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On July 1, Arkansans will be able to start purchasing licenses to grow, sell, and buy medical marijuana. Corey Hunt, co-founder of Natural State Healthcare is excited, he plans to open a medical cannabis care center in Mulberry Arkansas. "We're hoping to bring in medical professionals...

Industrial rents in already-pricey cities like Los Angeles and Boston are poised to rise further thanks to one burgeoning industry: cannabis. Marijuana startups are snapping up space in those cities as part of a wave of legalization that was set in motion by ballot-box victories last...

Canada's largest marijuana initial public offering is a bust. MedReleaf, Canada's second-largest licensed grower of medical marijuana, plunged by 28% in its trading debut on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Wednesday morning. It was the biggest drop for a Canadian IPO since 2001, Bloomberg said...

The debate over recreational marijuana for adults raged in the House for 90 minutes Tuesday afternoon into the evening, before it was pulled from a stage-managed debate. Democratic House leaders allowed proponents the time to bring the issue to public discussion, as a possible first step...

With medical and recreational marijuana use now legal in Maine, today’s growers are combining green thumbs with advanced chemistry to produce varieties to treat everything from anxiety to pain. But things have changed a bit since the days when marijuana was an illicit drug sold on the black...

Two years after residents roundly rejected the retail sale of marijuana, Milliken officials are again plotting for pot. The town will host a community meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Milliken Police Department, 1201 Broad St., Milliken, to discuss allowing the sale of marijuana in town...

Uruguay's envoy to Ottawa says his small South American country has opened up some breathing room for marijuana legalization within international treaties that have outlawed recreational pot for decades. Ambassador Martin Vidal credits his country, the first to legalize recreational cannabis...

To some purveyors of that green, leafy and legal-in-Colorado substance – as well as its edible, drinkable and fellow byproducts – the term "pot shop" makes them cringe. You also can add "weed," "marijuana," "dope" and other monikers to a list of terms that makes them as uncomfortable as those...

In a move that could have major implications for the medical marijuana industry, a Seminole-owned company is taking the first step toward setting up marijuana-growing operations on Native American land. A company owned in part by former Seminole Chairman James Billie will announce today that...

After more than an hour of discussion between council members and the public Monday night, the West York Borough Council voted down a proposed ordinance to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. The ordinance, first proposed by West York Mayor Shawn Mauck in January, was intended to give...

Women with menstrual cramps in New York state could have a new option for easing their monthly pains: medical marijuana. The New York State Assembly is considering a bill to add dysmenorrhea — the medical name for menstrual cramps — to the list of conditions for which doctors can legally...

Plenty of companies are angling to get in on the coming legalized pot bonanza. Some, however, are lobbying the state to carve off a piece just for them: cigarette wholesalers. The companies that track, deliver, and tax all the cigarettes sold in Massachusetts are seeking a similar monopoly on...

A medical marijuana dispensary could open in Bethlehem Township by early next year, and the owners and township officials want to assure the public that it won't be a place full of stoned hippies camped out on the lawn. The operation still needs a state license, but the township commissioners...

Doctors will be able to prescribe a form of medical marijuana without needing Government approval, Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne announced today. Dunne said that restrictions around cannabidiol, or CBD, would be removed, bringing New Zealand into line with other countries including...

On the heels of the state Legislature approving funding for continued development of an industrial hemp program, Hawaii Island hosts the first Hawaii Hemp Conference next weekend. The event begins Friday with a welcome dinner and concert, with a mini-expo and marketplace taking place Saturday...

There are good days for West Tarricone. Days when she can laugh and live like any other 9-year-old. Days when she can play with her brother, Blake, and watch “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on her iPad. But there are also bad days. Days when her body weathers 100 seizures. Days when it has closer to...

Medical marijuana could be available to patients on the Lower Shore as early as September at one dispensary now under development in Salisbury. And several other companies aren't far behind its lead in the region. That progress, however, comes with a potential hitch: The state licensing...

The legislature provided the latest example from a dysfunctional session Monday as a bipartisan effort to legalize recreational marijuana broke down minutes before its public announcement. Reps. Josh Elliott, D-Hamden, and Melissa Ziobron, R-East Haddam, engaged in an argument a few feet from...

It has virtually no chance of passage, but House majority leaders said Monday they may throw a bone to supporters of recreational marijuana, and allow them to bring the issue to the floor for a brief - and losing - debate. Speaker of the House Joe Aresimowicz and House Majority Leader said...

Nevada lawmakers are on the last day of a session that became focused on disagreements over education savings accounts, capital improvements and a proposed marijuana tax. The education funding debate had lawmakers working to resolve budget uncertainty in the final days of the 2017 session...