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The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission has not yet received applications for pot-growing and cultivation facilities as of Wednesday (Aug. 30), and there have only been two submissions to locate a cannabis dispensary within the state less than three weeks before the state's...

State Sen. Jennifer Flanagan will be a shining star as the governor's appointee to the new Cannabis Control Commission beginning Friday, Sept. 1, as it was announced on Wednesday, Aug. 23. Flanagan resigned her seat in the Senate Thursday, Aug. 31 to take the new position after serving in the...

North Carolina State University Extension researchers harvested seed from their industrial hemp test plots on Friday — and were pleased with the results. Cultivating industrial hemp in North Carolina became legal in late 2015; however planting didn't commence immediately. The supporting law...

A pudgy man in a white lab coat, protective goggles, and a white hardhat ambles down several long rows of potted marijuana plants. An industrial A/C unit cranks frigid air into the capacious grow room, located inside a 300,000-square-foot warehouse just outside Tallahassee, while an array of...

As more states pass laws legalizing marijuana usage, a national summit on marijuana is convening in Denver today. The three-day National Cannabis Summit begins Monday at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Denver, featuring presentations by state and local governments, advocacy groups, and medical...

For a group of medical cannabis advocates, Saturday was about educating the public so they could, in turn, educate their state lawmakers. At the Indiana Medical Cannabis Town Hall Meeting, lawmakers, professors, veterans and other medical marijuana advocates came together at the Indiana...

A medical cannabis dispensary may be coming to Mulberry next year. Mulberry Mayor Gary Baxter said the city was approached by a company called Natural State Healthcare after the beginning of 2017, following the 2016 general election, during which Arkansas voters approved Issue 6 on the...

The federal government is asking the state of Massachusetts to turn over information on the 40,000 patients who were prescribed medical marijuana. The request coming from the White House's National Marijuana initiative has Governor Charlie Baker concerned. Some of the data requested is...

State lawmakers have announced they will research if Tennessee should legalize marijuana. Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally and State House Speaker Beth Harwell wrote a letter announcing their decision to form an ad-hoc committee to look into the issue. The committee will study, evaluate...

Oneida County will be getting a new Dutch-style greenhouse for growing medical marijuana. MedMen, the medical marijuana company that started manufacturing products in Utica in January, now has an indoor growing operation at the site of the Brightwaters Farm greenhouses in North Utica, said...

Marijuana-related businesses face a funny problem: they make lots of money yet can't securely put it in banks. The US banking system is nationally regulated and weed's illegal under federal law, a Schedule I substance with no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse, according to the...

Neighbors offended by the smell coming from a Two Rivers pot farm have gone to the state and the borough looking for relief. They have found none. The business is Herbal Instincts, an outdoor marijuana growing operation on Ream Lane, about 15 miles down Chena Hot Spring Road. The pot farm...

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) and Attorney General Cynthia Coffman (R) mounted a vigorous defense of their state's legalized and regulated marijuana program Thursday, replying to a critical letter from Attorney General Jeff Sessions that was directed at states that have legalized marijuana...

Oregon's governor and the head of the state police defended the state's legal marijuana industry in letters to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has been hinting at a crackdown on states such as Oregon that have legalized pot in defiance of federal law. Gov. Kate Brown noted Tuesday in...

Officials in Washington state think U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has it all wrong when it comes to the state's legal marijuana market. Last week, Gov. Jay Inslee and State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, both Democrats, fired off a letter saying Sessions recently made "a number of...

California has a long history as the Golden State and as the "Green State" because its marijuana history spans over a century, all the way back to the Poison Act of 1907. The Poison and Pharmacy Act of 1907 banned the sale of opium, cocaine, and morphine without a prescription. In 1913, an...

A Democratic state senator who opposed the ballot question that legalized recreational marijuana was named Wednesday by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker to the regulatory board that will oversee the cannabis industry in Massachusetts. Sen. Jennifer Flanagan, of Leominster, is the first appointee...

Governor Charlie Baker has appointed state Senator Jen Flanagan, a Leominster Democrat who opposed the legalization of marijuana, to the new state commission that will oversee the commercial pot industry in Massachusetts. The Cannabis Control Commission, or CCC, will approve and regulate pot...

A Franklin Circuit Court judge on Tuesday asked attorneys for the state why Kentucky should not make medical marijuana available to patients who believe it might help them, given that "we've pretty much decriminalized" the drug around much of the nation and even in parts of the state. Judge...

Every week's there's a new story about how well recreational marijuana legalization has helped states such as Colorado, Washington and Oregon. And now several other states, such as California, Nevada and Massachusetts, have jumped on the train to reap the benefits of legalization. As the trend...