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It's been some years since Islanders have seen a black helicopter crisscrossing the Island, its crew scanning Martha's Vineyard woodlands and backyards for homegrown cannabis. Last Tuesday and Wednesday the black bird was back. Massachusetts National Guard personnel, operating under a grant...

It's been some years since Islanders have seen a black helicopter crisscrossing the Island, its crew scanning Martha's Vineyard woodlands and backyards for homegrown cannabis. Last Tuesday and Wednesday the black bird was back. Massachusetts National Guard personnel, operating under a grant...

Concord, NH - The Marijuana Policy Project of NH has published its voter guide for the September 2016 primary and endorsed two candidates for governor and one for U.S. Senate, according to a press statement. Candidates for governor, U.S. Senate, and state Senate were asked three questions about...

The Oregon State Fair celebrates oddities like the "curviest vegetable" and the "most misshapen fruit." Fairgoers can marvel over award-winning onions and pumpkins and snap photos of the top pig and llama. This year, the state fair is adding a new attraction: prize-winning marijuana plants...

Medical marijuana may finally become available on Cape Cod by mid-2017, nearly five years after the state's voters legalized its use. Applicants are getting close to construction of dispensaries in Mashpee, Dennis and Bourne. The first to open will likely be on American Way in South Dennis...

Medical marijuana may finally become available on Cape Cod by mid-2017, nearly five years after the state's voters legalized its use. Applicants are getting close to construction of dispensaries in Mashpee, Dennis and Bourne. The first to open will likely be on American Way in South Dennis...

Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences will work with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture to develop policies and procedures to guide research projects for industrial hemp. Gov. Tom Wolf signed into law last week Act 192, which will allow the state agriculture department and...

Tampa, Florida - On Tuesday in Tallahassee, just blocks away from the Florida State Capitol building, a new store opened it's doors. For the first time in Florida, Medical Marijuana is legally available. Renee Petro hoped to be there, but her son's health would not allow it. Petro's son...

Tampa, Florida - On Tuesday in Tallahassee, just blocks away from the Florida State Capitol building, a new store opened it's doors. For the first time in Florida, Medical Marijuana is legally available. Renee Petro hoped to be there, but her son's health would not allow it. Petro's son...

A group that wants to end marijuana prohibition, and to have pot be regulated like alcohol, has endorsed conservative Republican Frank Edelblut and liberal Democrat Steve Marchand for governor. It is the first formal major endorsements in New Hampshire from the Marijuana Policy Project, an...

In a ruling that could significantly expand the use of medical marijuana in Illinois, a judge has ordered state officials to reconsider adding migraine headaches to the list of conditions that qualify a patient to buy the drug. Cook County Circuit Court Associate Judge Rita Novak overturned...

In a ruling that could significantly expand the use of medical marijuana in Illinois, a judge has ordered state officials to reconsider adding migraine headaches to the list of conditions that qualify a patient to buy the drug. Cook County Circuit Court Associate Judge Rita Novak overturned...

Medical marijuana could be available to a select group of Florida patients as early as next week, after health officials gave the go-ahead for the state's first pot dispensary to begin distributing products. The Northwest Florida operation, known as "Trulieve," is one of six dispensing...

Pittsfield - A special permit was granted Wednesday by the Zoning Board of Appeals for a medical marijuana dispensary and cultivation facility on Dalton Avenue - the third such permit granted in Pittsfield, all of which are awaiting required sales licenses from the state. The proposed facility...

Pittsfield - A special permit was granted Wednesday by the Zoning Board of Appeals for a medical marijuana dispensary and cultivation facility on Dalton Avenue - the third such permit granted in Pittsfield, all of which are awaiting required sales licenses from the state. The proposed facility...

Oklahoma City - Supporters of a state question to legalize medical marijuana will start paying petition circulators, compensating them should the proposal make it to the Nov. 8 ballot. Chip Paul, co-chair of Oklahomans for Health, said Tuesday the organization recently decided to pay $1 per...

Oklahoma City - Supporters of a state question to legalize medical marijuana will start paying petition circulators, compensating them should the proposal make it to the Nov. 8 ballot. Chip Paul, co-chair of Oklahomans for Health, said Tuesday the organization recently decided to pay $1 per...

Denver — Legal marijuana does not positively or negatively impact tourism in Colorado, according to state officials. The Colorado Tourism Office revisited the marijuana tourism question after a report presented in December 2015 stated that marijuana laws influenced vacation decisions nearly...

The Kentucky Executive Branch Ethics Commission on Monday apparently dismissed a complaint lodged against former state agriculture commissioner James Comer alleging he played party politics in issuing memorandums of understanding to allow individuals grow industrial hemp. The complaint...

At age 8, John Pesch was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, an incurable and often painful inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract. He has to be careful about what he eats, and he's not growing as much as he should because he isn't absorbing enough nutrients from his food. He says...