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On July 1, Boothbay welcomed its first medical marijuana store, selling marijuana, edibles and drops containing THC which produce the high, but their most popular products contain no THC. The new Pharmers Market just opened up in Boothbay. You won't find fruits or veggies here, just cannabis...

Music acts aren't the only talker at an annual festival that ends Sunday at the city-owned Lou Adado Riverfront Park. A medical marijuana dispensary has a presence at the Common Ground Music Festival, and it's bound to trigger reactions. The Got Meds Lounge has a 20-feet-long by...

A deal on compromise legislation changing the voter-approved marijuana law does not appear likely to emerge for final votes Friday, while lawmakers from both branches are at the State House to vote on a compromise fiscal 2018 budget. The six-member conference committee reconciling bills...

With recreational marijuana quickly leaving the shelves of Nevada dispensaries, Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday signed emergency regulations that could keep sales going strong beyond the first week. Some dispensaries have told the state that a legal fight over distribution rights could put them...

In coming weeks, cannabis-seeking citizens in this small South American nation will be able to walk into a pharmacy and buy government-approved marijuana for the state-mandated price of $1.30 a gram. No questions asked. No doctor's note required. If that sounds like an attempt to create a...

Baby hemp plants are sending off their distinct skunky smell at a farm in Pahrump, but these weeds won't wind up in a joint. The farm is one of the state's cultivators of hemp crops that have almost no THC, the psychoactive compound that gives marijuana users a high. A new law means plants...

From the outside it looked like any other warehouse. But, on the inside, it had modern designs, dozens of people and lots of marijuana. Theory Wellness, the state's 12th medical marijuana dispensary, had its grand opening on Thursday at their Bridgewater location, 1050 Elm St. "It's...

A medical marijuana dispensary in Show Low has been denied a request to change its building signage that would have added "cannabis" to its name. Green Hills Patient Center, 3191 S. White Mountain Rd., wanted to change its building signage to add the words, "Medical Cannabis Dispensary." The...

Mike Kline isn't the type to seek the spotlight, but it seems the light found Mike. "It's incredibly exciting, but I haven't slept in two nights. Our phone never stops ringing. The voicemail where I was told has an unlimited capacity...doesn't," Kline said. He's the chief operating...

As canna-business strategist Elise McRoberts walked across an animal skin rug and into the living room of a Pacific Heights home for the recent San Francisco launch of Beboe, an upscale cannabis brand from Los Angeles, she assumed she would see the usual faces on the marijuana circuit – growers...

Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Michael Goulding on Friday found a Toledo woman charged with selling marijuana and illegal mushrooms for "spiritual purposes" competent to stand trial on felony drug charges. Charmaine Rose Bassett, 56, of the 3400 block of Secor Road entered not guilty pleas...

More than 71 percent of Florida voters in November agreed marijuana should be used to treat serious illnesses — the highest margin of support among the nine states considering various levels of cannabis legalization last year. Given that kind of public backing, a group trying to legalize...

Some Alaska marijuana shops have suddenly found themselves with one less outlet for advertising this week. Owners and employees of at least six marijuana retail stores in the state said that within the past week, their Facebook pages were either taken down or entirely deleted by the tech...

One by one, states across the nation have been passing new marijuana laws in recent years. Currently, 29 states in the U.S. allow the use of medical marijuana. By November 2018, Oklahoma could be the 30th. State Question 788, the Medical Marijuana Legalization Initiative, will be on the ballot...

The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy will begin offering training to prepare prospective workers for the medical marijuana industry. The move puts the Baltimore school in league with few other established universities and colleges, including the University of Vermont College of...

Now that recreational marijuana is for sale around Nevada, plenty of questions remain for locals as well as tourists. The group behind Question 2, which legalized marijuana for those 21 and older in Nevada, has launched a new education campaign called Know the Facts Nevada to provide some of...

Once shunned by business people and outlawed by public officials, the marijuana industry is fast gaining respectability — and investors. At a gathering of marijuana supporters scheduled for Sunday in Detroit, there will be no rappers, no “medicating tent,” no vendors pitching ornate hash pipes...

The moratorium against medical marijuana businesses opening in Springfield has been extended through late September. Springfield City Commissioners on Wednesday unanimously passed the extension until Sept. 27. The item initially was not on the agenda for the Wednesday meeting, but city...

As medical marijuana growers and dispensaries gain state approval, the approaching medical marijuana wave in Pennsylvania will impact other businesses, as well, including the commercial real estate market, as growers and dispensaries rent or buy properties for their businesses. For example, in...

At first glance, the monthly meeting of the Rossmoor Medical Marijuana Education and Support Club looks like many of the 200 other clubs within this community of 10,000, most 55 or older. The club is Rossmoor's second-largest, as measured by its 600 email followers, behind only the Democrats...