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With medicinal marijuana licenses in hand, New York dispensaries are finally gearing up to sell cannabis legally beginning Thursday. Columbia Care arguably has one the buzziest dispensary locations in New York City's Union Square neighborhood. The state in July granted five medicinal...

Recreational marijuana use is legal in four states, but Georgia isn't one of them. And it won't be joining the list anytime soon, a new ranking released Tuesday suggests. The Peach State ranked third after Alabama and Arkansas among 11 states least likely to legalize marijuana use, according to...

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission early Monday opened the state's online application system for marijuana licenses. The agency initially planned to staff a call center with staff and policy experts to take questions from people completing applications, but Sunday's winter storm prompted...

New York's medical marijuana program will finally be underway this month when four dispensaries open their doors in early January in New York City, DNAinfo New York reported. But due to a number of obstacles, advocates are concerned that medical marijuana use will be slow to take off in the...

New York's medical marijuana program will finally be underway this month when four dispensaries open their doors in early January in New York City, DNAinfo New York reported. But due to a number of obstacles, advocates are concerned that medical marijuana use will be slow to take off in the...

Wait–what I meant was, Washington State has a pot surplus. Becky Olson reports for Marijuana Business Daily: Olson reports that "scores of cultivation companies" have already gone under in Washington state and she predicts more will go under if desperate growers flood the market and drive...

Silver State Trading, Nevada's premier cultivator, manufacturer and distributor of medical-grade cannabis and associated products, signed an agreement to acquire the assets of CA-based Trokie, and obtained exclusive global rights to Trokie's patents and intellectual property. The Trokie is a...

Seven proposed ballot questions have enough signatures to move closer to a spot on the 2016 ballot, Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin's office confirmed Friday. Voters in 2016 may have a chance to decide whether Massachusetts should legalize recreational marijuana, license a new...

The New York state Department of Health says the state's new medical cannabis program will begin on Thursday. A department spokesman announced the date Monday in response to questions from The Associated Press. Under the new law, patients with qualifying conditions can get permission from...

The New York state Department of Health says the state's new medical cannabis program will begin on Thursday. A department spokesman announced the date Monday in response to questions from The Associated Press. Under the new law, patients with qualifying conditions can get permission from...

A cannabis producer left out of Minnesota's medical marijuana program is suing the state over the planned public release of information submitted as part of an unsuccessful bid. Abatin Minnesota was established as a limited liability company in September 2014 for the sole purpose of bidding...

Marijuana prohibition is entering its 78th year. Colorado's marijuana law went into effect at the beginning of last year in the wake of changing attitudes. Compared to 1969, when only 12% supported legalizing pot, today a majority of Americans support legalizing recreational use of the drug...

Illegal in the United States for nearly 80 years, marijuana accounted for 8.2 million arrests nationwide between 2001 and 2010. Despite the decades old federal ban, the country's attitude toward marijuana has been changing. While only 12% of Americans supported legalizing pot in 1969, 58% of...

New York plans to have its medical marijuana program operating in early January. There's just one glaring omission: The state Department of Health hasn't released a list of doctors who are registered to write medical-marijuana prescriptions. "It's a real problem," said Julie Netherland...

New York plans to have its medical marijuana program operating in early January. There's just one glaring omission: The state Department of Health hasn't released a list of doctors who are registered to write medical-marijuana prescriptions. "It's a real problem," said Julie Netherland...

Come next week, the medical marijuana dispensary at 445 state Route 28 in the town of Ulster will be open to patients, according to officials at Etain, LLC. The Katonah-based company won state approval in July to grow medical cannabis in Warren County and dispense in the town of Ulster...

I don't often use superlatives, but it's easy to say that 2016 will be the most significant year yet in the battle to repeal marijuana prohibition in the United States. Up until now, the two biggest years were 1996, when California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana, and...

Just when it seemed Florida might finally be getting off the state's dizzying medical marijuana merry-go-round, new variables promise further delay of the legal, non-euphoric marijuana the Legislature promised two years ago. The 2016 session just became legislators' last chance to deliver...

There are three campaigns hoping to put legalization of recreational marijuana on the November ballot. Two of those groups – who appear to be raising significant money and have been collecting signatures for months – would tax and regulate marijuana for personal use for people 21 and older. A...

A bill introduced in the Virginia legislature would decriminalize marijuana for adults, changing criminal penalties into civil infractions. The proposal would not only decriminalize marijuana in the Old Dominion, it would also take a big step toward nullifying federal cannabis prohibition in...