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Green Thumb Industries is one step closer to opening its Montour County growing facility as part of the state's medical marijuana program after the Pennsylvania Department of Health today announced GTI and Pennsylvania Medical Solutions, LLC, Lackawanna County, were approved to begin growing and...

During the summer of 2016, Micah Jensen told his mother, Bonnie, he wanted to spend his birthday free of the severe migraines that had been plaguing him for months. Micah has autism and temporal lobe epilepsy, which causes recurrent, unprovoked seizures. But the migraines were new and getting...

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, is cosponsoring a bill to decriminalize marijuana across the nation and penalize states with high arrest and incarceration rates for pot-related crimes. The Marijuana Justice Act of 2017, first introduced in August by Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, would remove...

While some states have removed criminal penalties for marijuana, and many others have legalized it for medical and -- more rarely -- recreational use, the drug remains forbidden at colleges in such states. That's because of a hovering federal threat, but one that has never been realized --...

The city of Laurel is one step closer to having its first medical marijuana dispensary opening on Baltimore Avenue, one of two dispensaries permitted in state legislative District 21. The Planning Commission unanimously approved a special exception application Dec. 12 for the licensed...

Investors have been eager to enter the Canadian marijuana space as the country moves towards launching its recreational cannabis market next July. Despite uncertainty of the legalization bill's fate in the Senate, the Canadian marijuana market is booming. M&A activity is heating up and stocks...

Add the Buckeye State to the list of those that have attracted medical marijuana growers. The CEO of a medical marijuana company that broke ground on Ohio's first cultivation facility in Yellow Springs last week described the Dayton-area community as tailor-made for his new venture. "If we...

The amount of cannabis seized by Hong Kong police increased 238 per cent in the first 10 months of this year, sparking fears about a growing trend of abuse in the city. One in seven of the Hongkongers arrested for possession in that period was aged 20 or below, the force has revealed. The...

Longtime New York medical marijuana advocate Dana Beal is back in the joint – this time in California. Beal, 70, was arrested on two pot charges Saturday night in a rural area about 100 miles south of the Oregon border, a Trinity County Sheriff's source told the Daily News. He was jailed...

Cultivate Holdings in Leicester looks like it could be a hip new coffee shop, with its wood details and open-concept, airy layout. But Cultivate isn't a café, even though its staff says their product is "farm to table." Cultivate is Worcester County's first medical marijuana dispensary...

Arrests resulting in a misdemeanor charge for the possession of a small amount of marijuana have dropped significantly in Harrisburg since the city's decriminalization ordinance went into effect. However, the lowered penalty may have resulted in more people being penalized, according to an...

The man in charge of hiring and firing Denver's police officers likes to remind people that the firefighters and police officers who rushed into the World Trade Center on 9/11 were not drunk or stoned. Therefore, recent marijuana use by potential and current first responders in Denver will...

Alternative Therapies Group Inc., which opened the state’s first medical marijuana dispensary in Salem, Massachusetts, in 2015, has been eyeing another dispensary in the Merrimack Valley for some time. But after more than a year waiting on approvals from Methuen to bring its plans to fruition...

Some lawmakers are backing a bill to legalize cannabis oil for medicinal purposes in the state of Tennessee. A medical marijuana task force was formed earlier this year to study the topic of medical marijuana and then make a recommendation to be presented to the general assembly. The co-chair...

As the federal government holds to its July 1, 2018 date to legalize recreational marijuana, municipalities across the country are grappling with the ripple effects of that change. In Alberta, Strathcona County has been fielding applications for cannabis-related businesses, including production...

Sen. Orrin Hatch supports efforts in Utah and elsewhere to study the medicinal effects of marijuana, but condemns the federal "regulatory acrobatics" required of researchers studying the plant. "Under current law, those who want to complete research on the benefits of medical marijuana must...

A marijuana-infused topical ointment won the most coveted prize this weekend at the first-ever Harvest Cup, a marijuana-centric convention in Worcester that featured a competitive competition among the best cannabis home-growers. The prize for best overall cannabis went to Clinton Bradshaw of...

Chris Nelson knows he initially may lose money as Iowa's first licensed medical cannabis manufacturer. But if the state continues to develop its medical marijuana program, taking cues from other states with fewer restrictions, Nelson will be in on Iowa's ground floor of an industry projected...

Yirtuamlak Hailu Derege came to California a decade ago with dreams of making it big in the entertainment business. But shortly after arriving, he was arrested and convicted of selling marijuana, a felony that has made it difficult for him to find any job at all. But now, with California on...

Marijuana enthusiasts busted out their smartphones to snap a picture of a massive, 100-foot-long joint on Saturday. The joint was unveiled at the Harvest Cup, an exhibition of pro-marijuana vendors and supporters at the DCU Center in Worcester. "First thought is, when do we get to smoke it...