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Boston — The city's public health officials said Wednesday they're steeling themselves for the legalization of marijuana in Massachusetts and looking for advice from their counterparts in Colorado, where marijuana has been commercially available since 2014. Massachusetts voters signed off on...

Boston - Boston officials will be getting some firsthand advice on how to deal with issues surrounding the legalization of recreational marijuana. Two public health officials from Denver will participate remotely in a meeting of the city's board of health on Wednesday. They will discuss...

New state laws permitting medical marijuana dispensaries take effect Dec. 20, but local officials said it will be longer than that before they open in their towns. Local municipalities may choose to ban or to allow dispensaries, and may regulate their number and location under the new laws...

New state laws permitting medical marijuana dispensaries take effect Dec. 20, but local officials said it will be longer than that before they open in their towns. Local municipalities may choose to ban or to allow dispensaries, and may regulate their number and location under the new laws...

It's no joke what's happening in our community right now concerning Tri-State's decision to close Unit 1 in 2025. Luckily, our elected officials are ahead of the "economic diversity" game. But after the Steamboat Today reported that marijuana dispensaries sold $6.1 million in recreational and...

In the years following Colorado's passing of Amendment 64, legalizing the purchase of up to 1 ounce of marijuana and permitting the sale, enforcement capabilities toward medical and retail marijuana have continued to evolve - most notably in the area of plant inventory and tracking technology...

As Colorado's enforcement capabilities toward medical and retail marijuana continue to evolve - most notably in the area of plant inventory and tracking technology - cities have begun to follow suit on a smaller scale. One of the cities taking these steps will be Lafayette, as officials on...

Officials in Washington, D.C., have called for a regulated market for marijuana consumption and redefined the issue as a threat to public health and safety, in an effort to circumvent Congressional blocks to the District's efforts to legalize the drug. The D.C. Department of Health released a...

Osceola County commissioners today will consider an ordinance that could lessen the punishment for small amounts of marijuana, officials say. If approved, Osceola residents in possession of 20 grams of cannabis or less could get slapped with a $100 fine instead of jail time, documents show...

More than 100 city and county elected officials signed a letter to state lawmakers urging them to expand Iowa's limited medical cannabis program. The letter, released Wednesday to the media, urges legislators to "pass a bill that will allow for medical cannabis to be produced, distributed and...