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Those interested in obtaining medical marijuana licenses for certain commercial establishments can get applications at City Clerk Chris Swope's office starting Friday, although dispensaries must wait. The city's new medical marijuana ordinance takes effect Saturday and sets up licensing for...

How would a legalized marijuana industry in Delaware function? A 25-member task force charged with answering that question will roll up its sleeves Wednesday and begin discussing some of the more pressing issues around that question. The Adult Use Cannabis Task Force will hold its second...

Voters in some parts of Alaska were deciding whether to ban commercial marijuana cultivation and retail sales, three years after the nation's largest state passed a voter initiative legalizing the recreational use of the drug. The votes Tuesday came during local elections in the state's major...

Cannabis legalization has led to a drop in the price of pot in 2017, a new report confirms. According to the "2017 Mid-Year Wholesale Market Report" released by Cannabis Benchmarks, wholesale marijuana prices dropped 18.6 percent throughout the U.S. in the first half of 2017, reports the...

A Wisconsin congressman is supporting a bill that would allow American farmers to grow industrial hemp. Sixth District congressman Glenn Grothman said he can't imagine any reasons to object to returning hemp as a crop for Wisconsin farmers. "It was something that we used to grow in the...

Last year the state of California produced 13.5 million pounds of marijuana, but residents only consumed 2.5 million pounds of it. Most of the state's cannabis ended up being sold to other states, including those where it is illegal. Now experts say that excess marijuana could be a problem as...

Every time he sees the cannabis cultivation and processing facility in southeastern Massachusetts, Peter Bernard says it makes his "New England blood boil." Bernard, president of the Massachusetts Grower Advocacy Council, told state regulators on Monday that's because the 1 million square...

Memo to all you Golden State tokers: Your dreams of buying recreational pot in California after New Year's Day are hazy at best. It's become clear in recent weeks that most cities around the Bay Area, as well as the rest of the state, will not be ready to permit recreational cannabis sales...

The first medical marijuana seminar in the state took place at the Waterfront Hotel in Morgantown Saturday. The West Virginia Medical Cannabis society hosted the public event to inform people about the medical marijuana industry. The seminar comes after governor Jim Justice signed a medical...

Scientists. Tax collectors. Typists. Analysts. Lawyers. And more scientists. Recreational marijuana use becomes legal in California in 2018, and one of the things to blossom in the emerging industry isn't green and leafy — it's government jobs. The state is on a hiring binge to fill what...

California produced at least 13.5 million pounds of marijuana last year – five times more than the 2.5 million pounds it consumed. Where did all that extra pot go? The answer, experts say, is that much of it ended up in other states – some where marijuana is still illegal. As California...

Few industries are growing as quickly as the legal marijuana industry. Within the U.S. -- according to data from Marijuana Business Daily's most recent annual report, entitled Marijuana Business Factbook 2017 -- legal pot sales are expected to grow by 30% in 2017 and 45% in 2018, and push higher...

Tribal leaders from California and Washington state last week discussed the potential opening of legal marijuana businesses on tribal lands. Several members of the National Indian Gaming Association attended the meeting and touted the financial and health rewards. David Vialpando, Santa Ysabel...

Lawmakers in Lansing say they want a seamless transition as marijuana dispensaries start to get licensed. Democrats in the House and Senate introduced legislation Wednesday. A few Republicans have voiced support of the bills. The legislation would let dispensaries keep their doors open while...

Sin City–and other areas of Nevada–are raising some serious cash with their latest vice. July was the first month of legal recreational marijuana sales in the state, which has just announced the tax impact. All totaled, medical and recreational cannabis sales generated $3.68 million in tax...

Nevada took a gamble on recreational marijuana, and it’s paying off. Dispensaries sold $27.1 million of pot in Nevada, in July alone. That's almost double what both Colorado and Oregon sold in their first months. It's almost seven times what Washington sold. Banking on weed, Nevada made...

The Georgia lawmaker who wrote the state's groundbreaking medical marijuana law has re-upped his call for the state to allow a limited form of cultivation and manufacturing, saying he wants to set a tone ahead of the upcoming legislative session. State Rep. Allen Peake, R-Macon, is urging...

City officials in Carlsbad voted 4-1 Tuesday to prohibit commercial marijuana activity including pot shops. The proposed ordinance would have changed the language in the Carlsbad Municipal Code to ban commercial outdoor cannabis growing as well. The new city ordinance matches state law...

Medical marijuana dispensaries would be allowed to stay open while the state decides who will get a license for the lucrative cannabis business, under a pair of bills introduced this week in the state Legislature. Sen. David Knezek, D-Dearborn Heights, and Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, will...

In his temporary budget-dealing with Democrats, President Trump has agreed to continue a ban on using federal funds to interfere in states' legal cannabis practices, but as 2018 nears, a government stance is largely still up in the air. Earlier this month, the president and congressional...