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A Superior Court judge is expected to rule Monday on whether a Rhode Island town can create its own medical marijuana ordinance that is stricter than state law. The town of Smithfield wants to limit the amount of marijuana a patient or caregiver is allowed to grow to significantly less than...

Ventura County supervisors are being asked Tuesday to start the process for banning businesses that sell or produce marijuana for recreational use, but also order an analysis of the potential for growing hemp. Supervisors Linda Parks and John Zaragoza called for the ban in the unincorporated...

State police have uncovered a massive marijuana growing operation -- approximately $30,000 worth of pot, according to troopers -- from an island on the Susquehanna River in Owego. The Underwater Recovery Team assisted the Community Narcotics Enforcement Team, better known as C-NET, with the...

Three companies that got state approval last month to produce medical marijuana in Orange and Ulster counties face a legal hurdle as they develop their plans: a lawsuit by five existing medical-marijuana businesses that aims to stop the expansion of their fledgling industry. The newly...

Farmers, businesses, universities and research groups can apply to grow and process industrial hemp through a state pilot program. Applications are open through Nov. 22. To apply, people must fill out an application form, which can be found and downloaded online, and submit it along with a...

A judge dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday against Gov. Matt Bevin and Attorney General Andy Beshear that called for the legalization of medical marijuana in Kentucky. In his opinion, Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate wrote that the Kentucky Supreme Court clearly established in a 2000 decision...

Kalamazoo will postpone a decision on how it plans to react to new state laws governing medical marijuana facilities. Monday, City Attorney Clyde Robinson relayed news to the City Commission that the state's process for licensing medical marijuana facilities will not be ready by Dec. 15. That...

A group of mothers with epileptic children pleaded with a Bethlehem law firm on Tuesday to drop a suit that could shut down Pennsylvania's medical-marijuana program before it has a chance to launch. The lawsuit was filed Sept. 8 on behalf of a marijuana grower, Keystone ReLeaf LLC, which in...

State lawmakers are seeking advice on letting residents grow marijuana at home for personal use, and whether it's a good idea to do at all. At their direction, the state Liquor and Cannabis Board is studying two scenarios for allowing home grows of a minimal number of plants, and a third...

Oregon's enforcement of marijuana production and sales will get its first audit from the secretary of state. The audit will offer an official look at how well Oregon regulates its marijuana program, which is run by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. The audit will look at how the state...

Nine years after the legalization of medical marijuana in Michigan, not only are the rules confusing, but state and municipalities with medical marijuana ordinances have made little revenue from the industry. The product has not been taxed and the hundreds of dispensaries statewide are not...

Cannabis legalization inevitably leads states and local governments to at least discuss the impact of cannabis tourism. In your standard legalization regime, adults 21 and older from anywhere in the world can (and absolutely do) come to certain U.S. states to buy and consume cannabis from...

Come January, things will change in the state of New Jersey no matter who the state taps to succeed Gov. Chris Christie. Christie, a Republican, will leave office after eight years. It'll be the first time in nearly three decades the state's residents have had that amount of time the same...

When Maine solicited advice on how to set up its new recreational cannabis market, about a dozen groups from all over the country, from national marijuana consulting firms to the manager of a small Maine town, chimed in: Ban marijuana social clubs, despite the voters' will. Discourage "drug...

Kudos to the Lansing City Council, which after two years of debate, finally passed an ordinance addressing medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. This is a meaningful step toward providing this burgeoning industry with reasonable parameters — including a cap of 25 dispensaries within the...

What happens in Vegas will still stay in Vegas — but perhaps no longer behind closed doors, at least when it comes to pot. Earlier this week, Nevada's Legislative Counsel Bureau gave the green light for marijuana to be permitted in public places, as long as patrons are of legal age. Citing a...

New Hampshire just became the 22nd state in the U.S. to eliminate the possibility of spending time behind bars for possessing small amounts of marijuana. Earlier this year, lawmakers passed, and Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed, a bill to decriminalize cannabis in the Granite State. The...

Two initiatives that would amend Detroit's medical marijuana ordinance to allow dispensaries to open near liquor stores, and grow facilities to operate legally, will appear on the November ballot, after a Wayne County circuit judge's ruling earlier this week. If approved by voters in...

Two weeks ago, Phoenix resident Rebecca Masterson took in a kid who desperately needed a home. The 16-year-old boy has no parents and has "anger issues" from a life of neglect, she wrote on her personal blog on September 1. She met him earlier this year after choosing to become a foster parent...

A new Indiana law intended to legalize the use of a cannabis extract to treat epilepsy instead resulted in a massive crackdown on the product across the state, making it more challenging for those with severe medical issues to obtain it. An IndyStar investigation has found that after the law...