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John Seifert was having trouble renting out his shuttered flower shop in Baltimore County. Finally, a real estate agent found a potential tenant: a medical marijuana dispensary. Seifert signed a five-year lease with the firm, which wants to sell cannabis tinctures, oils and other products to...

Grow, baby, grow. The Berkeley City Council has finally set criteria for the medical cannabis grow houses voters approved in 2010. The city expects to collect $650,000 to $1.3 million each year in tax revenue related to cultivation in West Berkeley, staff has estimated. Officials voted July 11...

Berkeley City Council will convene at its regular meeting this Tuesday to consider a number of proposals including short-term police reform, commercial cannabis regulation and discrimination in rental housing based on source of income. Recently, the Berkeley Police Department released a...

After a public hearing July 18 regarding the Cannabis Businesses Ordinance and agreeing it is nearly at the point where it can be voted on, the San Benito County Board of Supervisors sent it back to its ad hoc committee to fine tune it one more time after hearing comments from the public and...

It's not just "stoners" and "burnouts" backing medical and recreational marijuana in South Dakota. As the campaign to get two marijuana-related measures on the ballot in 2018 continues, Mitchell's James McNaughton sees support for cannabis strengthening statewide. But after this week's...

Maine lawmakers are coalescing around a rough plan for the state's new recreational marijuana industry after months of wonky hearings and with weeks more to go before a final proposal that could come by summer's end. Voters backed legalization by a slim margin in the 2016 election, approving...

A cannabis plant in every yard? That could be the slogan for Dana Larsen's Overgrow Canada pot-seed campaign. The marijuana advocate led a project this year to give away 5 million cannabis seeds this year; last year he and his colleagues gave away 2.5 million. "We're encouraging people to...

Five years after Washington voters legalized recreational marijuana, uncertainty continues in cities and counties across the state over how to regulate pot businesses – or whether to allow them at all. For example, Yakima County voters will determine in November whether a ban on such...

Lawmakers overhauled the rules for recreational marijuana this week, but their changes are raising concerns about legal challenges and whether communities will get enough tax revenue to cover the cost of regulating the new pot industry. The legislation, which is awaiting Gov. Charlie Baker's...

It's about a mile along Division Street from Dr. Matt Layton's office on the Washington State University medical campus in Spokane to the nearest recreational marijuana store. As a private adult under Washington law, Layton could walk into that store, buy a gram of marijuana and use it...

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Sunday slammed the Trump administration's crackdown on marijuana users, calling it "backward and inhumane." "This is backward and inhumane," Schatz tweeted. "I hope every third-party voting progressive remembers this. There's a real difference between R's and...

As the legalization of recreational marijuana sales in Maine nears, a legislative panel has spent months pondering the best way to tax pot to bring in state revenue, fund regulatory enforcement and discourage the illicit market. In November, legalization of recreational marijuana was...

As the legalization of recreational marijuana sales in Maine nears, a legislative panel has spent months pondering the best way to tax pot to bring in state revenue, fund regulatory enforcement and discourage the illicit market. In November, legalization of recreational marijuana was...

The Trump administration is readying for a crackdown on marijuana users under Attorney General Jeff Sessions. President Trump's Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, led by Sessions, is expected to release a report next week that criminal justice reform advocates fear will link...

Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal says that he is laying down the law when it comes to illegal marijuana grows in Humboldt County. "Number one: if they are not a permitted grower then they are a priority. Number two is that they are damaging the environment, we don't want any of these...

A Rio Grande Valley mother is pleading Gov. Greg Abbott to add medical marijuana to the ongoing special session agenda. A house bill was filed in Austin that would legalize medical cannabis in Texas. But families and lawmakers said it can't pass without the governor's support. Mayra...

Tim Blake has been pursued by police, arrested, jailed, ripped off in the fields by thuggish neighbors and hogtied by Hell's Angels. Naturally, he is one of Mendocino County's most upstanding citizens. Blake is a longtime cannabis grower and entrepreneur. His Healing Harvest farm produces...

In California's famed Emerald Triangle marijuana growing region, cannabis farmers by the thousands have stepped out of the shadows to apply for permission to do business in state's newly regulated marketplace. The rush of applicants, totaling nearly 3,000 between Humboldt and Mendocino...

A father and son were released on bond out of Lake County Jail on Friday after being arrested Thursday on suspicion of operating a commercial-grade marijuana concentrate lab in a Lakeport office park. Jeffrey Shane Oliver, 50, and his son, Timothy Jeffrey Oliver, 20, both of Illinois, were...

Riverside has long prohibited medical marijuana dispensaries. Now officials may add recreational pot businesses to the ban – at least temporarily. Since November, when California voters legalized adult use of marijuana, the Riverside City Council has not decided whether to allow, tax and...