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Salinas recently issued another cannabis business permit, making it the ninth permit for the city. Harkins Grow Inc. received a cultivation permit for its location at 1156 Harkins St. after appealing to the city's Planning Commission. Harkins was initially denied the permit because of its...

Legislation to remove hemp from the Controlled Substances Act has a good chance of finding a home in the farm bill this year. That's according to Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., who said this would pave the way for increased cultivation of the specialty crop in all 50 states, including North...

Two men robbed a medical marijuana distribution center near the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport at gunpoint Thursday evening, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said. A female employee of the distribution center north of Santa Rosa noticed a red Honda Accord approach her as she walked...

A marijuana dispensary owner who is among multiple people facing criminal charges following raids of dispensaries in Northern Michigan is speaking out. Chad Morrow, owner of Cloud 45 dispensary, said he was arrested following police raids at his business and four others in Gaylord on Monday...

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...

Jon Sahlberg's mind was on his van full of weed when the Washington State Patrol pulled him over for a busted taillight near Ritzville. "I was like, 'Oh God, I don't know how this is going to go,' " the former FedEx delivery man-turned-marijuana transporter said. The back of his...

Questions related to commercial marijuana operations, and the city's interest in a permitting plan for the drug's cultivation for personal use were among the queries that came up during the first of a series of community meetings about pot. About 40 people gathered at Washington Park...

Dr. Joseph Dorn watched his terminally ill patients suffer and discovered that some of them were illegally using marijuana to alleviate their pain. He went on to become medical director of one of the handful of companies licensed to grow medical marijuana in Florida and had patients calling...

Dozens of supporters for U.S. Sen. Cory Booker's proposed bill to legalize marijuana nationwide joined him in a kickoff rally on the steps of city hall Friday. Booker introduced the Marijuana Justice Act this week, a federal effort that would remove the drug from the list of controlled...

A Northeast Ohio-based company announced Friday it will partner with a state school to test medical marijuana, the first indication any institution might participate in the program. CCV Research CEO Jonathan Cachat said his company reached an agreement with a qualifying public institution of...

U.S. voters have an idea of what might actually improve society and make America great again: legalizing weed. A Harvard-Harris Poll survey released Monday found a majority of voters–some 57 percent–thought making marijuana legal across all 50 states would make society better, and 69 percent...

A consignment of 225 kilogram of hashish (cannabis) worth ₹55 lakh was recovered from a truck at Pari Chowk in Greater Noida early Friday. Police arrested four men, including a graduate from Delhi University, in connection with the haul. The cannabis was concealed in small packets inside the...

At a candidate forum in Sandy on Thursday, the six law enforcement officers in the race to become the next Salt Lake County sheriff said they support the legalization of medical marijuana, but that Utah might not be ready for recreational use of the drug. Activists launched an effort in June...

Deputies seized more than 16,000 marijuana plants, valued at more than $50 million, and arrested eight men while raiding two warehouses in Industry on Thursday morning, authorities said. The bust took place about 9:30 a.m. at two separate warehouses in the 1100 block of Fullerton Road, just...

Legalizing marijuana, California voters were told last year, would create a "safe, legal and comprehensive system" allowing adults to consume the drug while keeping it out of the hands of children. Marijuana would be sold in highly regulated stores, the Proposition 64 campaign promised, and...

Human waste was allowed to flow into the river streams. Pesticide containers were left uncapped, allowing whatever was left inside to seep out into the watershed. Trash was left around, bulking into clusters of garbage. Electrical generators were placed atop dry grass, increasing the...

If you're one of the nearly 200,000 people in New Jersey who suffer from chronic pain, migraines, anxiety, opiate-use disorder, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, autism, Tourette syndrome and a few other ailments, you should be allowed to obtain medicinal marijuana, with the consent of your...

A New Jersey-based nonprofit organization was quietly selected earlier this year to run New Castle County's second medical marijuana growing and dispensary operation without competitive bidding, state and organization leaders confirmed Wednesday. Compassionate Care Research Institute, whose...

The white-and-green-trimmed building is barely noticeable from the road. Driving along the busy Dale Mabry Highway, motorists speed past, seemingly without noticing the Trulieve name in large purple-and-green letters or its motto: "Relief ... Naturally." They might not even realize inside the...

With just over a year to go before medical marijuana becomes legally available in Ohio, employers are already updating their drug policies to cover workers on the job. Traditionally, company drug and alcohol policies have prohibited anyone from having illegal drugs like marijuana in their...