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Dispensaries in Nevada are facing a pot shortage and lost sales could result in less funding for the state’s schoolchildren. Recreational pot is taxed at 33% to 38%, depending on local regulations. A 10% sales tax goes to the Nevada's rainy day fund, but a 15% cultivation tax on cannabis sales...

Troy Smith brought a Heisman Trophy to Ohio, and a little over a decade later, he is hoping to bring the state medical marijuana, too. The former Ohio State star quarterback, along with former Browns player Eric Metcalf and high school football coach Ted Ginn Sr., are trying to bring a weed...

The United States has seen a sharp increase in many states for the legalization of marijuana for both medicinal and recreational use. The laws differ from state to state and this month the state of Georgia expanded its list of conditions that can be treated with what is known as low-THC oil...

In the fall of 2015, a woman named "Sage" – an alias she requested to protect her privacy – and another person were driving down Interstate 80. The duo was travelling east from Oregon: one of the eight states in the U.S. where recreational marijuana is legal. Autumn in the northwest U.S. is...

Medicinal marijuana dispensaries will be banned from Collier County until at least the end of the year. Commissioners voted, 4-1, Tuesday afternoon to keep the dispensaries from opening here until the county has a chance to lobby state lawmakers for more control over the number of...

About 1,000 marijuana plants were found growing in the Tuscarora State Forest in Mifflin County last month, according to a report from the Public Opinion in Chambersburg. "Bureau of Forestry officials believe the pot growing operation is the largest ever uncovered in a Pennsylvania state...

Are Nevada officials actually trying to preserve the state's marijuana black market? In the first four days that Nevada residents could legally purchase marijuana for recreational uses, state retailers made $3 million in sales—and lined the state government's coffers to the tune of a cool...

Nevada officials may have underestimated the high level of anticipation for the state’s new recreational marijuana law, because in its second weekend after launching the adult-only program, Nevada nearly ran out of pot. The shortage isn’t all that surprising, though, because other states have...

Since medical marijuana has been legalized in Pennsylvania, several businesses have received permits for dispensaries. But that doesn't mean the drug will be dispensed any time soon. The state is still hammering out regulations governing which doctors will dispense marijuana and which...

A push to solve the state's fiscal crisis by legalizing marijuana will continue in January when lawmakers return to Springfield for a new session, one of the lawmakers behind the effort said. Two bills authored by state Sen. Heather Steans and state Rep. Kelly Cassidy, both from Edgewater...

Less than two weeks after sales of recreational marijuana kicked off in Nevada, stores are running out of pot to sell, according to the state Department of Taxation. On July 7, Governor Brian Sandoval endorsed the department's call for a "statement of emergency," which would allow more...

After hours of debate, Lebanon city council is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to declare a moratorium on medical marijuana cultivation, processing or distribution within city limits. The Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program recently revealed basic information about more than 180...

Setting aside prejudice and stereotypes, it makes economic sense to legalize recreational marijuana in Iowa. Given that Iowa is currently in the midst of a bit of a budgetary quandary, it would make sense to try to raise more funds by taxing the sale of marijuana instead of raising other taxes...

The city's zoning commission gave its approval on Friday to two groups intending to cultivate medical marijuana in the city of Akron after city council earlier gave its approval to five others. The State of Ohio has accepted more than 180 applications from across the state from people who want...

House Bill 230, introduced in the Wyoming State Legislature in January and passed into law without Governor Matt Mead's signature earlier this year, could offer Wyoming the chance to grow industrial hemp for research purposes, joining 20 others states in the development of what was once a...

One by one, states across the nation have been passing new marijuana laws in recent years. Currently, 29 states in the U.S. allow the use of medical marijuana. By November 2018, Oklahoma could be the 30th. State Question 788, the Medical Marijuana Legalization Initiative, will be on the ballot...

Once shunned by business people and outlawed by public officials, the marijuana industry is fast gaining respectability — and investors. At a gathering of marijuana supporters scheduled for Sunday in Detroit, there will be no rappers, no “medicating tent,” no vendors pitching ornate hash pipes...

Minnesotans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder will be eligible to try medical cannabis starting Aug. 1. To receive the drug through the program, patients need to visit a health care professional who must then certify to the Minnesota Department of Health that the patients suffer...

Massachusetts still doesn't have a state budget for fiscal year 2018 or the rewrite of marijuana laws that lawmakers pledged to get to Gov. Charlie Baker's desk by the end of June. A temporary state budget is in place, set to last through the month of July, as lawmakers continue to work...

It has happened: Last Tuesday, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the bill that regulates legal cannabis in the state. Known as the Medicinal and Adult Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), the bill consolidates the two laws that regulated legal cannabis to create one set of rules...