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The Mashpee Finance Committee voted against recommending a moratorium on retail marijuana sales in town and instead recommended to allow one, and possibly two, stores. The committee voted 5-0 against recommending an article at October Town Meeting to adopt the two-year moratorium, and 4-1 in...

The Mashpee Board of Selectmen on Monday, August 21, decided to give voters three options in crafting its town ordinances surrounding retail marijuana. Those in attendance at October Town Meeting will have the choice of putting a two-year moratorium on allowing recreational marijuana shops to...

The Town Council on Monday unanimously voted to support Altitude Organic Corporation's application for a state license that if approved could allow the Colorado company to build a medical marijuana cultivation facility at 8 Chamber Road. Company officials attending the meeting said the...

A Poughkeepsie woman was arrested with more than a pound of marijuana in her vehicle Thursday following a traffic stop in the Town of Wappinger. Jamila Chlih, 22, was charged with second-degree criminal possession of marijuana, a felony, and the misdemeanor of seventh-degree criminal...

Don't call it Weedland. A publicly traded marijuana firm called American Green says that it has purchased what it describes as an entire town in the California desert en route to Las Vegas. However, the company's vision of a pot-friendly town full of weed businesses could run into the law. The...

Nipton, Calif., 60 miles south of Las Vegas, isn't convenient to a whole lot. It sports a hotel, a trading post, a historical plaque and a whole lot of passing trains. And as of this week, Nipton has something else: a cannabis company for an owner, with designs on turning the hamlet into a...

Mass Medi-Spa says it still plans to open a medical marijuana dispensary in the Accord Business Park in Norwell despite local officials' concern that a bounced check and late payment mean the company won't be able to finish the project. "It's unfortunate that there was a communication...

With a July 1 deadline drifting like a haze of smoke past State House pols, community leaders awaiting guidance on the state's recreational pot laws find themselves unwittingly trapped in their own legislative limbo. Just before Middlesex East went to press this week, a half-dozen lawmakers...

Florida lawmakers have given local governments the responsibility of deciding whether or not to add medical marijuana dispensaries. The Town of Orange Park will hold a public meeting Thursday at the Town Council to gauge the residents' perspective. Last year, Orange Park became one of several...

A small town mayor in Crittenden County, Arkansas hopes to cash on medical marijuana. "We do have the room for the dispensary. That's what I would like to shoot for," said Turrell Mayor Dorothy Cooper. Cooper said she's in the process of applying to land a medical marijuana dispensary. An...

A new business called Green Dragon has been granted a license to sell recreational cannabis in Telluride. The four existing cannabis stores in Telluride aren't doing cartwheels of joy. The "Wal-Mart of weed," said the manager of one existing store. The "Starbucks of marijuana," said another of...

State lawmakers are considering changes to the state's recreational marijuana law. They have a self-imposed Friday deadline to find a compromise. The 22News I-Team keys in on one battle which involves how towns would be able to deny retail pot shops. Marijuana's legal, but do you want it...

There was a moment in August 1994 when Don Christen realized his idea for a big outdoor party to celebrate marijuana was really catching on. "I woke up on Saturday and the field was just covered with blankets and tents from people who slept there overnight," said Christen, 64, recalling that...

An eastern Massachusetts company is eyeing West Stockbridge as the potential site of a marijuana dispensary. Ipswich Pharmaceuticals representatives met with the Select Board last week as it begins to size up the community for a facility. "They're trying to get an understanding of what...

Two years after residents roundly rejected the retail sale of marijuana, Milliken officials are again plotting for pot. The town will host a community meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Milliken Police Department, 1201 Broad St., Milliken, to discuss allowing the sale of marijuana in town...

Westport will now allow up to two medical marijuana dispensaries to operate in town. In a unanimous vote, the six member Planning and Zoning Commission supported the amendment permitting dispensaries to operate in non-residential districts and at least 1,000 feet from any school, place of...

In a townwide referendum May 20, Wilbraham residents unequivocally rejected recreational marijuana, voting 1,244 to 477 for a ballot question banning all forms of commercial enterprise related to the distribution or production of recreational marijuana in the Town of Wilbraham. That includes...

While voters in the Commonwealth in November approved the legalization of recreational marijuana use and sales, West Springfield residents voted against the measure. Thus, some argue, they should be able to vote on whether the town will allow recreational marijuana dispensaries within the...

Pot gardening was back on the Town Council's agenda recently. Weed, that is, the controversial now legal-in-California recreational plant that alters one's reality for a time. California law gives any adult citizen the right to grow up to six marijuana plants where they live for personal use...

The legal marijuana industry brought in upwards of $4 billion in sales in 2016, according to a new report from the Marijuana Business Daily. And small-town America is riding the high. In the eight US states where recreational marijuana is legal, the marijuana "green rush" has breathed new...