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Clark County has received multiple inquiries about medical marijuana businesses looking to locate here, including cultivation operations, which leaders say could bring jobs and investment to the community. No one would identify the businesses or specific sites in Clark County but local leaders...

The state Supreme Court refused to hear appeals of a medical-marijuana cooperative grower and a dispensary owner. Attorney Bruce Block, who has waged a seven-year court battle on behalf of a client with a cooperative grow in Grand Rapids, says some judges cannot accept legalization of...

As a chronic pain patient himself, Owens knows the challenges of managing pain, accessing treatment and getting a good night's rest. Owens had a hip replacement and continued back problems, in addition to a heart attack. He saw the dangers of opioid addiction in friends and neighbors, and wanted...

House and Senate leaders might be divided on issues that forced them to return to the Capitol this week, but they're in agreement about pot. Legislation to carry out a voter-approved constitutional amendment broadly legalizing medical marijuana is on the fast track, after Gov. Rick Scott...

Veterans groups are pushing the state Senate to pass legislation allowing medical marijuana to be used in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. "I think it is time that we start taking care of the people that have PTSD," said Bob Becker, legislative chairman of the State Council of...

In the same breath that city hearing officer Suzanne Reardon approved the pot dispensary proposal at 2609 De la Vina Street, she directed opponents exactly where they could appeal the controversial project. Plans for the medical marijuana dispensary have been in the works for more than two...

The first recreational pot market in the U.S. was set Thursday to notch another marijuana first when Colorado approves using marijuana taxes to fund police efforts to crack down on illegal growing operations. A measure scheduled to be signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper sets aside...

Marijuana legalization advocates are planning to introduce a scaled-back version of their legislation that would legalize the drug next year but put the brakes on immediate plans for retail stores. While the previous version of the bill called for legalizing the drug immediately, the new...

Grant County's first medical marijuana dispensary opened its doors last week. Rocky Mtn. Dispensary began selling a variety of medical marijuana products Thursday, June 1. The business, at 27877 Apple Road in John Day, hopes to help patients conveniently access their medicine while...

In an unexpected move Tuesday night, the Westerville City Council unanimously passed a six-month moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. Since last summer, communities across Ohio have taken steps to ban or place a moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries. Brian...

A District woman is firing a novel legal challenge to the ambiguous marijuana laws in the nation's capital. U.S. Capitol Police seized Jessica Laycock's cannabis earlier this year on land under local police jurisdiction, but the charges against her were dropped. Now, she's fighting to get her...

A medical cannabis dispensary opened Thursday morning in Edgewater. The dispensary, which is on Boston Road, is the first of its kind in the county. The dispensary's first customer, who said he has epilepsy, told Channel 9 that he previously had to travel from his Holly Hill home to Tampa...

A zoning change approved by the county's planning and zoning committee Wednesday removes one of the hurdles for a company that wants to operate a medical marijuana dispensary across from Bowie Town Center. The committee approved legislation introduced by County Council member Todd Turner...

With a bill altering the voter-approved legal marijuana law expected by the end of the month, marijuana activists held a rally on the Statehouse steps Wednesday to tell lawmakers to leave the law as it is. For more than 20 years, the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition and the local...

Dr. Bronner's, the soap company with the eccentric on-bottle messaging, really loves cannabis. It's not just that they're one of the largest U.S. consumers of hemp oil, an ingredient derived from the non-drug version of the plant. The All-One also is a longtime advocate of recreational...

Gary Capone and Nicole Stetzer were looking to buy a small garden shop when they learned that the Here We Grow hydroponic shop was for sale on Route 9. The couple didn't know that it was a store that supplied the accessories for marijuana growing. "We thought it would be a nice retirement...

A lawsuit filed against a California city claims an ordinance makes it unreasonably difficult and expensive for adult residents to grow up to six marijuana plants for personal use under the state's voter-approved Proposition 64. The American Civil Liberties Union of California and the Drug...

Columbus is rolling out the hemp carpet for medical marijuana. Cultivators who want to be among the 24 licensed marijuana growers that the state will approve under a new law allowing for medical cannabis cannot plant their facilities in jurisdictions that enact moratoriums. Columbus has no...

Medical marijuana growers would be able to sell up to 20 pounds of their crop into Oregon's recreational market under a bill that has advanced in the Legislature. House Bill 2198 is another stab by lawmakers at reshaping Oregon's older but troubled medical marijuana program so it can coexist...

The shelves were empty and cabinets bare as Tai Cheng led the way through the soon-to-open medical marijuana dispensary Tuesday. Cheng, an attorney turned cannabis entrepreneur, is the chief operating officer of Aloha Green, one of three companies that won licenses to grow and sell medical...