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The K-12 school in Deer Trail, Colorado, is in rot. The swimming pool is in such grave shape that students can't use it anymore. People in wheelchairs have to be lifted up stairs. A sewage leak has closed the coach's locker room. Even basic security is a problem, as the doors are so out of shape...

In Pueblo, pot pays for college (well, some of it). On June 20, 210 high school seniors got $2,000 each from the Pueblo County Scholarship Fund and the Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative. In total, $420,000 was disbursed. That is believed to be the first cannabis tax-funded scholarship...

As Oregon economists calculated their May revenue forecast, they had new figures to add in: marijuana taxes. They estimated marijuana sales will create about $210 million in taxes through the middle of 2019. That may sound like a lot, but local officials reached by the Statesman Journal...

Each day about lunchtime at Warner Robins High School, 17-year-old CJ Harris must leave campus to take his medicine. His dad, Curtis Harris, drives to school, gets CJ out of class, and the two ride around the block or sometimes head home. CJ draws some cannabis oil in a syringe, squirts it...

Denver - Grant money from the Department of Education and the tax on marijuana is going to help fight bullying. "It's a three-year grant program so the amount goes up a little bit each year," said Annie Trujillo from New America School in Lowry. Seventy-three schools across 14 school...

Mount Greenwood – Saint Xavier University will host a discussion about the use of medical marijuana at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 9 on its main campus at 3700 W. 103rd St. in Mount Greenwood. Dr. Judith A. Paice is the director of a cancer pain program and a research professor at Northwestern...

Mount Greenwood – Saint Xavier University will host a discussion about the use of medical marijuana at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 9 on its main campus at 3700 W. 103rd St. in Mount Greenwood. Dr. Judith A. Paice is the director of a cancer pain program and a research professor at Northwestern...

Meagan Holt's daughter, Maddie, suffered life-threatening daily seizures until medical marijuana gave her relief. But as Maddie neared school age, her mom worried federal laws would prevent Maddie from taking cannabis at school. Holt, of Mill Creek, reached out to state lawmakers for help...

A bill seeking to allow parents of students who are prescribed medical marijuana products by their physician to apply them at state schools has been introduced into the Washington state House of Representatives. House Bill 1060 was introduced by 19th District Reps. Jim Walsh and Brian Blake...

An Amsterdam cannabis cafe or coffeeshop which can trace its roots back to 1973 will open for the last time on Saturday because of city rules preventing the sale of marijuana close to schools. Mellow Yellow, now on the Vijzelstraat, first opened in a squatted bakery on the Weesperzijde. It...

A judge has temporarily barred a marijuana dispensary from operating across the street from Lincoln High School in Riverside. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Sunshine Sykes ruled Dec. 19 that the business, Presidential Collective, must stay closed until Jan. 20, when a hearing is set to...

Easthampton, Mass. — Easthampton school officials are urging City Council members to consider imposing a limit on the number of stores that can sell marijuana. School leaders and youth advocates Wednesday night voiced concern about how an increase in marijuana shops could impact teenagers...

Easthampton - School officials and youth advocates on Wednesday asked the City Council to limit the number of retail marijuana licenses allowed in the city, citing concerns about the potential for pot shops to influence teen drug use and harm Easthampton's "family friendly culture." The...

Students will legally be allowed to take cannabis in school after a town's landmark legislation change. Schools in Ridgefield Park, a district in New Jersey, USA, will permit parents and guardians to administer medical marijuana to pupils while on school grounds, on a school bus or at...

One Bergen County school district now allows students to be administered medical marijuana while on school grounds. The Ridgefield Park Board of Education adopted a policy Wednesday allowing parents to administer medical marijuana to their children while at district schools, on a district...

Ridgefield Park - The Board of Education is expected to adopt a policy Wednesday night allowing medical marijuana on school grounds. The second of two votes required to adopt the policy will be taken after a public hearing. The measure follows legislation signed by Governor Christie this...

In 2012, backers of Colorado's landmark constitutional amendment legalizing recreational marijuana pressed their case by touting the financial benefits to the state's schools. Four years later, backers of a record number of school tax measures on this year's ballot are finding the need to...

Woburn - The School Committee continues to examine the potential repercussions of legalizing marijuana use in Massachusetts, but at least one board member clarified that visitors to local schools will still be prohibited from carrying the drug on educational grounds. During a recent meeting...

Steamboat Springs - Students with a medical marijuana prescription would be allowed to use marijuana on school grounds only under a strict set of rules, according to a new policy drafted by Steamboat Springs School District staff. The Board of Education reviewed the draft policy, which was...

Steamboat Springs - Students with a medical marijuana prescription would be allowed to use marijuana on school grounds only under a strict set of rules, according to a new policy drafted by Steamboat Springs School District staff. The Board of Education reviewed the draft policy, which was...