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Nunavut could hold broad community consultations on marijuana legalization legislation before September, according to the territory's justice minister. The territory is facing a tight deadline to pass the law by July 1, 2018. That's when the federal government hopes to have marijuana...

Thirty percent of marijuana businesses are audited each year by the IRS; adding to that pressure is the threat of new regulations the industry may have to adopt. To ease the load, Keegan Peterson founded Wurk, which helps marijuana companies keep track of all their business records – from...

Portland, Maine - The potential statewide moratorium proposed Wednesday would force people who want to open cannabis-based businesses to wait until that period is over before setting up shop. Medical cannabis caregivers said Wednesday that this could have serious business impacts on the state...

Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz County has its first cannabis czar. Daniel Peterson, 55, who has spent his career as a water resources engineer for Yuba and Sutter counties, started Monday as the Santa Cruz cannabis licensing official, overseeing an industry operating in the shadows that now has an...

Omaha - Attorney General Doug Peterson quickly found himself thrust into the role of Nebraska's highest-profile opponent of legal marijuana when he took office last year. Now a fellow elected official is publicly opposing him - arguing not only to allow medical cannabis, but to decriminalize...

The medical marijuana farm in Edgewood is nearly finished. Located just off Route 37, the highly secure facility, surrounded by a barbed-wire fence and under the watch of surveillance cameras, will initially house four "grow rooms," an "extraction room" and a kitchen. But as demand for...

The medical marijuana farm in Edgewood is nearly finished. Located just off Route 37, the highly secure facility, surrounded by a barbed-wire fence and under the watch of surveillance cameras, will initially house four "grow rooms," an "extraction room" and a kitchen. But as demand for...

The use of marijuana appears to be slowing gaining acceptance in Nevada, with the state set to deliberate on November whether recreational marijuana should be made legal. There remains, however, an obstacle that could hamper the developing marijuana business in the region: insurance companies...

A broken neck in a surfing accident triggered a dramatic career change for Derek Peterson, a former Wall Street banker who now heads listed cannabis company Terra Tech. Having broken his neck in a surfing accident, Derek Peterson had first-hand experience of the painkilling benefits of...