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How did one of the most progressive, pro-cannabis cities in America screw up its cannabis business regulations so badly? Last November, San Francisco residents voted in favor of marijuana legalization by 73%. But if you listen to the discussion at City Hall, it's as if legalization never...

Recreational marijuana users may be looking forward to Jan. 1, the day the drug becomes legal in California, but for Los Angeles-based cannabis businesses that date is nothing to celebrate. That's because the LA City Council's latest draft of cannabis regulations requires current marijuana...

Mainers could pay a 20 percent sales tax on purchases of recreational marijuana if a bill proposed by the Legislature's marijuana implementation committee becomes law. The tax is double what was proposed in a ballot initiative approved by voters last year. But it's similar to the effective...

A local businessman in the cannabis industry and two city councilors would like the city to review a proposed ordinance that would regulate marijuana growth, cultivation and distribution in the city. Maine voters legalized marijuana last November. Marijuana use is legal for those 21 and...

Rules have been proposed for regulating the cultivation, processing, testing, and sale of medical marijuana in the city of Toledo. During a hearing Thursday in Government Center, the Toledo Plan Commission will take up proposed regulations drafted by its staff for medical-marijuana businesses...

Spurred by loosened city regulations and the state's legalization of recreational marijuana, several new marijuana dispensaries are either opening or being proposed in San Diego. The new wave of dispensaries follows a year-long lull when no new shops were approved or began operating in San...

Among the main concerns Tuesday night at a public hearing on social marijuana use at Denver businesses were dual consumption of pot and alcohol, cannabis odors, visibility and protecting children from exposure to the drug. The hearing at the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building before...

On April 13, 2017, the Liberal Party of Canada fulfilled a 2015 campaign promise, tabling long-awaited legislation to end Canada's prohibition on cannabis. The proposed Cannabis Act would make Canada the first G7 country to legalize and regulate cannabis for recreational use, sale and...

Ohioans seeking medical marijuana to address chronic pain, cancer, brain injuries and other conditions will have to pay $50 a year to the state for a patient card, according to rules being considered by the Ohio Medical Marijuana Advisory Commission. The advisory panel is accepting public...

Tallahassee, Fla. - Authors of Florida's voter-approved constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana are blasting proposed rules to regulate the cannabis industry. The proposed rules, released Tuesday by state health officials, would essentially maintain current vendors'...

Tallahassee, Fla. - Authors of Florida's voter-approved constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana are blasting proposed rules to regulate the cannabis industry. The proposed rules, released Tuesday by state health officials, would essentially maintain current vendors'...

Holyoke, Mass. — The Department of Public Health has scheduled a hearing in Holyoke Thursday, to discuss proposed changes to the state's medical marijuana law. The proposal policy changes aim to fix some of the issues patients have faced when attempting to get a medical marijuana prescription...

Pueblo City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on retail marijuana store licensing rules that appear to address several public concerns over the number and location of pot shops within the city. We note that the proposed rules reflect appropriate caution, such as limiting the number of retail...

There would be 40 shops in Ohio licensed to dispense medical marijuana, under rules proposed today by the Ohio Board of Pharmacy. The board, one of three agencies overseeing the new medical marijuana law that took effect Sept. 8, said additional dispensaries may be licensed "based upon the...

Lansing - It could take awhile before City Council votes on a proposed medical marijuana ordinance that's been changed, debated and delayed for several months. Until a new ordinance is brought to Council's full eight-member body and approved, the city will continue following an ordinance...

Lansing - It could take awhile before City Council votes on a proposed medical marijuana ordinance that's been changed, debated and delayed for several months. Until a new ordinance is brought to Council's full eight-member body and approved, the city will continue following an ordinance...

The Supreme Court of Ohio has definitively quashed a marijuana initiative that proponents were seeking to place on November's ballot in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Norwood. Political action committee Sensible Norwood sought a writ of mandamus that would force the Hamilton County Board of...

The Arkansas Supreme Court today rejected a legal challenge to the sufficiency of the ballot title for an initiated act to legalize medical marijuana, dispensed by non-profit facilities. The lawsuit, by Arkansans Against Legal Marijuana, a coalition including the Farm Bureau and the Arkansas...

The Arkansas Supreme Court today rejected a legal challenge to the sufficiency of the ballot title for an initiated act to legalize medical marijuana, dispensed by non-profit facilities. The lawsuit, by Arkansans Against Legal Marijuana, a coalition including the Farm Bureau and the Arkansas...

City Councilor Mark Ciommo today tore into a medical-marijuana dispensary proposed for 144 Harvard Ave., stopping just short of accusing its proponents of being liars who would let kids down pot-laced gummy bears and lollipops. Compassionate Organics needs a statement of "non-opposition" from...