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For the seventh consecutive year, lawmakers will introduce a bill that would allow adults to consume marijuana recreationally. But advocates are hopeful that the proposal might finally get a vote this time, in part because of the wins weed had in the 2016 election–some right in Rhode Island's...

Denver - Colorado, a pioneer in marijuana legalization, has more work to do on pot. That's the word from Gov. John Hickenlooper, who told lawmakers Thursday that loopholes in home grow and caregiver laws have allowed illegal pot grows to flourish. Hickenlooper said in his annual state of...

YES John F. Keenan State senator, Quincy Democrat With the passage of Question 4, on Dec. 15 it became legal in Massachusetts to possess marijuana for recreational use. However, last month the Legislature and the governor passed legislation that delays some parts of the marijuana law by six...

Rhode Island State Senator Joshua Miller and State Representative Scott Slater will be introducing legislation to regulate and tax marijuana in the General Assembly this year. The legislation is similar to that approved by Massachusetts voter in November. Speaking at a press conference...

Hello Everyone, New to the marijuana growing with the new laws up here in Washington State. Going to take some time to get thru all the information provided on this forum. Thanks Dennis

There are many uses for industrial hemp: Horse bedding, particle board, even the fabric on car-door interiors. The list runs long. So says Patrique Veille, a co-owner of American Hemp LLC in Winston-Salem. In the industrial-hemp business for years, Veille has long relied on imports. But by...

Albnay, N.Y. – Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he wants to promote industrial hemp production in New York. The governor in one of his State of the State addresses Wednesday proposed expanding a pilot program that allows farmers to grow hemp in conjunction with state agricultural officials. Cuomo also...

New York should eliminate penalties currently handed down to individuals caught possessing small amounts of marijuana, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday, citing a “dramatic shift in public opinion” evidenced by pot prohibitions being reined in from coast to coast. The governor’s recommendation...

The legalization of recreational marijuana in MA is causing some Rhode Island lawmakers to try to catch up to their neighbor and possibly race ahead. Even more approve of the idea of legalizing marijuana for medical use, a step that 28 states have taken. According to a statement from...

Portland, Maine - The potential statewide moratorium proposed Wednesday would force people who want to open cannabis-based businesses to wait until that period is over before setting up shop. Medical cannabis caregivers said Wednesday that this could have serious business impacts on the state...

Belle Vernon — Rostraver Township has given its approval to a Bethel Park woman's plans to open a medical marijuana growing and processing plant in the Mon Valley municipality. The township's zoning hearing board Wednesday granted an exemption to the local ordinance giving Corinne Ogrodnik...

Senate President Mike Thibodeau, R-Winterport, and House Speaker Sara Gideon, D-Freeport, agreed Wednesday to back an emergency moratorium bill on legalizing marijuana, setting the stage for a battle between pro-marijuana forces and those who believe the state needs more time to craft rules and...

Albany - Gov. Andrew Cuomo is making another pitch for the state to decriminalize possession of some marijuana. Cuomo quietly included the proposal in a 380-page State of the State message that he provided late Wednesday to the State Legislature. "The illegal sale of marijuana cannot and...

Marshall, Ill. – More communities in Illinois are adopting their own penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana now that the state has eliminated the possibility of jail time. The law passed last year says people caught with 10 grams or less of the drug will be issued citations...

A pair of lawmakers want to make Rhode Island the ninth U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana and the first to do so through the legislature rather than with a ballot initiative, they said on Tuesday. State Senator Joshua Miller and state Representative Scott Slater, both Democrats...

More than 1,300 people in the state of Georgia have been registered as medical cannabis patients since the first medical marijuana registration card was issued in July 2015, state officials said on Tuesday. According to state officials, almost half of the patients were listed as having a...

Bloomfield Industries, one of the five companies licensed to sell medical marijuana in New York, is being acquired by MedMen, a California-based marijuana management and consulting firm. The change in ownership comes just two days after New York State's medical marijuana program marked its...

Hartford, Conn. – Connecticut's five-year-old medical marijuana law may soon be expanded to cover more illnesses and conditions. Members of the public are invited to testify to a panel of eight physician specialists Wednesday. Approximately 3,500 patients, adults and children, in New Haven...

Marijuana legalization is expected to be the mostly widely discussed issue of the 85th Texas Legislature, with a plethora of bills pertaining to the subject already waiting to be heard in the coming months. This is not surprising, especially considering the way the state's legislative forces...

At 11 a.m., a panel on "seed to sale." After lunch, a review of medical marijuana's progress in Louisiana. LSU Health closed 2016 with a seminar ("Cannabis and its medicinal potential") in New Orleans, with panels not only for doctors and pharmacists but a new crop of prospective drug dealers...