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A new store in Columbia, part of a chain that also has locations in Kansas City, Springfield and Joplin, is raising the question of whether a hemp extract extolled for its benefits to epilepsy patients can be sold legally to anyone. CBD American Shaman on Range Line Street just south of...

Once Arkansas allows medical marijuana sales, veterans in the care of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs physicians can discuss the drug with their doctors, but that's it. In the federal government's eyes, marijuana is an illegal, Schedule 1 controlled substance, meaning the VA won't...

Joanna Arenstein has a slogan: "Jews and weed go together like ... Jews and weed." As the executive director of East Bay Canna, she knows a lot of people in the cannabis community – and that means she knows a lot of Jews. "We're everywhere," Arenstein said with a laugh. Pushing...

Seventy-three percent of Utahns favor legalizing the medical use of marijuana, including strong majorities of Republicans and members of the LDS Church who self-identify as "very active," a new poll says. In the UtahPolicy.com poll, 600 Utah registered voters were asked whether they "support...

After decades of trailblazing cannabis-related retail — often under police scrutiny — Calgary head shops say legal recreational marijuana offers them a hazy future. Despite a perception looming legislative changes might affirm their bong and roach clip business model, those first in on cannabis...

Town officials were willing to see a recreational marijuana operation move into town, but there was just one problem. There was no zone on the books for such a business. So, the town has proposed an industrial service zone, which will be taken up by voters at a special town meeting Dec. 28...

On Jan. 1, at 6 a.m., Mayor Jesse Arreguín will stand outside the Berkeley Patients Group at 2366 San Pablo Ave. and cut a ribbon that officially opens sales of recreational cannabis in Berkeley. Arreguín won't be purchasing any marijuana for himself, he said, but he will probably be an...

Hawaii's cannabis industry is facing more setbacks as the state struggles with an understaffed program. Seven of 11 positions are vacant at the Department of Health, which oversees the medical cannabis patient registry and dispensary licensing programs. The registry is down three of six...

The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) said a number of charges are pending against a number of people after officers found two illegal cannabis dispensaries operating in the city. The first dispensary was discovered Thursday, November 30, when EPS Southeast Division officers followed up on a tip...

Siskiyou County Sheriff Jon Lopey spent decades as a soldier. He enlisted in the Marines at age 18 and retired as a much-decorated colonel in the National Guard. Today he's waging war again, not against Al Qaeda or the Taliban, but an army of rogue pot growers who have spread throughout his...

Former California Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer is going from enforcing laws against marijuana to legally distributing the drug under the state's new rules that allow the sale and possession of pot for recreational use. With state-licensed sales of marijuana starting Jan. 1, Lockyer has co-founded...

Ann Arbor is agreeing to let 18 medical marijuana businesses in the city temporarily operate without licenses while they go through the process of seeking licenses from the state. The City Council unanimously approved the measure this week, while finalizing new zoning regulations for...

At least 22 of the 24 companies chosen to grow Ohio's first medical marijuana plants are also vying for one of 40 licenses to make marijuana brownies, lotions, patches and other products. Of those, at least 12 also applied for licenses to sell marijuana at dispensaries -- the state plans to...

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...

Services at the Coachella Valley Church begin and end with the Lord's Prayer. In between, there is the sacrament. "Breathe deep and blow harder," intoned Pastor Grant Atwell after distributing marijuana joints to 20 worshipers on a recent Sunday. "Nail the insight down, whether you get it...

Police have apologized after mistakenly ripping out a cannabis crop that turned out to be legal - and have promised the owner they will pay him back. Willie Kaa is a licensed hemp grower who lives in Ruatoria on the East Coast. He is part of a collective of growers working with Hikurangi...

Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the point of hemp was to get high, if only in a last-ditch, ditch-weed kind of way. But I was set straight – and remained that way through five courses – at the recent Hemp + Hops Dinner at Zenbarn in Waterbury Center. Hemp may not blow your mind, but it...

A couple from St. Louis has opened a pioneering hemp shop in Dallas-Fort Worth. The hope: Provide a welcoming environment for people looking for hemp-based health and personal-care products. "There's no place to specifically get it," says Dafna Revah, who co-founded CBD Kratom with her...

San Diego police investigating an illegal marijuana delivery business served search warrants at homes in Pacific Beach and Bay Park, seized about 45 pounds of marijuana and arrested two people Wednesday morning. An apartment on Haines Street near Fortuna Avenue in Pacific Beach and a house on...

People don't just smoke marijuana. They vaporize it, bake it into brownies, use it in eye drops, and rub extracts of it onto their skin. Some people use the drug as medicine, others for the fun of getting high. In states that have legalized pot, regulators have struggled to make sure the...