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California is days away from launching a legal marketplace for adults to buy and sell recreational marijuana. On Jan. 1, the state will carry through on a vision voters endorsed by passing Proposition 64 last year. Yet as legal cannabis moves from campaign pitch to reality – amid lots of...

California's new rules allowing marijuana cultivation favor large corporate farms despite a promise in Proposition 64 that small growers would be protected, according to a group of state lawmakers and marijuana industry leaders who called Monday for the policy to be changed. The California...

Lawmakers on Monday morning will hold a continued public hearing on the updated rules and regulations for the island’s medical marijuana program. Sen. Dennis Rodriguez’s committee on health recently made markups on Bill 210, which would adopt the rules recently rewritten by the Department of...

Have they opened Pandora's box? Some Deerfield Beach city leaders worry that's what they might've done by allowing marijuana dispensaries in the city. They're now trying to stop medical dispensaries from clustering citywide by keeping them out of commercial areas that also have homes, as well...

Gov. Rick Snyder issued rules Monday policing medical marijuana businesses, less than two weeks before the state begins accepting license applications under a new regulatory system. The emergency rules will remain in effect for at least six months until permanent ones are finalized. They...

Less than two weeks before medical marijuana facilities apply to do business in Michigan, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs has officially released the rules that will govern their operation. "The emergency administrative rules are designed to preserve patient protections...

Sebastopol could become the first place in Sonoma County to establish local rules governing the recreational cannabis trade, allowing adults without prescriptions to buy marijuana by next year. City Council members Tuesday will consider putting draft rules for the non-medical marketplace on a...

Medical marijuana providers and patients in Montana say proposed regulatory actions would place considerable cost and time burdens on them. The Montana Standard reports the stakeholders voiced opposition to the set of proposed rules during a hearing Thursday at the state Department of Public...

With just over a month to go before recreational cannabis becomes legal in California, the City of Los Angeles is preparing to establish new rules for regulating sellers, growers and users. Marijuana businesses could not be too close to schools or parks, and existing medical marijuana...

Residents are encouraged to read the rules and regulations of Guam's new medical cannabis industry before a public hearing on Dec. 5. Sen. Dennis Rodriguez Jr. is asking the community to look at the draft rules and regulations, then send him their suggestions before the public hearing next...

Several new rules and regulations for legal cannabis in Colorado have been finalized and will go into effect January 1, 2018, according to the Marijuana Enforcement Division. The MED had been holding stakeholder meetings and accepting public feedback on many of the proposed rules since...

If The Man's plan becomes reality next summer, recreational pot use will really only be legal for homeowners. The province has already said that public consumption of the soon-to-be-legal plant will be banned. Where will we smoke in the Big Smoke? In September, Toronto's Municipal Licensing...

The City Council has taken the final step in laying out rules for cannabis use in town, including prohibiting marijuana businesses from being within 1,000 feet of a school or recreational center. The final passage of the ordinance that changes the city's municipal code – which comes as...

After years of existing in a legal gray area, marijuana entrepreneurs now appear to have a clear pathway to full-on legal sales. The state of California recently unveiled emergency rules under which sellers, makers, growers and deliverers of cannabis can apply for permits. At the same time...

Medical marijuana caregivers say Maine's new program rules may not be as bad — or require as much work to follow — as they had initially feared. Some caregivers say the new rules may even help the industry by legitimizing certain practices that were once considered legally murky, like patient...

California released long-awaited rules Thursday that will govern the state's emerging legal marijuana industry, while potentially opening the way for larger-scale cultivation that some fear could strangle small-farm growers. The thicket of emergency regulations will allow the state to begin...

The state health department released a pack of proposed rules for the medical marijuana industry, which will be the subject of a public hearing later this month. The rules provide new information about how the industry would be regulated in areas like employment, product tracking and testing...

Sen. Dennis Rodriguez, Jr., D-Dededo, hopes to have rules and regulations for medical marijuana approved by December after introducing a bill to approve them. Rodriguez announced Bill 210-34 Monday afternoon after receiving the updated rules and regulations from the Department of Public...

Las Vegas' reputation as a place where you can indulge your vices and have a good time helps it lure some 43 million visitors a year. But tourists heading to Sin City hoping to consume newly legal cannabis have a problem: There are few places in town, other than private homes, where someone can...

Maine is cracking down on how caregivers grow and distribute medical marijuana, allowing surprise inspections and implementing a plant-to-patient tracking system. The state Department of Health and Human Services issued new rules Wednesday that tighten Maine's fast-growing and changing...