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Erin Ryan knows what it's like going viral on the internet. "This thing is blowing up," she said Monday. This "thing" was a large pile of marijuana apparently deliberately dumped Saturday in the parking lot at WinCo Foods in Redding. Ryan, who posted on Facebook a photo of the big pile of pot...

When she was 14, Sandra Andrade first learned about marijuana from her brother who had an outdoor garden. Today, the 36-year-old works at downtown L.A. dispensary Kushmart, where she helms the point-of-sale contact for those who want to purchase cannabis products. In weed industry terms, she's a...

The Shelby County Community Services medical marijuana growing facility has given jobs to disabled people and helped fund the organization that's seen a dwindling supply of state funding, according to its executive director. For decades, Shelby County Community Services has relied on state...

City leaders in Hilliard will soon decide if they want to allow medical marijuana businesses open within their city limits. City Council members have been weighing whether to approve an ordinance allowing one marijuana dispensary, but no production facilities or growing sites. "We've got a...

In Washington, it is now as easy to get marijuana delivered to your front door as pizza. Really expensive pizza. More than two years after the District allowed residents to legally cultivate and possess cannabis for personal use, a growing gray market of companies has sprung up that will...

Most sensible Americans these days believe in ending the War on Drugs. The facts are clear that low-level drug arrests ruin lives and tear families apart. Some day, selling weed in Florida will no longer feed thousands of new prisoners into the state's broken criminal justice system. But that...

Jay Schlauch's conviction for peddling pot haunted him for nearly a quarter century. The felony prevented him from landing jobs, gave his wife doubts about tying the knot and cast a shadow over his typically sunny outlook on life. So when an opportunity arose to reduce his record to a...

A measure to legalize recreational marijuana in Minnesota would be put on the ballot in 2018 under a bill introduced on Saturday by a Rochester lawmaker. DFL Rep. Tina Liebling is sponsoring the measure, which proposes a constitutional amendment to allow people age 21 and older to buy and...

In a plot of desert surrounded by Joshua trees and aging factories, developer James Previti – in a suit coat and Louis Vuitton shades – watches as construction workers build the roof of a concrete building that from afar looks like a future Costco. Previti has spent years developing homes...

Jay Schlauch's conviction for peddling pot haunted him for nearly a quarter century. The felony prevented him from landing jobs, gave his wife doubts about tying the knot and cast a shadow over his typically sunny outlook on life. So when an opportunity arose to reduce his record to a...

A judge has rebuffed efforts by medical marijuana users to force the state to reduce the fees it charges patients. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jo Lynn Gentry said does not dispute that the Department of Health Services is collecting more from medical marijuana users than it needs to...

The latest entrant to the federal NDP leadership race says it's "offensive" the government is allowing people to be charged with marijuana possession while there's a bill before Parliament to legalize it. Jagmeet Singh, who currently sits in the Ontario legislature, said Canada absolutely needs...

A medicinal marijuana business denied a license in Gloucester is one of two in talks with Salem leaders about opening up facilities there. Boston-based Mayflower Medicinals is looking at 151 Canal St., the site of the defunct Wicked Cup shop, as a potential medical marijuana dispensary...

Utah advocates for medical cannabis have all but given up on state lawmakers making the kind of progress they believe people battling chronic conditions and severe pain so desperately need. "I'm frustrated they haven't done anything legislatively. It's time they listened to the people – I'm...

A little Ramona girl has reached another milestone – her fourth birthday. Born with the rare genetic disorder Schinzel-Giedion syndrome, Sadie Higuera wasn't expected to live beyond age 2. A year ago, she began attending a special needs preschool at Ramona Elementary, and her parents, Brian...

Smoking lounges could still be the next trend for Oregon's recreational marijuana market, under a controversial Senate bill in the Legislature's Joint Committee on Marijuana Regulation. Proponents say cannabis smoking lounges would stimulate tourism and give renters a place to legally smoke...

Workers at McLane drive forklifts and load hefty boxes into trucks. The grocery supplier, which runs a warehouse in Colorado, needs people who will stay alert - but prospective hires keep failing drug screens."Some weeks this year, 90 percent of applicants would test positive for something,"...

The Carson City Board of Supervisors on Thursday decided to extend a ban on the sale of recreational marijuana until an ordinance addressing the new business is drafted. The board had the option to let the existing moratorium expire in July and allow the city's two medical marijuana...

Damaris, an employee of a cannabis cultivation business in Los Angeles, told the City Council on Friday she feared for her life when police officers arrested her at gunpoint earlier this month while she was at work. "Being detained in that way was humiliating, and I was scared because I...

In a two-page memo issued to his staff and made publicly available last Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered federal prosecutors to seek the toughest possible charges and sentences for drug crime suspects, a drastic shift from the more lenient approach that became a pillar of Barack...