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A northwest North Dakota tobacco store owner who is facing charges for selling products allegedly containing an illegal substance derived from marijuana says he did not know that he could be violating the law, and contends that ingredients in his merchandise do not fall under controlled...

A number of business owners are banding together to petition city leaders to cap the number of marijuana businesses allowed in the downtown core. Owner of the Historic Anchorage Hotel, Bob Neumann said "dozens" of his fellow business owners have signed a petition asking the Anchorage Assembly...

Hamilton leaders are considering updating their ban on medical marijuana facilities so city ordinances are better synced with state law. Hamilton City Council in February of 2015 approved legislation that prohibited sales of medical marijuana in the city. More than a year later, in May of 2016...

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 she does not dispute that the Department of Health Services is collecting more from medical marijuana users than it needs...

Keeping tabs on the amount of medical cannabis available throughout the state may seem straightforward, but a review of quarterly reports seem to show more cannabis available for sale than what was grown or produced. While the state's Department of Health requires producers to accurately...

With businesses expected to get state licenses in January to sell marijuana in California, the top regulator said Thursday that they will be given up to six months to comply with a requirement the pot be thoroughly tested by a licensed laboratory. State pot czar Lori Ajax said it may take...

The marijuana industry is off limits to Alaska law enforcement officers, says the state council that oversees police. The Alaska Police Standards Council wrote Thursday that all marijuana conduct is "incompatible with the law enforcement profession." The decision was made at a May 3 meeting...

Ricardo Rivera was alone, surrounded by a crush of media and lobbyists, when he watched the unveiling Monday of a bill that would fully legalize marijuana in New Jersey. Rivera's daughter, Tuffy, 10, is a licensed medical marijuana patient who uses cannabis for seizures under the state's...

The broader legalization of marijuana and the upcoming start of retail sales could lead to an evolution of the state's medical marijuana program, Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders said Thursday. Four years after approving medicinal marijuana at the ballot, voters in November...

Three San Luis Obispo County supervisors were stunned last week to read a new draft ordinance on marijuana. The draft bore almost no resemblance to the ordinance the board had directed staff to modify. While the supervisors had assigned Assistant County Administrator Guy Savage to make a few...

Regulated marijuana sales are growing rapidly in participating states, but with federal legalization still a slow-turning wheel, it could take decades for the industry to fully mature on a national level. On the back of 11 states passing marijuana-related measures last year, marijuana sales...

The concept of decriminalizing marijuana received universal support from all four candidates at Tuesday evening's national election debate. Finance Minister Marco Archer and independent candidates Matthew Leslie, Kenneth Bryan and Austin Harris all said they support a more lenient approach when...

Everybody must get stoned, the famous Bob Dylan lyric goes. And as far as country singer Willie Nelson is concerned, that goes for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a hardline anti-marijuana crusader. Nelson is a crusader, too, though he is thoroughly in the pro-marijuana camp. Snoop Dogg...

Alaska's first marijuana club, Pot Luck Events, has closed its doors after a years-long legal skirmish with state officials. The club's legality faced disputes from the beginning. The final straw was a cease-and-desist order from state regulators, and the passing of the club's founder, just...

A coalition seeking to legalize recreational marijuana in Michigan got the green light Thursday to circulate petitions and plans to begin collecting signatures immediately in hopes of making the 2018 ballot, a spokesman said. The Board of State Canvassers unanimously approved the form of...

Regulated marijuana sales are growing rapidly in participating states, but with federal legalization still a slow-turning wheel, it could take decades for the industry to fully mature on a national level. On the back of 11 states passing marijuana-related measures last year, sales of...

McHenry could be getting closer to bringing in a medical marijuana dispensary with the support of local residents. "Bringing something like this into McHenry County is going to make the whole state realize that this is not a voodoo thing," McHenry resident Judy Gee said. "It's important, it's...

The founders of Knox Medical don't want you to think of their new facilities as pot shops. Standing behind the counter in a white-walled room accented with brick and lightly stained wood, Bruce Knox and Jose Hidalgo, co-founders of the company, are hoping it reminds you more of a medical or...

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,"...

Hope for expanding medical-marijuana access and creating a civil penalty for possession of small amounts of the substance aren't quite snuffed out in the Capitol, despite setbacks. On Wednesday, Heather Fazio, Texas political director for the Marijuana Policy Project, said she'd identified...