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Oklahoma City — Supporters of a proposal to legalize use of marijuana for medical purposes got some good news this week, clearing the way for an eventual vote on the statutory ballot initiative. As a ten-day period for challenges to petition signatures ended, no hurdles remained to clear the...

Vague language and other flaws doomed the medical marijuana amendment put before voters in 2014, though that proposal only lost by a slim margin, garnering 58 percent of the ballots. Amendment 2 returns on the November ballot much improved. United We Care, the grassroots organization behind...

Johnstown, Ohio - Now that Ohio has legalized medical marijuana, dozens of businesses are lining up to cash in. Andy Joseph's Apeks Supercritical is one of them. The Licking County company, which sells fully automated machines that extract oils from plants - including from cannabis - gets a...

Johnstown, Ohio - Now that Ohio has legalized medical marijuana, dozens of businesses are lining up to cash in. Andy Joseph's Apeks Supercritical is one of them. The Licking County company, which sells fully automated machines that extract oils from plants - including from cannabis - gets a...

Petersburg voters on Tuesday will be deciding whether to allow commercial marijuana sales and importing pot into the borough for sale. Supporters of prohibition don't want the new industry or increased drug use in the borough, while opponents say pot sales should be done out in the open...

State Rep. William Lamberth balks at the notion Memphis and Nashville are softening the punishment for simple pot possession. Lamberth, a Republican and former assistant district attorney from Cottontown in Sumner County, is ready to punish the cities, too, by passing legislation in 2017 to...

Jake Bergmann is Atlanta's go-to guy on cannabis investments even though it's only barely legal there. In 2015, Georgia parents won a hard-fought battle to get extracted high-CBD medicines to epileptic children in the state, but most still don't have safe access. Although it is now legal for...

When I left Las Vegas for Seattle in 1998, getting caught with weed in Nevada was a serious offense. Nearly 20 years later, Las Vegas is heading toward widespread legalization, so I want to congratulate you for taking the necessary steps to ensure your personal freedoms. But I also caution you...

The Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building, home of rock-ribbed American ideals of law, order and country, played host to a most curious road show last week. Officials from California's Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation (BMCR) and Office of Medical Cannabis Safety (OMCS) convened the third...

The Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building, home of rock-ribbed American ideals of law, order and country, played host to a most curious road show last week. Officials from California's Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation (BMCR) and Office of Medical Cannabis Safety (OMCS) convened the third...

Vermilion - Vermilion city council members seemed pretty blunt about temporarily outlawing medical marijuana in their hometown. During a recent meeting, elected officials voted to ban those cultivating, processing, selling and dispensing the substance inside Vermilion's boundaries for a...

Vermilion - Vermilion city council members seemed pretty blunt about temporarily outlawing medical marijuana in their hometown. During a recent meeting, elected officials voted to ban those cultivating, processing, selling and dispensing the substance inside Vermilion's boundaries for a...

Dover - Kent County will get a medical marijuana dispensary soon, but the location remains undisclosed. State officials said last week a contract had been awarded to Columbia Care for two facilities to open in the second half of 2017. One will be in Kent County. The dispensary will be the...

Dover - Kent County will get a medical marijuana dispensary soon, but the location remains undisclosed. State officials said last week a contract had been awarded to Columbia Care for two facilities to open in the second half of 2017. One will be in Kent County. The dispensary will be the...

We know where marijuana law and access in Michigan is going in the short term. Two recent legal developments have laid it out. The first development is that there will be no vote on legalizing recreational use of marijuana on this year's ballot. It's been lingering on life support as MI...

We know where marijuana law and access in Michigan is going in the short term. Two recent legal developments have laid it out. The first development is that there will be no vote on legalizing recreational use of marijuana on this year's ballot. It's been lingering on life support as MI...

East Lansing - Residents will get a say on proposed changes to East Lansing's marijuana ordinance. In a city council meeting Tuesday, city officials scheduled a public hearing for Oct. 11 to discuss a change that would allow people over the age of 21 to use, possess or transfer less than an...

The state now has regulations to control the amount of medical marijuana dispensaries in Michigan. Under the new rules: Dispensaries can be open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; There must be security cameras; There cannot be drive through windows; The marijuana must be labeled; The license...

The state now has regulations to control the amount of medical marijuana dispensaries in Michigan. Under the new rules: Dispensaries can be open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; There must be security cameras; There cannot be drive through windows; The marijuana must be labeled; The license...

Marion - The medical director of a Marion clinic that has seen many local patients attempting to access the state's medical marijuana program has been subpoenaed as part of an ongoing investigation, a state official said. The ongoing investigation by the Illinois Department of Professional...