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Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister wants the federal government to postpone legislation to legalize marijuana. The federal Liberals have promised the law in the spring, but Pallister says he and some other premiers have concerns that there are still many details to work out. Pallister says...

Just because California legalized cannabis doesn't mean everyone in the pot industry will participate in the state's highly regulated, above-ground market. While many businesses will participate in the legal marketplace - estimated to be worth $4.3 billion by 2018 - those who remain in the black...

Albania has become the largest producer of outdoor-grown cannabis in Europe. The potent plant has been described as "green gold" for struggling farmers. In a poor nation, it's a billion-euro industry. Off a dirt road, in a small village north of Tirana, there's a half-built, tumble-down...

Mike Crawford regularly rides his bike, goes hiking, lifts weights, even spends some time on the wrestling mat. That might not seem a big deal, even for a 45-year-old, except for the debilitating back injury the Marblehead resident suffered in the late 1990s. Crawford, then head wrestling coach...

Jason Elsasser surveys his two-acre patch of windswept sand outside the California town of Desert Hot Springs, and sees a fortune. "This whole area back here," he says, pointing to a blank desert plot dotted with rocks and shrubs, "is going to be a 22,000-sq ft, state-of-the-art greenhouse that...

In the wake of Proposition 64, California's law to legalize weed for adults over 21, small businesses and boutique growers will have to stake a space for themselves in California's quickly growing cannabis industry. "From my perspective as a retailer, there's no doubt we're going to see...

Boston - The state's top elections official says procedural issues could slightly delay the state's new marijuana law. The voter-approved measure which legalizes recreational marijuana is scheduled to take effect on Dec. 15. But Secretary of State William Galvin says the Governor's Council is...

It's early evening in a parking lot outside a DoubleTree in northeast Denver. At the north end of the lot is a 1987 Winnebago with seven people inside, gathered around a table covered with cannabis products: a concentrate pen, a dab rig, some bud flower and edibles. Once most of the group has...

Canada will soon introduce legislation to legalise recreational marijuana. Pot advocates are not as happy as you might think. The Cannabis Culture dispensary in downtown Toronto gets a steady stream of foot traffic around noon on a weekday. But Marc Emery, who helped set up the franchise...

The legal use of medical cannabis made headway this week as South Africa's department of health plans to have cannabis recognised as a prescription drug, rather than an illegal substance. The Medical Control Council (MCC) has announced that their investigation into the use of medical cannabis...

John Stewart used to run the pharmaceutical company behind the narcotic painkiller OxyContin. Now he is banking on medical marijuana. Mr Stewart does not know which is more controversial these days, OxyContin or pot. He guesses the average person would give "a bigger negative" to the...

Cannabis should be legalised in the UK, according to a report that has the backing of several cross-party MPs including the former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg. Current cannabis policy in Britain is a "messy patchwork" of legislation intermittently enforced by regional police and an...

Since she first got involved in marijuana activism, Madeline Martinez has wanted to give cannabis consumers a place of their own - somewhere out of the way where they could smoke in peace and security. Initially she tried to provide this through a series of small and short-lived "cannabis...

Sales of legal marijuana in Washington State since the opening of the first legal store have officially topped $1 billion, with more product sold every year since legalization. While many wondered what the effects of legalizing marijuana would be, with those kinds of sales, one outcome is...

It's 4:20 on a Thursday afternoon, and Jodie Emery is teaching me how to roll one of her signature joints. "I rolled my first when I was 16, on top of a copy of Cannabis Culture magazine," she says, grinding up a hybrid strain called Green Crack, popular for its higher concentration of sativa, a...

Neill Franklin, former undercover narcotics cop in Baltimore, was at the PAL in Wilmington, Del. last night making a case for legal marijuana. "Marijuana is what gets us [the police] into your pockets, into your cars and into everything else," Franklin told the group. Delaware decriminalized...

As California prepares to enter the world of recreational weed, officials and business owners are closely watching how the state will govern the largest marijuana economy in the country. California has until January 2018 until formal regulations go into effect, giving the Bureau of Medical...

More than 2,000 people in Vermont are enrolled in the state's medical marijuana registry, but some lawmakers say many eligible patients still have trouble obtaining medical cannabis. Proposed legislation would lower some of the barriers to access. Bennington County Sen. Dick Sears...

It took nearly a week for the results to be finalized, but it's official: Denver voters have approved the social cannabis use initiative on the November 8 ballot. "The voters of Denver have once again spoken and decided to adopt a sensible, new approach to marijuana policy," says I-300...

Providence, R.I. - Rhode Island leaders are looking at following Massachusetts on the path to legalizing recreational marijuana. Gov. Gina Raimondo said Tuesday she'll take a more serious look after Massachusetts voters approved a pot legalization ballot measure last week. The Democrat...