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Colorado Springs - Law enforcement raids on a handful of pot 'gifting' shops are shining a light on the massive divide between the licensed, tax-paying medical marijuana businesses and the growing number of renegade retail stores. The practice of giving out marijuana with the purchase of other...

A group representing a number of quasi-legal pot shops in the city of L.A. will throw its considerable weight behind a City Hall—sponsored effort to make those dispensaries fully legal. The organization, the United Cannabis Business Alliance, is scrapping its own measure, which already had...

Fines are quadrupling for businesses operating without a licence in Vancouver as city staff struggle to shut down unlicensed pot shops. City councillors voted Wednesday to increase fines to $1,000 a day, from $250 a day, for unlicensed businesses and licensed operators who fail to comply with...

Two of the pot shops raided by police two weeks ago are back in business. The Green Tree dispensaries on Preston Street and Montreal Road opened on the weekend. Both were sparsely stocked Monday with a few jars of dried weed selling for $10 to $14 a gram. The popular edibles - cannabis...

Pueblo, CO. The majority of voters in Pueblo say they want retail marijuana shops within city limits. Now city leaders have the task of setting guidelines to help get the shops set up appropriately. Ballot issue 2B asked voters to approve retail marijuana shops within city limits. The...

Yakima, Wash. - Local marijuana shops are quietly popping up in Yakima - one is open, another was shut down by the city Wednesday and two more are expected to open within the next year. City officials shut down Sweet Relief Boutique on Wednesday after learning the 11th Street pot shop near...

A number of cities and towns are exploring ways to limit or even snuff out marijuana shops in their communities, less than a week after voters legalized the drug for recreational use in Massachusetts. Some local officials worry that a profusion of marijuana stores will turn quaint New England...

THE MEDIA: Internet. WHO SAID IT: Marijuana Consumers Against Fake Marijuana Legalization. THE COMMENT: "(Prop. 205) can prohibit smoke shops from selling glass, vapes and other cannabis related items." THE FORUM: Facebook post. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT: Whether Proposition 205...

Aiming to rid San Diego of illegal pot shops, city officials are partnering on a new campaign urging people to use only the 15 medical marijuana dispensaries that have received permits to operate legally. The most effective way to put the roughly 20 to 30 illegal shops out of business is to...

Aiming to rid San Diego of illegal pot shops, city officials are partnering on a new campaign urging people to use only the 15 medical marijuana dispensaries that have received permits to operate legally. The most effective way to put the roughly 20 to 30 illegal shops out of business is to...

Even the most upstanding marijuana dispensaries in the city of Los Angeles aren't fully legit. They're tolerated under voter-approved Proposition D, which gives limited legal immunity to 135 or fewer collectives. Otherwise, pot shops are 100 percent illegal in this here town. That's a problem...

The largest city in Colorado to ban marijuana sales just voted to lift the ban and allow lucrative pot shops. The city council of Thornton, the sixth largest city in Colorado, just voted five to four to allow marijuana dispensaries, The Denver Post reported Tuesday. The move was partially...

The Pullman City Council decided at its Aug. 16 meeting to increase the space between marijuana shops and areas such as libraries, public transit hubs and childcare centers from the state-required minimum of 100 feet to 500 feet. This decision is set to become final on Aug. 30, when the council...

B.C. communities struggling to deal with unregulated marijuana sales are looking for help, or a piece of the action as growers and sellers compete for a share of the expanding legal market. Pot problems are high on the agenda for the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in September...

Companies that want to open medical marijuana dispensaries in Massachusetts are being pressured into paying an unnecessarily high price to follow the letter of the law. The licensing process for dispensaries established under the state Department of Public Health is rightfully rigorous. But the...

Companies that want to open medical marijuana dispensaries in Massachusetts are being pressured into paying an unnecessarily high price to follow the letter of the law. The licensing process for dispensaries established under the state Department of Public Health is rightfully rigorous. But the...

Vancouver - They are ubiquitous, still. Marijuana dispensaries, ranging in style from pristine to slightly scary to plain sad, continue to offer illicit products in Vancouver, despite an expensive effort by city officials to limit their number with rules and enforcement provisions unique in...

Vancouver - They are ubiquitous, still. Marijuana dispensaries, ranging in style from pristine to slightly scary to plain sad, continue to offer illicit products in Vancouver, despite an expensive effort by city officials to limit their number with rules and enforcement provisions unique in...

Marijuana shops across the U.S. are getting some work done - a nip here, a tuck there and sometimes an entire face-lift. Call it "Extreme Makeover: Dispensary Edition." Pot shops, once sparsely decorated storefronts run by people more worried about DEA raids and federal seizures than LED...

The next wave of pot shops flouting Vancouver's dispensary bylaw has been slapped with injunction papers. The City of Vancouver is continuing its crackdown on unlicenced pot shops, applying in court for 10 more injunctions this week. That's on top of 17 injunctions filed in May, which...