being funneled out of the state for big money. Now, officials suspect pot grown legally in Oregon and other states is also being smuggled out, and the trafficking is...

California's organics-loving, go-green mentality is what makes the state a hub for environmental progress, but in the case of the cannabis industry, some say it could be its downfall. Pesticide regulations released earlier this year by the California Bureau of Medical Cannabis are some of the...

Well before Oregon legalized marijuana, its verdant, wet forests made it an ideal place for growing the drug, which often ended up being funneled out of the state for big money. Now, officials suspect pot grown legally in Oregon and other states is also being smuggled out, and the trafficking...

Cannabis as a product has transmogrified from its druggy history a couple of decades ago, when consumers inhaled black-market weed from finger-staining joints or amber-drenched bongs, and gobbled crunchy brownies laced with Mary Jane. The illicit market exuded a seedy, unsavory haze. Police...

A manufacturer of edibles and a cooperative are looking to open Port Hueneme's first medical marijuana operations. YiLo, which has marijuana operations in Arizona, has applied to make its cannabis-infused food and drink products at what is currently a public works facility for the city. In...

When a state senator voted this year to expand access to medical marijuana in Wisconsin, he did so as a relatively new investor of a Canadian pot producer with global ambitions. According to public disclosures reviewed this week by USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, Sen. Frank Lasee of De Pere in...

Arkansas' medical-marijuana program is mostly off to a smooth start, but applications for medical marijuana cards are off to a slow start. So far, submissions from patients seeking medical marijuana cards have been lower than expected according to Robert Brech, General Counsel for the...

On a warm summer evening at a vineyard in Sonoma, California, a group of well-heeled guests gathered at a local Sonoma vineyard sipping rose, feasting on food... and smoking cannabis. The event was hosted by marijuana entrepreneurs looking to build bridges with longtime winemakers. "I...

Seattle has dropped a $1,000 fine against the nonprofit organization that runs HempFest, the annual summer marijuana celebration. The city accused Seattle Events, also known as HempFest Central, of operating a marijuana business without a license in a citation in June. The citation stemmed...

A judge in San Francisco, in the first known ruling of its kind, has halted federal prosecution of two North Coast marijuana growers because Congress has prohibited the Justice Department from interfering with states' medical marijuana laws. Anthony Pisarski and Sonny Moore pleaded guilty in...

A district judge on Friday temporarily halted any effort by the Department of Taxation to license additional distributors of recreational marijuana other than liquor wholesalers. The order sought by the Independent Alcohol Distributors of Nevada was granted by District Judge James Todd...

A former New York Jet is kicking up a cloud of controversy with a plan to market marijuana-derived products at Pop Warner youth football games. Marvin Washington, who played 11 seasons in the NFL — including eight years with the Jets — is the managing partner of Isodiol, a company that extracts...

An Indiana lawmaker is preparing for a fight as he gets ready to introduce a medical marijuana bill. State Representative Jim Lucas, a Republican from Seymour, said customers aren’t the ones visiting his print shop right now. “I’ve had people stop here at my shop that have thanked me with tears...

Justice for pot smokers in America has become ridiculously uneven. They can light up legally in many states, while a second arrest for mere possession in Wisconsin remains a potential felony. Gretchen Schuldt got to wondering who is being snared here by this increasingly outdated law, and...

Jesus Aponte pushes a door open to reveal hundreds of aromatic, spiky green plants, a crop that Puerto Rico hopes will help it ease a grinding economic crisis by generating millions in revenue and tens of thousands of jobs. Aponte, a 29-year-old biologist and chemical engineer, had been...