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Colorado's two U.S. Senators are leading a new bipartisan effort to provide banking for marijuana businesses. Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican Cory Gardner are co-sponsors of the legislation. "The lack of access to banking services for marijuana businesses is a key issue in...

Republican Gov. Phil Scott on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have made Vermont the ninth state to legalize recreational marijuana, but indicated that he was willing to work with the Legislature on a compromise. Scott said he was sending the bill back with suggestions for another path...

After City of Grand Forks heard a presentation on the potential legal ramifications of having a dispensary bylaw last week, questions arose from the gallery on the city's involvement in the recent RCMP action towards dispensaries in the city. Dave Smith from Smithplan Consulting presented the...

Amid growing concern about opioid addiction, a Canadian researcher studying cannabis for chronic pain relief presented his preliminary results in Halifax Wednesday. Dr. Jason Busse, McGill University associate professor, told this week’s Canadian Pain Society conference at the Marriot Hotel...

Washington's Initiative 502 made possession and sales of recreational marijuana legal, but things are still tricky, at least from a legal perspective. "We thought I-502 would change or limit our business, but really it's tripled our business," said Frank Cikutovich, of Spokane's Stiley &...

Lynnette Shaw, the self-styled godmother of medical marijuana dispensaries in California, announced this week that she will reopen her medical cannabis dispensary in Fairfax. Proving the wisdom of Alexander Graham Bell's maxim – "When one door closes, another opens" – Shaw broke the news at a...

Backers of a medical marijuana ballot initiative tell FOX 13 they plan to ask voters to approve whole plant cannabis when it goes before voters next year. "There are many Utahns who need the full spectrum cannabis," said Connor Boyack, who is acting as a consultant for the ballot initiative...

The fallout from the medical marijuana legislative debate has many wondering when the medical marijuana industry will be up and running, even after voters overwhelmingly voted to approve the expansion of legalizing medical marijuana last fall. In November, 71 percent of voters approved a...

With Pennsylvania well on its way toward implementing a medical marijuana program, dozens of lawyers in the state are preparing for an explosion of legal work related to cannabis. The blossoming industry is reminiscent of the surge in legal work that grew out of the Marcellus Shale play...

After months of delays, Delaware's second medical marijuana dispensary opened in Sussex County on Friday — just in time for Memorial Day weekend. "The timing was not intentional," spokeswoman Pamela Johnston said. "We were waiting to get through all of our inspections and it just worked out...

Gov. Rick Snyder on Friday made long-awaited appointments to a board that will control medical marijuana licenses in Michigan, including a former lobbyist with ties to the medical marijuana industry who was named chairman of the influential board. Chosen for the board are: -Former Speaker...

A Baltimore judge put Maryland's medical marijuana industry temporarily on hold Thursday, granting the request of a company that alleged state regulators illegally ignored racial diversity when picking firms to grow the drug. Circuit Judge Barry Williams said the Maryland Medical Cannabis...

Marijuana edibles can be tricky. Candies, brownies, teas or other THC-infused foods and beverages can take an hour or more to have the desired effect and a typical "newbie" mistake is to take a second dose because the first one "doesn't seem to be doing anything." When both doses kick in, the...

Gov. Phil Scott rejected a marijuana legalization bill that passed the Vermont Legislature this month, but said he was willing to work with lawmakers on a compromise. Scott said he would send the bill back to the Legislature with suggestions to strengthen the bill to his liking. His specific...

As the sun slowly rises on California's newly voter-approved recreational weed industry, so does it rise on Michael Steinmetz' grand vision of converting a giant Northern California former wine estate into a destination for all-things marijuana – with services ranging from a marijuana processing...

Jeanine Moss, a 62-year-old grandmother of two, never expected to get into the cannabis industry. But that was before her hip-replacement surgery. Ms. Moss, of Marina Del Ray, Calif., had quit her job as a marketing consultant before she had her hip done in 2014. As she left the hospital, her...

Maui Grown Therapies is aiming to open as early as July, selling lotions, tinctures, oils, capsules and concentrates at its first dispensary in the Maui Lani Village Center, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. However, the state Department of Health still needs to approve a third-party laboratory...

Medical marijuana dispensaries hoping to do business in Bradenton will have to wait another six months after the city extended its moratorium on Wednesday. The one exception is the Trulieve dispensary in the 1100 block of 14th Street West, which filed for permits prior to the initial moratorium...

The Marin County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to reject appeals by seven marijuana dispensary applicants, including one in West Marin, and directed county staff to consider a delivery-only alternative and a revised approach to the permitting process. An eighth appeal, by a...

Brendan Curran, Otsego County prosecutor, said the letter he sent last week urging marijuana dispensaries to keep "within the limitations of the medical marijuana act" does not mean he will be targeting local marijuana businesses. In the letter, Curran said he "did not write to make any...