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Pine Creek Township, Clinton County - Part of an old modular home plant could soon be the home of a medical marijuana processing facility. A Colorado businessman is hoping the state approves his application next year which would be the first of its kind in our area. It's in its...

Once packed with marijuana concentrates and extracts, the Human Collective's shelves are nearly empty. Some pot leaf-patterned socks and glass pipes sit scattered among what's left. A static screen with just 13 flower options has replaced a digital "bud list" that used to scroll through the...

Since voters there legalized recreational marijuana in 2014, officials in Alaska have been hashing out logistical issues, including how to transport marijuana to communities across the state without violating federal law, since there are few roads and it's against federal law to move marijuana...

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...

The elections are over and the legislative season is yet to begin, so things are pretty quiet on the medical marijuana front. Still, here are a couple of tidbits. Maryland On Monday, the state moved to improve diversity in the medical marijuana industry. The state Cannabis Commission...

The debate over whether Georgia will become a safer space for marijuana, in medicinal or any other form, is poised to pick up speed next year. But only if the incoming Donald Trump administration doesn't shut it down. And with the nomination of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama as the...

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...

Salem, N.H. - Fireworks, tax-free liquors and big-ticket items — New Hampshire residents are used to seeing folks come north looking to take advantage of the Granite State's looser regulations. That phenomenon may get flipped on its head Dec. 15, when the possession, use and growing of...

Tera Ollila was smiling when she became one of the first people to legally buy marijuana in Juneau. When it came time to talk to a reporter, her smile faded. "Do you have to use my name?" she asked before granting permission. Ollila, like some of those waiting in line Wednesday and...

Augusta, Maine - The Maine Secretary of State's Office has scheduled the recounts for Questions 1 and 2. The recount for Question 2, which creates a 3 percent income tax on people earning more than $200,000 to fund public education, begins Thursday morning. Voters approved the measure by...

When Irvin Rosenfeld runs low on his monthly allotment of federal government marijuana, the Lauderhill stock broker drives south for about an hour to Miami's health district, the only location where he can legally pick up a circular tin packed with 300 joints. It's inconvenient: The pot he...

More than half of the United States allow marijuana use of some kind after voters in eight states passed legalization laws following the 2016 presidential election. Since then, cannabis advocates in other states have been pushing even harder for marijuana reform, and some states have already...

Four Ohio communities passed measures Nov. 8 to eliminate fines and jail time for possessing small amounts of marijuana, but some local officials warn that little will change. A decriminalization initiative in Newark, which passed with 53 percent of the vote, removes penalties for possessing...

Newark - Four Ohio communities passed measures on Election Day to eliminate fines and jail time for possessing small amounts of marijuana, but some local officials warn that little will change. A decriminalization initiative in Newark, which passed with 53 percent of the vote, removes penalties...

Albany - By the end of the month, New York nurse practitioners will be able to certify patients for medical-marijuana prescriptions, the state Department of Health announced Tuesday. Under the amendment, which goes into effect on Nov. 30, state-registered nurse practitioners will be able to...

East Peoria - A medical-marijuana dispensary is to open early next month in East Peoria. The NuMed dispensary is to occupy space the Fashion Bug women's clothing store once filled at 504 Riverside Drive. It's in a strip mall located next to the Texas Roadhouse restaurant. The opening is...

Medical marijuana may become easier to obtain after nurse practitioners are allowed to certify patients for the drug starting Wednesday. The state Department of Health announced that change this week as a way to improve patient access to medical cannabis therapies. That change and others have...

Des Moines, Iowa - Could Iowa soon see a new cash crop, among our fields of corn and soybeans? The big topic at the State Capitol Monday was hemp. Three of the six members of the Hemp Program Study Committee are farmers, and they seemed receptive for the most part. "Hemp can make paper...

The dust is officially settling on a heartbreaking win for hatred and bigotry in the United States, and the nation as well as the world are starting to come to terms with what our future now holds. But while the presidential and congressional elections yielded terrifying results, there were some...

The news that Senator Jeff Sessions will be the new Attorney General made pot proponents very unhappy. Is it time to panic? Here's an opinion from attorney Tom Downey, former head of the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, who's watching developments in D.C. closely: What will happen to...