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Zimbabweans on Monday expressed both shock and surprise over government revelations it could soon partner a group of Canadian firms to produce marijuana or mbanje ostensibly for medical purposes. The revelations were reportedly made by Investment Promotion Minister Obert Mpofu at a recent...

A Kentucky lawmaker is proposing to legalize marijuana for the terminally ill in a move that's widely seen as a first step toward wholesale legalization of the so-called gateway drug. State Sen. Morgan McGarvey, D-Louisville, made his case for "palliative" marijuana to the General Assembly's...

A Twin Cities couple is counting down the days until their daughter can get life-changing medicine. On August 1, medical marijuana will be available to Minnesotans diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD was added to the list of qualifying conditions last December. Registration...

Dinner, a ride and office supplies are a few touchpad clicks away. So, Jonathan Ghiz and Justin Schudel figured that the booming medical-marijuana market would be a natural fit for this on-demand model. When the two friends with backgrounds in technology and hospitality discovered no such...

Three big names in Cleveland football are eyeing multiple sites in the Cleveland area for a medical marijuana dispensary. Ted Ginn Sr., long-time football and track coach at Glenville High School, former Ohio State University quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith and former...

Potential medical marijuana dispensary owners in Ohio will have to shell out some green to sell some green if the latest round of suggested dispensary fees become law. Prospective business owners may have to pay more than $75,000 in state fees, and that's before factoring in costs of a...

Arrests for the public use of marijuana in the District nearly tripled in 2016 and are on track to remain high in 2017, public records show. More than 400 people were arrested in 2016 for public consumption of marijuana, according to D.C. police arrest records obtained through a Freedom of...

A push to solve the state's fiscal crisis by legalizing marijuana will continue in January when lawmakers return to Springfield for a new session, one of the lawmakers behind the effort said. Two bills authored by state Sen. Heather Steans and state Rep. Kelly Cassidy, both from Edgewater...

Small town residents like and need marijuana, too, said Randy and Gayle Simpson, owners of Green Cross Dispensary, a medical dispensary that opened in early May. "Probably 80 percent of our customers are from the Brownsville area," Gayle Simpson said. "The main thing we hear is they're so...

The Hanford City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to allow the commercial cultivation of marijuana, becoming the first major population hub in the central San Joaquin Valley to embrace cannabis after California voters approved its legalization in November. Kings County's largest city...

American Independence Day aside, this past Tuesday marked the first day West Virginians could apply to the agriculture commissioner for a license to grow industrial hemp for commercial purposes, although several industry pioneers already are well into their second growing season and thinking...

It's a growing industry in the state. The medical cannabis program has been in place for years but recently the number of cannabis patients in New Mexico has surged. This weekend, an expo is bringing together all aspects of the industry. "New Mexico is really expanding," Gina Lucero said...

Police Scotland issued nearly 6,000 warnings for cannabis possession as an alternative to prosecution in the first year of a controversial new scheme. Figures obtained by Scotland on Sunday show officers handed out a total of 5,827 Recorded Police Warnings (RPWs) in 2016/17, equivalent to...

Kim Lallathin starts each morning by holding her breath and walking into her daughter’s room. “I’ll sit there for a minute and make sure I can hear her,” Lallathin, 47, said. She has done that since Ciara’s troubled birth 13 years ago. Her daughter died in the womb and was revived by doctors...

The debate over legalized marijuana in Delaware is not going away despite state lawmakers shelving an effort to allow recreational cannabis sales to adults. The issue was thrust to the forefront of public policy debates in Delaware this year as advocates showed up in force at town hall...

Tucked away in an outlet on the southern outskirts of the city is a store called Lush Lighting. As its name suggests, it specializes in selling LED lights and other products to help plants grow more efficiently. Though it may not look like it from its modest façade, owner Matthew Johnson...

One in five American adults can now legally eat, drink, smoke or vape cannabis however they please. For the fledgling companies fighting for customer attention, the game of differentiating their products through branding is on. And nothing conveys these emerging marijuana brands so clearly as...

Ten years ago, the land would sell for $5,000 an acre. Now, an acre of land could go for more than $50,000. “This is one of the sites where the city of California City has issued permits to medical marijuana cultivators to grow cannabis,” Josh Meister, a local real estate agent, said...

Hundreds of Georgians have signed up for a card that says they can legally possess medical marijuana in Georgia since Gov. Nathan Deal signed a bill expanding the state's now two-year-old program. That brought the total number of patients on the state's registry up to 2,162 as of the end of...

The North Dakota Department of Health wants a better idea of how many applications it will receive from medical marijuana growers and dispensaries in the coming months. The department asked for letters of intent from entities interested in applying to become a registered "compassion center"...