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On the eve of California's big new experiment with legal cannabis sales, cities and counties are becoming a kaleidoscopic landscape as they race to enact laws by the start of the new year that reflect their hopes and fears. Will there be a flood of tax revenue from cannabis to fix potholes...

The Fountain Valley City Council took a step Tuesday toward banning recreational marijuana-related businesses in town. The council voted 4-0, with member Mark McCurdy abstaining, to approve the first reading of an ordinance to ban all commercial marijuana activity such as shops and delivery...

The first distributions of state marijuana tax revenues -- totaling nearly $85 million -- are on their way to the State School Fund; the Mental Health, Alcoholism, and Drug Services Account; the Oregon State Police; the Oregon Health Authority, and Oregon's cities and counties. All...

Marijuana may be legal in Nevada, but don't expect dispensaries to join casinos among Jackpot's illegal-in-Idaho tourist draws. A majority of voters in Elko County, as in most of the state's more Republican counties, voted against the legalization initiative that passed with 54 percent of the...

Recreational marijuana is so popular in Hermosa Beach that voters there delivered the third-highest percentage of support in the county for Proposition 64, behind only Santa Monica and West Hollywood. But unlike those cities to its north, which are readying permit processes for some...

More than three years after recreational marijuana sales began in Washington, cities are seeing less and less of the pot revenue the state once promised. As cities struggle with budgets, they're going to feel the pain from money they aren't getting, said Association of Washington Cities...

Relief from pain may not be around the corner for those seeking pain relief with marijuana. Never mind that nearly three-fourths of Florida's voters agreed pot should be legal for medical use. At least six South Florida cities have banned, or plan to ban, the dispensaries where legal...

To hear many local officials talk about it, you'd think those narrow, serrated leaves were made of gold. Mounting unfunded pension costs? Wonder weed will pay the bills. Mental health costs rising? Sell more wonder weed. Worried that public safety won't have enough cars or cops to fill...

With increasingly liberalized public attitudes and laws regarding marijuana, Inland communities have had to confront the question of how to deal with it. While most Inland governments chose not to permit medical marijuana businesses authorized by Proposition 215, the passage of Proposition 64...

California law now says every resident 21 or older has a right to grow up to six marijuana plants for personal use. The law also says cities or counties can "reasonably regulate" homegrown pot. Those two rules are turning the state's recently passed marijuana law, Proposition 64, into...

Tamarac has followed other cities in buying time as it tries to find ways to limit the impact of medical marijuana dispensing entities and treatment centers opening within its limits. At a recent city commission meeting, officials ratified the city manager's decision to declare "zoning in...

On Tuesday Amendment 2, Medical Marijuana, goes into effect in Florida. The amendment was supported by 71 percent of voters and doctors are taking on the risk of recommending the drug. As of now there are 91 doctors in Tampa alone, mostly in Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties, who can legally...

Inland city leaders are starting to discuss how to respond to California voters' Nov. 8 approval of recreational marijuana. But wait, some residents may say, don't most cities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties already ban growing and selling pot? They do, but many of those bans...

Healdsburg this week joined a growing list of cities looking to curb outdoor marijuana cultivation. The City Council on Monday unanimously approved an urgency ordinance forbidding the growing of non-medical marijuana outside, and only allowing indoor grows with strict health and safety...

Salem, Ore. - Some 30 counties and cities in Oregon approved some type of marijuana businesses in last week's election, and officials in those communities now must establish rules for every step in the production and supply chain. When voters legalized recreational marijuana statewide two...

Westbrook, Maine - Cities and towns around Maine are looking to put moratoriums on the sale of marijuana in advance of a vote that could make the substance legal in the state. Maine voters will decide whether to allow legal recreational marijuana use in the state on Nov. 8. At issue are retail...

In the dusty, wind-swept city of Adelanto, officials are predicting big changes on the horizon. City Councilman Johnny "Bug" Woodard Jr. recently stood in front of a chain-link fence surrounding a vacant lot in the city's Green Zone, the industrial area where Adelanto allows medical marijuana...

Cleveland - Cleveland has joined the growing list of Ohio cities that have enacted moratoriums that for now prohibit permits and licenses to be issued for medical marijuana-related businesses. The legislation approved Monday by the Cleveland City Council calls for a one-year moratorium. More...

Cleveland - Cleveland has joined the growing list of Ohio cities that have enacted moratoriums that for now prohibit permits and licenses to be issued for medical marijuana-related businesses. The legislation approved Monday by the Cleveland City Council calls for a one-year moratorium. More...

Too many questions remain unanswered for marijuana decriminalization to be seriously considered in individual Tennessee cities, but Nashville and Memphis have pushed ahead with decisions on the issue. The Nashville Metropolitan Council was to have taken a final vote on its ordinance Tuesday...