Utah authorities are investigating a rapidly growing industry that has led businesses to offer cannabis products that people are using without prescription to treat various ailments amid uncertainty in state and federal law.
Businesses across Utah are selling cannabidiol, or CBD, a...
It's a growing industry in a booming Colorado economy, but out of work employees at Sweet Leaf marijuana centers say they're having a tough time finding other jobs because of a recent raid by Denver Police.
DPD raided eight Sweet Leaf locations on December 14, after a sting operation found a...
Hampden Care Facility Inc., having received local approval for a medical marijuana dispensary in East Springfield over a year ago, plans to open in early spring, its top executive said this week.
"We are just really excited to be able to open our doors," CEO Mark Zatyrka said. "It's full...
Key lawmakers will meet with Gov. Paul LePage on Friday to try to reach agreement on how to change an adult-use marijuana bill so it would gain his support.
Members of a special committee that drafted the bill after state voters approved legalization in 2016 said they were optimistic that...
When Harrison Township votes on its medical marijuana ordinance next month, there is expected to be little opposition to the plan to allow a couple of dozen cannabis businesses into the Macomb County community.
"At last check, we had 18 legitimate grow operations in the community. At a...
The confusing rollout of marijuana regulations in California has been underscored in Mendocino County, where local authorities licensed a company to deliver pot only to have state police arrest two employees who were trying to do just that with nearly a ton of weed.
The workers for Old Kai...
A new gold rush is sweeping California as the state prepares to launch legal marijuana sales Monday, bringing the powerful and largely underground economy finally into public view.
Marijuana has long been one of California's most important cash crops, albeit one many visitors would never see...
A disinterested pharmaceutical industry and the conundrum of finding a convincing placebo are just two reasons experts say there has been little quality research into medicinal marijuana.
A growing number of Canadians are turning to medical cannabis despite questions about its risks and...
At least 30 companies want to get into the legal mass production of cannabis in the Netherlands, according to the mayor of the southern city of Breda, whose council is among two dozen vying to take part in government-backed trials designed to cut criminals out of supplying cannabis-selling...
California's Central Coast – Santa Barbara County, in particular – has for decades maintained healthy, deep roots in the agricultural industry.
With the state set to begin regulating a legal commercial marijuana industry Monday, many in and around the region are preparing for the expansion of...
The term "medical marijuana dispensary" conjures all the coziness of a hospital gown.
Denise and Lyndsey Odachowski want to change that.
Their mother-and-daughter pharmacy, which deals exclusively in the newly available drug, pops with splashes of green paint and sunny photographs of the...
Legal recreational use of marijuana in New Jersey could be months away, and municipal leaders across the state are beginning to wonder what effects the legalization of pot might have on their municipality.
Democratic Governor-elect Phil Murphy pledged during his campaign that he would sign...
Placer County's only medpot dispensary has opened again in Colfax after an absence of five years.
The re-opening of Golden State Patient Care, 233 Highway 174, comes two months after a tumultuous Colfax City Council meeting and a 3-2 vote allowing the medical dispensary to renew its business...
A growing number of Canadians are turning to medical cannabis despite questions about its risks and effectiveness as a health product.
Marijuana's unconventional journey onto the medical market puts it at odds with more mainstream medications, which typically undergo years of costly scrutiny...
The push to legalize recreational marijuana in New Mexico is being revived by legislators.
State lawmakers behind the idea say their only hurdle is getting marijuana legalization on the ballot for voters to decide. That means getting a majority of legislators on board.
The senator behind...
If and when marijuana is legalized in New Jersey, there will be at least one town where it won't be sold.
The Point Pleasant Beach borough council has unanimously approved a full ban on marijuana sales, including both medical marijuana dispensaries and any retail business looking to sell...
The sauvignon blanc boasts brassy, citrus notes, but with one whiff, it's apparent this is no normal Sonoma County wine. It's infused with THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that provides the high.
Move over, pot brownies. The world's largest legal recreational marijuana market...
When California rings in the new year with the sale of recreational pot for the first time, Texas will be tiptoeing into its own marijuana milestone: a medical cannabis program so restrictive that doubts swirl over who will even use it.
Texas is the last big state to allow some form of...
Marijuana is being studied as a treatment for Tourette syndrome's involuntary movements and vocalizations.
While the Board of Physicians for the state Department of Consumer Protection's medical marijuana program rejected Tourette syndrome as an approved condition, researchers are studying...
Town officials have appealed to the community for help regulating potential recreational marijuana dispensaries in Hudson. Residents and local business representatives responded with mixed feelings during a listening session Dec. 13.
Having voted in favor of legalization on last year's ballot...