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Galien – The decision on whether Galien Township will allow medical marijuana growing operations is being delayed. After hearing some public comments during a hearing Monday night, the township's planning commission voted 5-0 to get more information about the pros and cons of such a...

Hellam Township has moved its Feb. 2 meeting from the municipal building to the Hellam Fire Company, anticipating a large crowd for public comments concerning a planned medical marijuana manufacturing center. A York-based company, Viridis Medicine LLC, wants to build the marijuana facility at...

Less than a year after Gov. Tom Wolf legalized medical marijuana in Pennsylvania, his former business partner hopes to jump into the competitive fledgling industry. A company called Viridis Medicine, LLC last week filed for a conditional use permit to build a medical marijuana manufacturing...

The fledgling Pennsylvania medical marijuana industry is facing a roadblock. When municipalities first drafted their ordinances years ago, they never contemplated zoning regulations to permit the growth, processing or dispensing of cannabis. Pocono Township faces such a problem. Consultants...

Covington Township - Lackawanna County is a step closer to having a medical marijuana production facility. Supervisors in Covington Township cleared the way for one to be built there. It's the first in many steps before medical marijuana becomes legal in Pennsylvania next year. Covington...

Newtown Township - With the Pennsylvania Department of Health getting ready to implement the state's new medical marijuana program, local officials are looking at where the licensed growers and dispensaries should be located. Because Newtown Township is part of a joint municipal zoning...

Belle Vernon — Rostraver Township has given its approval to a Bethel Park woman's plans to open a medical marijuana growing and processing plant in the Mon Valley municipality. The township's zoning hearing board Wednesday granted an exemption to the local ordinance giving Corinne Ogrodnik...

As Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern trudged toward a 49-state drubbing at the hands of Richard Nixon in the 1972 general election, one of the many millstones weighing down McGovern's hapless campaign was the perception that the South Dakotan was too liberal when it came to the...

Avella — More than two months ahead of the deadline for would-be growers and dispensers of medical marijuana to seek permission from state officials, Hopewell has adopted local zoning rules for any such outfits that eventually set up shop in the township. Supervisors amended the local zoning...

A Dauphin County company working in the medical marijuana pharmaceutical industry is proposing one of the first processing facilities in the south central region be placed in Business Campus One in Penn Twp., Perry County. PA Options for Wellness has approached the business park operators...

Bartonsville, Monroe County - Tucked between a daycare and car dealership sits a vacant piece of property along Route 611 in Bartonsville. To a cannabis growing company called CannaMed, the land looks like gold. "I think it's good we're moving into the future like that," says Jessica VanWhy...

Pocono Township – A stretch of Route 611 near Tannersville is where owners of a medical marijuana business from California hope to expand in Pennsylvania. "CannaMed of Thousand Oaks" wants to grow and produce medical marijuana products in Pocono Township. "They proposed an amendment to our...

Zullinger, Pa. – A marijuana-growing and -processing company is eyeing Wharf Road Industrial Park in Washington Township, Pa., as a place to develop greenhouses and employ about 50 workers, if the company is approved for one of Pennsylvania's first medical-marijuana production licenses...

Saginaw Township, MI - On the heels of state officials regulating medical marijuana dispensaries, Saginaw Township officials have decided they do not want such facilities in the township. The township Board of Trustees on Monday, Nov. 28, passed an ordinance preventing facilities involved in...

Plainfield Township, Mich. - Authorities say the three Kent County medical marijuana dispensaries they raided Monday repeatedly failed to follow state law. The Kent Area Narcotics Enforcement Team says it executed search warrants at three Plainfield Township dispensaries, including the Relief...

Plainfield Township, MICH. - Some West Michigan medical marijuana patients say they now must travel all the way to Ann Arbor or Detroit to get their medicine. That's because this week, members of the Kent Area Narcotics Enforcement Team raided and closed three dispensaries in Plainfield...

Supervisors from Williams and Hanover townships aren't rolling out the red carpet for marijuana dispensaries or greenhouses. But if someone wants to open one, they want to be prepared. Williams Township supervisors on Nov. 9 authorized solicitor Jonathan Reiss to draft an ordinance...

Supervisors from Williams and Hanover townships aren't rolling out the red carpet for marijuana dispensaries or greenhouses. But if someone wants to open one, they want to be prepared. Williams Township supervisors on Nov. 9 authorized solicitor Jonathan Reiss to draft an ordinance...

Huron Twp. - Huron Township officials snuffed out the possibility of medical marijuana merchants from legally conducting business in their jurisdiction. During a recent public meeting, all three trustees voted to permanently ban those cultivating, processing, selling and dispensing the...

Huron Twp. - Huron Township officials snuffed out the possibility of medical marijuana merchants from legally conducting business in their jurisdiction. During a recent public meeting, all three trustees voted to permanently ban those cultivating, processing, selling and dispensing the...