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Diana Cordero is one of the few doctors in Duval County who is qualified to prescribe medical marijuana to her patients. But barely one month after the drug was legalized for the treatment of various medical conditions, Cordero said she can't keep up with demand. "We receive at least five...

The regulatory and taxing system that will be needed to govern California’s newly legalized marijuana industry may not be in place by a key deadline next year, imperiling the state’s rush to oversee a booming $7 billion cannabis economy. Multiple state agencies, including the Bureau of Medical...

Bremerton, Wash. - Kitsap County's first marijuana business has been shut down by regulators who alleged the recreational pot grow operation had repeatedly failed to pay its taxes. Agents with the state Liquor and Cannabis Board seized about 2,000 plants and clones from Nine Point Growth...

Tallahassee – A stark divide between the public and Tallahassee bureaucrats was on full display late Thursday as patients, caregivers and doctors hammered state medical marijuana regulators for standing in the way of access to medicine. Several patients told regulators that cannabis has...

For decades, Kelly Anderson has cultivated his family's land on a sprawling farm in Maricopa. He grows ornamental plants, dried wheat and foliage that are sold in craft stores. Demand for the decorative plants is high, but farmers like Anderson are eyeing another, potentially more lucrative...

California voters approved the legalization of recreational marijuana use in November, and now regulators are hard at work devising the new rules and fees to be imposed. There seems to be some considerable doubt, however, as to whether the regulations will be ready to go by next year, when...

Denver ― Colorado's marijuana industry soared to new highs in 2016. According to data released Thursday by the Colorado Department of Revenue, dispensaries in the state sold $1.3 billion in medical and recreational marijuana last year, generating close to $200 million in tax revenue for the...

Never mind heart-rending testimony from the dying, diseased and debilitated, who crowded into five public hearings across Florida this week to beg the state medical marijuana rule-makers to honor the voters' intent. Never mind pleas from would-be cannabis farmers and entrepreneurs, who...

Albany – With New York's medical marijuana industry struggling to get off the ground, one licensed pot grower is looking to tap a new market with a vast supply of possible customers – nursing homes. Etain, one of the five companies licensed by the state Health Department to grow and sell...

Last month, hundreds of Emerald Triangle cannabis farmers received letters from the state threatening penalties unless they complied with California water quality regulations. Thousands of growers in Northern California have complied with these regulations, to be extended statewide by 2018...

West Springfield - The West Springfield Town Council voted Monday to amend the expiration date for the town's moratorium on recreational marijuana facilities to reflect changes in the state's timetable for allowing retail sales of the drug. Over 53 percent of Massachusetts voters approved a...

Sacramento — The California State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has raised some concerns about Lori Ajax, Gov. Jerry Brown's nominee for chief of the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation. Media reports have called Ajax California's first...

Just over two decades ago, California became the first state to legalize and regulate medical marijuana. Since then, the nationwide trend has almost without exception been toward loosening prohibitions on the drug, particularly in light of increasing evidence that supports its therapeutic use in...

Conservative voters are more likely to support legalizing medical marijuana than raising gas taxes, at least ahead of using a $1 billion surplus to pay for transportation projects. Fifty-two percent of Republicans surveyed recently by Tennesseans for Conservative Action say they support...

Since voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada approved recreational marijuana in the November 2016 polls, employers in these states have faced the same question as companies in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington are asking: what to do about drug screening for...

Barry County, Mich. - Many people are hoping to take advantage of the new Michigan law passed last year to set up a framework for the state to legalize, regulate and tax a broader range of the medical cannabis industry. With that comes a lot of confusion, though, especially for those hoping...

The state legislature's Office of Fiscal Analysis believes that Connecticut could bring in up to $104.6 million a year in revenue if marijuana is legalized in the state, based upon estimates of the legalized marijuana business in Colorado and Massachusetts. According to the OFA report, during...

The city of Elk Grove was threatened with a lawsuit pertaining to the City Council's Jan. 25 approval of extending a restriction on marijuana cultivation in the city. This ordinance imposes a moratorium on all commercial marijuana land uses and all marijuana cultivation within the city. This...

Sacramento - Should police officers be able to use a controversial spit test to see if they believe drivers are high? Should billboards advertising pot shops be allowed on state highways? Should marijuana business owners have to drive hundreds of miles with their trunks full of cash to pay...

Honolulu, Hawaii — Bills introduced in the Hawaii legislature would legalize industrial hemp production in the state, setting the stage to nullify federal prohibition of the plant in practice. A coalition of five Democrat senators introduced Senate Bill 163 (SB163) on Jan. 20. The legislation...