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There will not be a special legislative session to address charges of racial inequity in Maryland's burgeoning medical marijuana industry. The General Assembly's Democratic presiding officers have officially rejected the call from black lawmakers to summon the full legislature to Annapolis...

The City of Arcata will review a permit request asking that the city allow "Yes We Cann," a cannabis-themed event, to parade through the streets and gather in the Arcata Ball Park Saturday, Aug. 12. During the July 19 Arcata City Council meeting, city staff identified three key legal areas...

Eddie Biggar sports a black-and-green suit dotted with tiny green leaves as he dances jovially on a corner of the Pacific Coast Highway. Some two-and-a-half hours southwest of Portland, he owns the sidewalk. Just like a sign-waiver might promote the local pizzeria, The Weedman boasts $5...

Customers on a clean, airy Studio City sales floor browse shelves lined with cannabis-infused lotions, bath salts, protein bars, pet treatments and, of course, a variety of flowers. A uniformed 30-something staffer at Buds & Roses cleaned a smudge from the glass, while another talked a...

Stuck between Congress and voters' will, residents of this politically charged town are becoming urban gardeners, turning closets and living rooms into tiny cannabis farms while politicians dither over whether it ever will be legal to sell marijuana in the nation’s capital. They’re also...

A medicinal cannabis farm under construction in Queensland has opened its doors for the first time to offer an exclusive glimpse of its top-secret operation. Medifarm, based on the state's Sunshine Coast, has a rare license granted by the Federal Government to cultivate, produce and...

Hemp is a crop that grows like any other, but with more legal boundaries. Purdue's Agriculture personnel have been growing and researching hemp since 2015. They hosted their second Industrial Hemp Field Day on Thursday at Meigs Farm, south of Lafayette. Janna Beckerman, field day organizer...

Don Knight keeps a "hard times" stockpile in the basement of his turn-of-the-century bungalow in Elko, Nev. Dozens of tightly sealed ammo cans are stacked in the corner, each packed with a handful of shotgun shells, a 2,000-calorie vacuum-sealed military food brick, a stash of water purifying...

Amanda Ellis-Graham's multiple sclerosis was once so bad she could barely hold a pencil. She suffered from vision and hearing problems. Walking was nearly impossible because of terrible vertigo. Numbness and a sensation of pins and needles slowly spread through her body. Ellis-Graham, now...

At exactly 4:20 p.m. on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Pasadena, California, nearly a thousand people crammed inside a lecture hall to listen as five experts discussed the politics of "Weed Nation." Sitting at the center of the panel was a well-tanned man with firmly parted white hair and...

The clock is ticking on Kevin Murphy and his company, Prime Wellness of Pennsylvania. Murphy – who says he wants to run for governor of Connecticut and heads up one of the largest medical marijuana companies in the nation – expressed confidence that his company can beat the clock. To do...

The Meadowlands – already set to be the home of the state's largest shopping and entertainment complex – will also be the site of the state's largest dispensary of medical marijuana. Once it opens for business, the dispensary plans to serve up to 4,000 patients a month with a variety of...

Desert Hot Springs, a windswept hamlet in the California desert 100 miles from Los Angeles, markets itself as a spa town – a laid-back complement to neighboring Palm Springs. Regionally, its reputation includes low rents and high crime rates, although residents with deep-seated community pride...

Several of the independent experts hired to review applications to open medical marijuana businesses in Maryland had ties to companies whose materials they reviewed, according to records obtained by The Washington Post. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission said it is investigating these...

Logan Martyn-Fisher checks his phone's GPS one more time and pulls up at the Portland Amtrak station, thousands of dollars of marijuana concealed in a pair of colorful beach totes sitting on the back seat of his BMW SUV. He's looking for a guy who's looking for pot. Maine doesn't yet allow...

When Gov. Chris Christie leaves office Jan. 16, he will take his unbending attitude toward legalizing marijuana with him. Christie's departure opens the door to expansion of the state's current medicinal marijuana program, decriminalization or even a ballot initiative to have Atlantic City...

Future cannabis business owners can now apply for cannabis business licenses from the Department of Revenue and Taxation after Gov. Eddie Calvo signed Bill 69-34 into law last week. Public Law 34-24 allows DRT to collect fees and issue business licenses for the commercial cultivation...

Leeds Crown Court heard officers executed a search warrant at David Elliot's home in Middleton on August 26 last year. Martin Robertshaw, prosecuting, said premises below the flat had been a florist shop where Elliot had been cultivating and selling flowers. Mr Robertshaw said the florist...

State Sen. Kenny Yuko recently introduced legislation asking Congress and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marijuana to a less restrictive category. Currently, marijuana – which is not known to have caused any overdose deaths – is a Schedule I drug along with heroin. The...

A veteran city correction officer was busted by a drug-detecting dog as he tried to smuggle marijuana into a jail, authorities said Sunday. Christian Mizell, 48, of Jamaica, Queens, was nabbed by the front gate of the Manhattan Detention Complex on Saturday morning, court records show. He...