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Two Wyoming representatives are sponsoring legislation that would make it legal for a person with a prescription or medical marijuana card from another state to possess marijuana in Wyoming. House Bill 247 is sponsored by Rep. James Byrd (D-Cheyenne) and Rep. Charles Pelkey (D-Laramie). The...

Phoenix – State lawmakers are moving to keep medical marijuana dispensaries in the rural areas of the state. On a 5-4 vote Monday, the House Committee on Military, Veterans and Regulatory Affairs approved legislation which says that those who were the first to open marijuana stores following...

It looks like the great American populous needs more legal marijuana in their lives as the East Coast is seeing more states are looking for recreational. Fortunately for those folks, there are now eight states that have legalized the leaf for recreational purposes, giving adults the freedom to...

Richmond, Va. - Inching toward marijuana law reform in Virginia: a state Senate Committee on Monday approved a bill that would get rid of an existing law, and the same panel also ordered up a study on the possibility of decriminalization. Senate Bill 1091 revises the existing provision in...

Morrisville, N.Y. Hemp may not be what you'd think of as the next big cash crop but plenty in New York, including Governor Andrew Cuomo, think it can be for this state. Cuomo is making it one of his signature proposals for the state in 2017 and wants to amend regulations and legislation...

Green Bay, Wis. Two Wisconsin lawmakers are working on a new proposal that would legalize medical marijuana in the state, and one cancer survivor told Local 5 how it helped him when he was going through treatment. Mark Kelderman of Brownsville survived stage three throat and neck cancer...

Morrisville Borough - The borough has joined the list of other municipalities which are discussing the possibility that medical marijuana dispensaries could set up shop in their communities now that Pennsylvania has passed a law allowing such facilities. The state Department of Health is...

The state is expecting to receive only $1 million in revenue from the medical marijuana excise tax this year, far less than what the Cuomo administration believed would come in when it proposed its budget one year ago. At the time, the administration budgeted $4 million in revenue, which...

Trenton – Republican Gov. Chris Christie's warning to the Democrat-led Legislature not to move forward with legalizing marijuana is going mostly unheeded. Christie, a longtime opponent of legalizing the recreational use of the drug, cautioned lawmakers in an impassioned State of the State...

Gov. Brian Sandoval is proposing a 10 percent excise tax on retail marijuana sales once the recreational industry gets moving in Nevada. Sandoval made the announcement during his State of the State address on Tuesday in Carson City. The proposed tax would raise $69 million, which would...

Snohomish – The state-licensed owners of a retail marijuana shop at Second Street and Avenue D would like to open the store, even as there's a citywide marijuana ban the city will uphold. The store's owners say they have state credentials to open. However, while they have a state license...

Madison, WI - State Senate Democrats are proposing action on medical marijuana in Wisconsin. A bill to allow use of medical marijuana, as well as a non-binding statewide referendum. Both from Senators Lena Taylor of Milwaukee and Jon Erpenbach of Middleton. Erpenbach said he's hopeful that at...

California's new marijuana laws don't take effect until 2018, but a big-money race to help the state regulate the industry is already in progress. Even though California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana and is the largest legal marijuana market in the country, it has not yet...

Sacramento — Today, Senators Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), in collaboration with Board of Equalization Chair Fiona Ma (who is sponsoring the bill), will introduce legislation — the Cannabis Safe Payment Act — to make it safer and simpler for cannabis business...

Austin - Multiple bills pushing for legal marijuana are sitting before our state legislature in Austin. And marijuana reform activists are rallying their supporter to help change the law. Two groups from Waco are asking for supporters of marijuana reform to pressure their legislators to vote...

Atlanta – More than 1,300 people have been registered as medical cannabis patients in Georgia, state officials said last week. That patient number has grown since the first Georgia medical marijuana registration card was issued in July 2015. Sheila Pierce of the Department of Public Health...

Legislators in more than a dozen states have introduced measures to loosen laws restricting access to or criminalizing marijuana, a rush of legislative activity that supporters hope reflects a newfound willingness by public officials to embrace a trend toward legalization. The gamut covered...

Lawmakers in Pierre are wrapping up their first week of work in the 2017 legislative session and already a number of bills have advanced closer to the Governor's desk. But one issue not being debated inside the state capitol at this time is Medical Marijuana. A group of supporters is working...

Hartford, CT - Friday was the deadline for lawmakers to submit bills for this year's legislative session. There are hundreds of them. The focus this session will be on ways to save money and create revenue as the state faces a deficit of well over a billion dollars. The state needs to cut its...

Manatee - Ever since he was 17, Micheal Shea has been addicted to learning about cannabis. He has spent the last few years networking and learning everything he can. "Cannabis is my passion," the 22-year-old Manatee County resident said. Now the Braden River High School graduate is turning...