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Valdez, Alaska — Alaska's first retail marijuana shop opened its doors last week, despite federal prohibition. According to an AP report, more than 250 people lined up outside Herbal Outfitters in Valdez prior to the noon opening last Saturday. Some came from as far away as Fairbanks, more...

Huron Twp. - Huron Township officials snuffed out the possibility of medical marijuana merchants from legally conducting business in their jurisdiction. During a recent public meeting, all three trustees voted to permanently ban those cultivating, processing, selling and dispensing the...

Huron Twp. - Huron Township officials snuffed out the possibility of medical marijuana merchants from legally conducting business in their jurisdiction. During a recent public meeting, all three trustees voted to permanently ban those cultivating, processing, selling and dispensing the...

Sierra Vista - If examples from Washington and Colorado are any indication, should Arizona voters pass Prop 205 this November and legalize recreational marijuana use for adults, there should be little to no federal interference with state law, even in areas with a high number of federal law...

Fall River - Four companies have the green light from the city to pursue marijuana dispensary licenses. One of those companies has land and the approval of the state to build a facility to grow and process marijuana for medicine. Medical marijuana is legal in Massachusetts. Companies are...

Westbrook, Maine - Cities and towns around Maine are looking to put moratoriums on the sale of marijuana in advance of a vote that could make the substance legal in the state. Maine voters will decide whether to allow legal recreational marijuana use in the state on Nov. 8. At issue are retail...

Few policies have gained more recent momentum than "regulating marijuana like alcohol." From Oregon to Massachusetts, marijuana legalization initiatives across the nation have successfully seized this mantle both in name and substance. Here in California, the sponsors of the recent Medical...

Arkansas Last Friday, the state Supreme Court disqualified one initiative, leaving one remaining. Responding to a late legal challenge, the state Supreme Court last week disqualified one of the two medical marijuana initiatives on the ballot - even though the ballots had already been printing...

Arkansas Last Friday, the state Supreme Court disqualified one initiative, leaving one remaining. Responding to a late legal challenge, the state Supreme Court last week disqualified one of the two medical marijuana initiatives on the ballot - even though the ballots had already been printing...

Sierra Vista - Candidate opinions on legalized marijuana appear to have less to do with party affiliation and more to do with perceptions on whether Proposition 205 is a solution to a problem, or a serious threat to Arizona. The citizens initiative is on the Nov. 8 ballot asking voters...

The Ohio Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee announced the first steps Tuesday in regulating the drug in the buckeye state. The 14-member committee is responsible for crafting the details of the vague medical marijuana law passed by Ohio voters in June. 12 large growers will be licensed...

The Ohio Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee announced the first steps Tuesday in regulating the drug in the buckeye state. The 14-member committee is responsible for crafting the details of the vague medical marijuana law passed by Ohio voters in June. 12 large growers will be licensed...

Logan Bowers, owner of Seattle's #Hashtag pot store, is as adamant about pot legalization as a person can be. Since pot became legal in Washington state in 2014, he's enjoyed the societal - and financial — benefits of legal weed. But he admits feeling a tad conflicted when he sees the growing...

In 2001, Steve DeAngelo agreed to help a friend by attending the delivery of nearly 200 pounds of marijuana in a Maryland trailer park and verifying the quality of the product. In exchange, DeAngelo said he would get 10 pounds of the cannabis that he planned to distribute to medical marijuana...

In 2001, Steve DeAngelo agreed to help a friend by attending the delivery of nearly 200 pounds of marijuana in a Maryland trailer park and verifying the quality of the product. In exchange, DeAngelo said he would get 10 pounds of the cannabis that he planned to distribute to medical marijuana...

A police officer pulls over a woman for speeding and notices the smell of marijuana coming from a portable vaporizer. A man smokes pot in his car, sitting in a movie theater parking lot. She got a warning. He went to jail. Two years after Santa Fe passed an ordinance declaring small...

It's a brave new world for cannabis laws, which will almost certainly shift yet again in the coming weeks as five new states vote on recreational initiatives. Among them is California, the seventh largest economy in the world and home to about 80 percent of all pot grown in the US. If the polls...

Lawmakers in Colorado on Monday asked an anti-marijuana campaign in Arizona to stop airing ads that they say contain false information about their state and could mislead voters who will be deciding on recreational legalization of the drug next week. State Sen. Pat Steadman (D) and...

If you legalize recreational marijuana at the polls Nov. 8, you'll be in for a pretty nice discount at the cash register of your local dispensary starting the very next morning. That, at least, was the gist of a statement circulated this week by state tax official Jerome E. Horton. He says...

Diane Schwenke, the CEO of the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce, said at a meeting at Main Street Bagels this morning that the chamber's board hasn't even discussed or considered the possibility of bringing retail marijuana commerce to Grand Junction as a way to boost the local economy...