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Six years after the federal government forced the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana to close, the Fairfax dispensary is back in business. Lynnette Shaw, the self-styled godmother of medical marijuana dispensaries in California, reopened the doors to the dispensary at 6 School St. on June...

Lynnette Shaw, the self-styled godmother of medical marijuana dispensaries in California, announced this week that she will reopen her medical cannabis dispensary in Fairfax. Proving the wisdom of Alexander Graham Bell's maxim – "When one door closes, another opens" – Shaw broke the news at a...

While walking through the Field Museum of Natural History's psychoactive and medical plants exhibit in Chicago last year, it struck Eureka resident Kenny Gregg as odd that a marijuana plant was tucked far in the back, almost as an afterthought. "I was looking at that and thinking that maybe...

The federal war on legal medical marijuana providers is paused for now, thanks to a major legal victory in California. Lynnette Shaw, who is one of California's oldest dispensary operators prevailed Wednesday in her bid to overturn a nineteen year-old civil injunction barring her from the...

Dispensaries, not liquor stores, are the best outlets to sell recreational pot, according to the Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries. The statement comes shortly after B.C.'s and Ontario's public service unions called for legalized marijuana to be sold in liquor stores...