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A State of the State address from the governor and the first salvo of medical marijuana-related bills are expected Tuesday morning, day two of the 91st General Assembly. Governor Asa Hutchinson is scheduled to address a joint session of the state House and Senate at 10:30 a.m. Watch the speech...

Concord, N.H. — New Hampshire will have several opportunities to expand its medical marijuana program, as six bills are currently active in the Live Free or Die State this year. If passed, these measures would further nullify the federal prohibition on cannabis in practice. Rep. Eric Schleien...

Avella — More than two months ahead of the deadline for would-be growers and dispensers of medical marijuana to seek permission from state officials, Hopewell has adopted local zoning rules for any such outfits that eventually set up shop in the township. Supervisors amended the local zoning...

The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly is mulling over recommendations from the Borough Marijuana Task Force about what marijuana cultivation and business should look like on the island. At a special work session Thursday night, Borough Manager Michael Powers said staff was seeking guidance on...

It's a scene that continues to unfold in Washington state: A helicopter hovers low over the trees, deep inside a park in the Cascade Mountains; a SWAT team dressed in Kevlar rappels from the chopper to the ground; other officers, federal agents and state environmental officials move toward the...

Willlow – At the far end of Willow, an hour and a half outside of Wasilla, David Straub's 500-square-foot limited marijuana cultivation facility sits on his five-acre lot. The former dog musher and carpenter from Kansas moved to Alaska in 1997 to follow a dream to run in the Iditarod, and has...

Andrew Freedman is moving on from his position as Colorado's Director of Marijuana Coordination, Governor John Hickenlooper announced on January 5. Freedman will still be involved with the cannabis industry and constructing policy: He's launching a consulting firm, Freedman & Koski LLC, which...

It's been a year since medical marijuana hit the shelves in New York State. Under the tight regulations of the Compassionate Care Act, people with certain chronic conditions can buy pot in the form of liquids and capsules. State health officials are slowly expanding the program. Chronic pain...

Local legislators were sworn in for another two-year term Wednesday and said they face what could be a difficult session dealing with contentious issues. Refining a law passed by voters that legalized recreational use of marijuana will be high on the to-do list, the lawmakers said. Dealing...

Atlanta - The Macon lawmaker who sponsored Georgia's medical cannabis registry law now wants a statewide vote on growing cannabis plants in the state. State Rep. Allen Peake said he is going to ask fellow lawmakers for a 2018 referendum that would allow growing cannabis for medicinal...

Arkansas and Florida start moving toward voter-approved medical marijuana systems, Massachusetts activists push for greater patient access, and more. Arkansas Last Friday, a lawmaker filed medical marijuana implementation bills. State Rep. Douglas House (R-North Little Rock) has filed a...

Too often in recent years, Heather Skorinko has struggled to make money growing corn and soybeans on her North Whitehall Township farm, which has been in the family for more than 120 years. She has especially grown weary of the uncertainty sown by ever-fluctuating prices. Corn farmers have seen...

A California company wants to build a cannabis growing and processing operation in Bartonsville. Consultants representing CannaMed of Thousand Oaks, California has asked the Pocono Township Board of Supervisors to clarify its zoning definitions to allow it to grow medical marijuana. The...

Salem – Local activist Gary "Gigi" Gill was among those from Salem who headed to Boston Tuesday for a rally to advocate for improved access to medical marijuana, as the state Department of Public Health mulls changes to regulations governing its medical pot use program. The proposed...

California hopes to take the lead in giving the cannabis industry access to banking services in 2017, with a new working group focused on finding a solution to ongoing conflicts between state and federal laws that force marijuana businesses to operate largely in cash. The Golden State has a...

It was payday at local cannabis manufacturer CannaCraft when Santa Rosa police raided in July. At the time, the business was out of compliance with city codes. Police confiscated about $500,000 in cash, divided into stuffed envelopes ready for the company to pay its workers. On Friday, State...

TAKE A CHILL PILL, pot lovers. It's reasonable for the state to push back on a timetable dictated by the marijuana industry and its anything-but-mellow effort to begin making millions off of Massachusetts weed. As of Dec. 15, marijuana was legal to possess in Massachusetts but illegal to...

The outcome of the marijuana legalization movement over the past 12 months will undoubtedly go down in history as the time when prohibition was given its terminal diagnosis and the reality of nationwide reform illuminated on the horizon of a brand New Year. As of now, over half the nation has...

From January 1, Nevada became the seventh U.S. state to decriminalize the usage of cannabis, after Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, California, Massachusetts, and Washington D.C. In the Election Day back in November, Nevadans approved by a nine percent margin the legalization of marijuana...

Voters in eight states passed marijuana legalization laws following the 2016 presidential election, giving pot legalization the required momentum for more states across the country to carry out discussions on the decriminalization of cannabis in 2017. Here are the states that may legalize...