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Last year The Sun provided some perspective on the "Potconomy," the coming of the legalization of marijuana. In that article, we noted that one pot dispensary in the City of Sebastopol contributes $250,000/yr. in sales taxes to that city's coffers, and that the City of Sonoma was way behind the...

When Jeff Patterson first created Eaze, an app service that allows medical marijuana patients to purchase home-delivered cannabis products from 100 different dispensaries across California, 80 percent of the marijuana products purchased through the app consisted of raw flower. But nearly three...

Colorado's legal marijuana dispensaries sold $1.3 billion worth of pot during 2016, according to tax data released Thursday, signaling the state's best year since legalizing recreational weed in 2013. Statistics released by the Colorado Department of Revenue this week indicate the state's...

Spokane County pot shops sold less marijuana in January than in December, but revenue still topped last year's figures. The 29 state-licensed marijuana stores operating in Spokane County last month sold $7 million worth of product, off nearly 7 percent from the $7.4 million sold the previous...

With legal marijuana sales set to begin in California in less than a year, Los Angeles County leaders will introduce a motion Tuesday to start the process of crafting a set of regulations to protect public safety and to encourage a sustainable and potentially multi-billion-dollar cannabis...

Two more Roseburg marijuana vendors are now eligible to sell recreational marijuana to the public as of this week. Since Jan. 1, dispensaries were prohibited by law from selling retail marijuana to the public without a recreational marijuana license, but they could still sell to medical...

Maine has joined eight other states and the District of Columbia in legalizing the recreational use of Marijuana as of Monday. But sales will not be allowed for another year as a special legislative committee develops rules for how those sales will take place. Legally, you can now possess 2.5...

Cannabis consumers could be paying more Colorado marijuana tax come July 1. As with any proposed tax increase, the prospect has been met with some concern amid the news that one of the state's pot taxes would increase 50 percent. At issue is a proposal floated this week by Colorado Gov. John...

Sales of recreational marijuana in Oregon continued to plummet in December, figures from the Oregon Department of Revenue show. Taxes collected on sales totaled $5.6 million in December, a 13 percent decline from November and a 28 percent drop from the peak of $7.8 million in October. For...

Recreational marijuana sales in Oregon produced $60.2 million in state tax -revenue in 2016, the first year of state-taxed pot sales. For much of the year, -marijuana sellers collected a 25 percent sales tax. To produce the $60.2 million in tax revenue reported by the state Department of...

Colorado marijuana shops tallied just over $106 million in sales this past November, putting the industry's 2016 sales totals just shy of $1.2 billion – with returns from the typically bountiful month of December still to come. Sales of marijuana and related products translated to $17.7...

Shortly after his election, Gov. Phil Scott listed three specific things that legislators must address when considering cannabis legalization, if they want to avoid his veto pen. "I hope they hear me loud and clear," he warned, that road safety, THC-infused "edibles," and taxes are the three...

Rapper Snoop Dogg may have money on the mind of the owners of retail pot shop Royal's Cannabis after a visit in December. The store posted a 10.6 percent sales increase last month compared to their sales in November, according to numbers reported by the Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board...

YES John F. Keenan State senator, Quincy Democrat With the passage of Question 4, on Dec. 15 it became legal in Massachusetts to possess marijuana for recreational use. However, last month the Legislature and the governor passed legislation that delays some parts of the marijuana law by six...

Karson Humiston knows how to help you get a job – and how to create your own. At 24, she's the CEO and founder of Vangst Talent Network (formerly Graduajana), a company she started in college. Vangst will be holding a career fair and product showcase in Denver on Thursday, January 19, to help...

Legal cannabis sales in America are growing at a rate faster than the dot-com boom of 2000, new figures show. According to a study by ArcView Market Research, the market has grown by 30% in the last year and posted $6.7bn (£5.43bn) in sales. That figure is expected to exceed $20bn by 2021...

This past election, Pueblo voters once again gave their seal of approval to the county's retail marijuana system and, implicitly, the earmarked tax revenue it generates. The pro-pot campaign drove the message, highlighting all the needed projects that would get support from the county's...

Boston – Marijuana won't be legally sold in Massachusetts for another 18 months, yet lawmakers are already being pushed to hike taxes amid warnings of a flourishing black market if rates are set too high. A voter approved law, parts of which went into effect Dec. 15, allows residents 21 and...

If you support the legalization of marijuana, 2016 didn't give you much to complain about. Last year, residents in four states approved recreational-marijuana ballot initiatives, doubling the total from the end of 2015, while five new states put medical-cannabis laws on their books. By year's...

Proponents of legalizing and regulating recreational marijuana received some good news Tuesday, as a new market research study pegged the total value of legal North American sales of the drug in 2016 at $6.7 billion. That was a 30 percent rise over the previous year, according the report...