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The Senate's majority leader last week requested that a state criminal justice agency examine Virginia's marijuana laws in light of recent national developments - and then weigh in on what kinds of changes might make sense. Sen. Thomas K. "Tommy" Norment Jr., R-James City, made headlines last...

Los Angeles - California's legal marijuana industry is expected to involve everything from backyard growers to sprawling fields in the farm belt, storefront sellers along rural roads to chain-store like outlets in Los Angeles. State tax collectors are taking initial steps to get a hand into...

Tallahassee - Medical marijuana's implementation is turning out to be a slow burn. More than 6 million Floridians voted in November to allow patients with conditions like cancer and HIV to use marijuana - nearly 2 million more than President-elect Donald Trump's state total. But such...

The nascent recreational marijuana industry in Massachusetts will, one day, bring in revenue to cover the state's costs of regulating and licensing pot shops. But first, the state will have to set up a brand new regulatory framework. Where the money will come from to set up that framework -...

Claiming the state is hoarding funds, two medical marijuana users want a judge to reduce the annual charge for the legally required registration cards. In legal papers filed here, the attorney for Yolanda Daniels and Lisa Becker points out the Department of Health Services collected $2.6...

Many medical marijuana patients were worried that a ballot measure legalizing cannabis for recreational use in California would make the price of their medicine go up. Instead, for some of them, pot just got cheaper, though maybe not for long. The Board of Equalization recently sent notice...

Four states, including California, the nation's most populous, voted to legalize marijuana on November 8. That doubles the number of legal states to eight (plus the District of Columbia), and more than quadruples the number of people living in legal marijuana states, bringing the number to...

Walk into any licensed cannabis grow op in Colorado and one of the first things you'll notice are the barcodes. Every plant has a brightly colored tag - blue for recreational and yellow for medicinal - zip-tied to its stalk or planted in its soil, and each tag bears a bar code and a Radio...

Coffee lovers will soon be able to combine their cuppa joe with Mary Jane for an extra morning buzz. San Diego company Brewbudz plans to debut single-serving coffee pods that also hold cannabis. Each cup will contain 10 milligrams of the marijuana chemical THC for recreational users and up to...

With marijuana and its medical version becoming big business in Colorado and other states, the organizer of today's Capital Conference in downtown Lansing said more than 300 profit-minded Michiganders were registered to learn how they might someday turn the drug into dollars. In the banquet...

Augusta, Maine - A recount of a public referendum that legalized recreational marijuana use in Maine got underway Monday. Staffers from the Secretary of State's Office and both campaigns huddled around tables to scrutinize the ballots, beginning with the ones from Maine's largest cities...

Boston - More than 1.7 million Massachusetts voters approved a ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana. But now state lawmakers may be putting the brakes on the plan. Legislative leaders on Beacon Hill have made no secret that they have concerns about how pot would be legalized...

Portland, Ore. - "I wish we would have taken some of the steps your state has taken; we'd be so much further along," Oregon State Sen. Ginny Burdick said to a group of Nevada lawmakers and business owners during a recent fact-finding tour of Portland's recreational marijuana industry. "Nevada...

North Dakota & Minnesota - There are more questions after Minnesota's Commissioner of Health Dr. Ed Ehlinger announced on December 1st that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is now a new qualifying condition for the state's medical cannabis program. Some of those questions are coming from...

Haverhill - On the issue of legalizing marijuana, the people of Massachusetts have spoken. Now comes the challenge for local officials - regulating a new industry and dealing with a new law which takes effect Dec. 15, even though pot shops will not be allowed to open until 2018. Just as it...

Voters across the country passed a drug policy milestone in November by approving medical marijuana in three new states, making the drug legal in most of the U.S. for medical purposes. Now, some patients are urging state legislators to give them access to the drug in Missouri. "Kids with...

Phoenix - Claiming the state is hoarding funds, two medical marijuana users want a judge to reduce the annual charge for the legally required registration cards. In legal papers filed here, the attorney for Yolanda Daniels and Lisa Becker points out the Department of Health Services collected...

The smoke hasn't yet cleared, and some municipal officials in the region aren't too happy with that regulatory haziness. With weeks before marijuana use becomes legal in Massachusetts, municipal officials in a number of surrounding communities find themselves scrambling to enact local...

Two Newark attorneys say it's inconsistent for New Jersey to have a medical marijuana program and still classify the drug among the most dangerous. NJ.com reports a three-judge state appeals panel in Trenton agreed to release an opinion on the matter after hearing arguments from Joseph...

City officials may ask the state to relax restrictions on how close medical marijuana dispensaries can be to schools and day-care facilities, saying current rules would limit access in Philadelphia. "Our density of schools and day cares is already so high, it would be making locations very...