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Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz County supervisors on Tuesday unanimously adopted a 45-day moratorium on nonmedical cannabis activities, a week after California voters said they wanted a state system to regulate adult use of nonmedical marijuana. Some local cannabis industry representatives favored a...

Benjamin Franklin said that taxes, like death, are one of life's few certainties. But due to a glitch in the technical language of California's successful marijuana legalization initiative, the state's pot smokers may prove him wrong. California's marijuana legalization initiative is designed...

Congratulations Massachusetts, we just passed one of the worst pot bills in the country. Now what? Plenty. Our Beacon Hill leaders should do what they didn't do in the first place, which is steer this runaway train down the right track. The Yes on 4 campaign successfully tapped into...

Voters left no doubt Nov. 8 about their views on whether marijuana retailers in The Dalles should pay an extra tax. As results of the general election came in, it soon became clear there was a landslide of support for Measure 33-89 in the city of The Dalles, a ballot measure that imposes a 3...

Over 63 million Americans now live in states where it's legal to consume recreational weed. Americans said "yes we cannabis" on Election Day, when voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada passed ballot initiatives fully legalizing the use and possession of marijuana without a...

For those who supported recreational marijuana consumption in Massachusetts in Tuesday's election, it may feel like Christmas is coming early this December. On December 15, marijuana will become legal for use in Massachusetts, and marijuana shops will open in 2018, the Boston Globe reported...

Huntington - Huntington voters overwhelmingly approved a city sales tax on sales of recreational marijuana in the Tuesday's General Election, but it was not the only community in eastern Oregon where the issue was on the ballot. According to numbers posted on Baker County's website, the vote...

Shasta Lake city staff and dispensary owners will discuss increasing the marijuana sales tax, mitigating or banning outdoor grows and their smell, legal weed and more at the medical marijuana ad hoc committee meeting Monday. The meeting begins at 1:30 p.m. at the council chambers, 4488 Red...

Supporters of the marijuana industry should be celebrating this week's passage of eight state ballot measures to permit its use by adults. That promises to triple the industry's size in coming years. But harshing their buzz are several key allies of President-elect Donald Trump, such as his...

Coos Bay, Ore. - State-licensed marijuana businesses are now allowed in Coos Bay following Tuesday's election. Just over 67 percent of voters approved the measure. Managers at Herbal Choices in Charleston say they've been waiting for this moment since marijuana was legalized in Oregon in...

Voters in Bend approved the city's first sales tax, a 3 percent tax on recreational marijuana. Madras and La Pine voters also approved 3 percent sale taxes on pot after bans on marijuana failed. Right now, there is a 25 percent state sales tax on recreational marijuana, but that will drop...

What's being voted on Today is a big day for the marijuana industry, with residents in five states voting on whether or not to legalize recreational cannabis. One of those states is Maine, with voters deciding on Question 1, or the Maine Marijuana Legalization Measure as it's officially known...

Pueblo, Colo. - One southern Colorado community will decide on Tuesday whether to keep recreational marijuana shops. Pueblo County Commissioners looked at a handful of projects funded by marijuana tax money on Wednesday morning. Future projects that depend on tax money from marijuana won't...

Ottawa - Canada will have little wiggle room to tax recreational marijuana sales when it moves to legalize the psychoactive drug, a report to parliament said Tuesday. One of the principal rationales cited by supporters for ending the prohibition on pot has been the bounty of tax revenues...

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...

With pot on the ballot in nine states, the big winner in next Tuesday's election could be America's legal cannabis industry. By 2020, legal market sales are expected to surpass $22 billion. And for states struggling with budget shortfalls, that extra revenue would be clearly welcome. Voters...

If California voters decide to legalize recreational marijuana on November 8, local governments across the state should make sure not to ruin the party. In addition to legalizing marijuana, Proposition 64 could create a windfall of revenue for state and local governments. Prop. 64 includes a...

To The Board of Supervisors, We, the members of Southern Humboldt Community Alliance, do NOT support Measure S. By placing the Humboldt County Commercial Marijuana Cultivation Measure (Measure S) on the November 8th ballot, the Board of Supervisors are asking the voters to enable the...

Intent on tapping the economic green rush of legal marijuana, Mendocino and Lake counties, and Cloverdale and Point Arena, have placed cannabis taxes on the Nov. 8 ballot, with Sonoma County and Santa Rosa planning to follow suit next year. Those local and county officials see cannabis...

In a recent article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, former state Assemblyman Pat Hickey asserted that marijuana tax revenues are a "pipe dream." This is apparently his way of attempting to undermine support for Question 2, the initiative to regulate marijuana like alcohol. The problem is, Mr...