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The day of reckoning has come for Washington's medical marijuana system. It's been a strange trip, starting with 1998's Initiative 692, which opened the door to home growing for patients and morphed into "collective gardens" that sprouted more than 300 storefront dispensaries statewide...

The day of reckoning has come for Washington's medical marijuana system. It's been a strange trip, starting with 1998's Initiative 692, which opened the door to home growing for patients and morphed into "collective gardens" that sprouted more than 300 storefront dispensaries statewide...

There is a hallucinatory quality to the way intoxicating substances are bought and sold in Ontario these days. Choose your alcoholic poison - beer, wine, spirits - mindful that robust government regulation (not to mention revenue) remains on tap. But choose your leafy medicine - marijuana...

British Columbia's Health Minister says he will use meetings with his provincial and federal counterparts this week in Vancouver to push for recreational marijuana to be sold in locations that are strictly regulated and inspected, such as special kiosks at liquor stores. Terry Lake also said...

P.E.I. Finance Minister Allen Roach says it's far too early to contemplate selling marijuana in Prince Edward Island liquor stores. "I'll be honest with you, marijuana being sold anywhere in P.E.I. is not on my agenda right now," he told The Guardian. "It's premature to say we're going to...

Marijuana represents a potential "revenue opportunity" for the Saskatchewan government, but Premier Brad Wall says he's not thinking about selling it in provincial liquor stores. In an interview, Wall told CBC News that because the federal Liberals campaigned on legalizing marijuana, he's...

Despite suggestions from two Canadian premiers that legalized weed be sold in provincial liquor stores, Saskatchewan's premier has more pressing concerns than point-of-sale mechanics. "I think there are still questions to ask before we start worrying about where it's sold," Brad Wall told...

One of British Columbia's largest unions has joined forces with private liquor stores to press for permission to sell non-medical marijuana in provincial liquor stores once that becomes legal. The province's liquor store network has a solid track record for selling alcohol in a socially...