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George Hendrickson hopes he can accomplish a goal that has eluded independent statewide candidates in South Dakota: winning. The 46-year-old former police officer and medical cannabis advocate from Sioux Falls is set to announce Sunday that he will run for U.S. House. And he's hopeful that...

Last Christmas, Barbara Kaiser slid to her kitchen floor and just sobbed. The 82-year-old Green Valley woman had spent decades baking hundreds of cookies for her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren for the holidays, but this year, the pain won. She just couldn't do it anymore...

For vendors selling marijuana-related products at this weekend's Hemp and Cannabis Fair, the event wasn't just a way to dispel myths about pot and associated products, it was a way to make a sale, too. Hundreds of people went to the Holiday Inn on Saturday to attend the fair, which was held...

When Tom Rodrigues looks out the window at his Yorkville winery, he can see two worlds collide. Some of the most coveted wines in the United States emerge from the vineyards of California's North Coast. But in the hills overlooking his Mendocino County winery, and just to the north in...

Hundreds of job seekers attended a Cannabis Career Fair in Denver on Sunday. Organizers said there were a wide variety of jobs available at dozens of companies. The event at Mile High Station was part of an effort to increase diversity in the industry. Officials with Marijuana Industry...

Oakland's attempt to fix racial inequality in the cannabis industry by giving permits to ex-convicts to sell, grow or transport the drug for which they were once criminalized is off to a surprisingly good start by most accounts. The city has received 72 applications for pot business permits...

As one area Michigan community is opting to keep potential medical marijuana dispensaries out of its central business district, another might make room for them in its downtown. The city of Buchanan has been working to finalize a proposed ordinance to regulate medical marijuana businesses and...

The voters spoke, and legalized recreational marijuana in Nevada, but there have been some unintended consequences. Some buyers have been forced to return to the black market, despite the legalization. Some medical marijuana patients say they cannot afford "the price gouging" at dispensaries...

Despite Proposition 64, most marijuana activity will be restricted in Sierra Madre, city leaders have decided. In response to the state's legalization of marijuana in November's election, the City Council decided Tuesday to update the city's policy on marijuana, completely prohibiting...

A campaign to once again try to fully legalize marijuana in Michigan is getting big support from a Washington D.C. nonprofit activist group and from a tobacco store company that has talked of opening a chain of marijuana shops in the state. The donor list, revealed in the latest campaign...

In a national vote widely viewed as a victory for conservatives, last year's elections also yielded a win for liberals in eight states that legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use. But the growing industry is facing a federal crackdown under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has...

The elaborately rigged electrical systems present at many of the 29 homes in Pueblo West and other areas of the county that the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office raided for illegal marijuana grows last year have, with the exception of one, been removed and the homes brought back to standards...

Renee Harvey has one of the worst cases of Tourette's syndrome in the country, but a cannabis-based drug that may help is out of reach. Renee Harvey just wants to be able to do things like other young women her age. She wants to get her driver's license, take her six-year-old son Neko out for...

Organizers of the Hemp and Cannabis Fair came had a busy day setting up at the Holiday Inn in Redding for their opening day Saturday. That wasn't the original plan, but they had to scramble when their contract at the Shasta District Fairgrounds was canceled Wednesday. The director said...

Hundreds of mostly older Chinese residents turned out Thursday night at City Hall to oppose a medical cannabis dispensary proposed for the Sunset District, but their testimony was not enough to sway planning commissioners, who voted 5-1 to approve the pot shop. The vote, which followed five...

A physician authorized to prescribe medical marijuana to patients will soon open a primary-care practice in Plattsburgh. On Aug. 1, Dr. Richard D'Amico – the first and, currently, only doctor in Clinton County to appear on the state's Public List of Consenting Medical Marijuana Program...

A Connecticut lawyer is hoping his arguments in a drug case eventually are used by attorneys across the country to fight marijuana charges and bans on pot possession. Aaron Romano says many state laws criminalizing marijuana were based on the federal Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, which...

Kelley McDaniel, the daughter of Collier County Commissioner Bill McDaniel, was arrested Wednesday night, along with her live-in boyfriend, after detectives found a pound of marijuana, fertilizer and growing equipment in a garage on the property, deputies said. Kelley McDaniel, 20, was living...

The price hike in marijuana is causing some patients to turn back to the streets to buy medicine. Emily Wilson said she moved to Las Vegas because it had approved the use of medical marijuana, which was her only cure to years of pain from a chest surgery. "It changed the whole quality of...

Decades-old fears of reefer madness invoked on Thursday at the Planning Commission could not stop plans to open a pot shop in the Outer Sunset from moving forward. Hundreds of neighbors argued that opening a medical marijuana dispensary on the corner of Noriega Street and 32nd Avenue would...