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It may be a few weeks later than they planned, but Massachusetts lawmakers appear to have agreed on legislation to implement changes to the voter-approved law legalizing marijuana in the state. The so-called compromise bill was introduced in the state House of Representatives on the Monday...

After the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday in favor of an employee fired after testing positive for marijuana, some legal experts are shocked. "I can't stress this enough, it's the first case of its kind in the country," said Dale Deitchler, a shareholder at world's largest...

More than two weeks after blowing their self-imposed deadline to create a marijuana bill, state representatives and senators reached a compromise that would tax pot by as much as 20 percent. A committee of three state reps and three state senators had been working to merge House and Senate...

Jesse Forbes, a Charleston attorney appointed to the newly created Medical Cannabis Advisory Board, said he’s looking forward to getting started. Forbes has represented people and businesses statewide and has experience in criminal and administrative law. He served for years as a mental hygiene...

A campaign to once again try to fully legalize marijuana in Michigan is getting big support from a Washington D.C. nonprofit activist group and from a tobacco store company that has talked of opening a chain of marijuana shops in the state. The donor list, revealed in the latest campaign...

Hawaii's first medical marijuana dispensaries were allowed to open exactly one year ago today, but the industry has still not been able to get off the ground. Of the state's eight licensed marijuana growers, six have received state approval to begin growing and at least three have marijuana...

Fox News reported that Nevada's Governor had declared a state of emergency over marijuana shortages, except that it wasn't quite right. The Governor actually issued a "statement of emergency" regarding the regulations on distributors for the program. Here's what's really happening: Nevada's...

If you live in a state that hasn't yet legalized medical marijuana, you're in the minority among Americans. Twenty-nine states plus the District of Columbia allow use of medical marijuana, with many of the most populous states included in that list. On the other hand, if you live in a state...

Nevada's fast-developing experiment with legal sales of recreational marijuana was an instant hit, and the Fourth of July weekend gave the Silver State a taste of the green rush. In the first few days of sales, dispensaries reported more than 40,000 recreational transactions, a push that...

With a July 1 deadline drifting like a haze of smoke past State House pols, community leaders awaiting guidance on the state's recreational pot laws find themselves unwittingly trapped in their own legislative limbo. Just before Middlesex East went to press this week, a half-dozen lawmakers...

Legal marijuana is big business in Colorado. May marked the 12th consecutive month weed sales exceeded $100 million. Colorado outlet The Cannabist has calculated that the state sold $127 million worth of marijuana products in May 2017 alone, the 12 month in a row sales have topped the $100...

After nearly two weeks of Nevada dispensaries selling recreational marijuana without a way to restock their shelves, the pot will soon start flowing around the state again. The Nevada Department of Taxation unanimously approved emergency measures on Thursday to expand who's allowed to move...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Wednesday signed legislation and announced new actions to support the emerging industrial hemp industry and boost the agricultural economy in New York State. This legislation solidifies the status of industrial hemp as an agricultural commodity under New York...

Tourism officials in Nevada are exploring how legal cannabis could attract visitors to the Silver State. In an email, the Nevada Division of Tourism said the topic of cannabis is set to be included in its upcoming marketing research. Nevada recently became the fifth state to permit...

The New York City subway–and lots of other important stuff people rely on across the country–is in a state of brutal disrepair. Legalizing weed could help. Like so many of the trains on America's largest subway system lately, Donald Trump's infrastructure plan is mired in delays. In May...

North Carolina is officially in the industrial hemp business, at least the business of developing the best ways to grow it. The N.C. State Extension Service just planted some of the crop at its Mountain Research Station in Waynesville. It's an educational effort where the teachers are doing...

Gov. Matt Bevin and Attorney General Andy Beshear want a Frankfort judge to dismiss a lawsuit calling for the legalization of medical marijuana in Kentucky. In a motion filed Monday in Franklin Circuit Court, Bevin's attorneys said medical marijuana is a "political question" that should be...

Nevada started selling cannabis for adult use just a couple of weeks ago and dispensaries are already running low on (or even out of) product. Almost every major media outlet in the U.S. has reported on this event, explaining the shortage is caused by distribution problems and inefficiencies...

As Ohio's fledgling medical marijuana program ramps up, patients, business owners and advocates still have one major concern -- who will test the marijuana? All medical marijuana products must be tested for safety and potency before sale, per state law. But for the first year, testing lab...

Rules have been proposed for regulating the cultivation, processing, testing, and sale of medical marijuana in the city of Toledo. During a hearing Thursday in Government Center, the Toledo Plan Commission will take up proposed regulations drafted by its staff for medical-marijuana businesses...