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Lansing - A leader of a campaign to legalize marijuana in Michigan promised a court fight Thursday after the Board of State Canvassers rejected the group's petition to get on the ballot, saying too many of the submitted signatures are outdated. Detroit attorney Thomas Lavigne, a board member of...

The Marijuana Control Board approved the first-ever commercial marijuana businesses in Alaska on Thursday. After a rocky start to the meeting, the board began approving cultivation and testing facilities in midafternoon. "Everything takes longer than expected," newly appointed Chair Peter...

Alaska regulators were applauded Thursday as they approved the first licenses for legal marijuana growing and testing facilities – another milestone for the fledgling industry. Priority was being given to growing and testing operations to ensure that retail stores will have legal product to...

Lansing, MI – Marijuana advocates are vowing to continue their fight to legalize recreational marijuana use in Michigan, despite a Board of State Canvassers ruling their signature collection insufficient on Thursday. MILegalize, the group behind a petition drive to legalize recreational...

More than 100 people turned out for hearings this week on regulation of medical marijuana in the unincorporated county, with dozens expressing concerns about their inability to get the substance for various illnesses. The residents' concerns focused on the lack of access and the desire to...

Nunn - Town board members voted Saturday to make the town a little greener — in cash and crops. In the first of three votes to revise the town’s rules on marijuana, the Nunn Town Board voted 5-2 on an ordinance to overturn the town’s marijuana moratorium, which completely prohibited...

Rublican Gov. Bruce Rauner came under fire Monday as the doctors, nurses and patients on a state panel that recommends whether to expand Illinois' medical marijuana test program complained their suggestions are routinely ignored. The Medical Cannabis Advisory Board suggested that 10...

Illinois patients who want to use medical marijuana legally will try again to expand the program to include chronic pain, diabetes, migraine and other health conditions. Monday's meeting of the state's Medical Cannabis Advisory Board could lead to new recommendations, but Gov. Bruce Rauner's...

As rain pounded Northern California on Saturday January 16, the crowd at the North Fork Grange Hall in Junction City, swelled to standing room only with an overflow crowd outside of the door. Fifteen miles to the west a rock slide dammed highway 299 stopping traffic in both directions for...

Ballot Board to review proposed medical marijuana amendment: The latest hurdle for a proposed medical marijuana legalization ballot measure is set to take place at 2 p.m., when the Ohio Ballot Board is scheduled to consider whether the proposal contains one or multiple amendments. Medical...

Last July, as we reported, the Colorado Board of Health declined to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of conditions legally treatable by medical marijuana following a meeting that left many advocates frustrated. For example, Sue Sisley, a physician awarded a $2 million Colorado...

At its regularly scheduled meeting Monday, the Amherst Select Board voted to issue a letter of support to GTI-Massachusetts, a medical marijuana dispensary organization, for its proposed site at 169 Meadow St. This was the third request for support the board received this year. On Feb. 1, the...

A 45-day ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas of San Diego County was approved Wednesday by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors. The 45-day window will give staff time to return to the board with recommendations for stricter regulations or consideration of a...

Butte County's Board of Supervisors are rethinking their decision to restrict medical marijuana farms in the county at their next meeting, the board announced Thursday. Up for reconsideration are Ordinance 4107 and Ordinance 4106. Both ordinances were originally adopted on Jan. 26 supervisor's...

My grow spot is small. It is a under stairs room. My supplies weren't real extravagant, small carbon filter, 4in inline fan, cheap LED light, nothing crazy. I lined my room with 1/2in foam board. I was hoping that this would create a descent sound barrier. The day my equipment finally...

A marijuana medical dispensary in Wareham may not be a done deal after all. The Wareham Board of Health voted Wednesday to seek an audience soon with the town's Board of Selectmen to discuss grave concerns its members have about a marijuana dispensary scheduled to open in the community later...

Vancouver's board of variance, which typically hears appeals on garages and back porches, found itself in unfamiliar territory Wednesday as it considered appeals from pot pedlars for relief from city decisions to snuff their trade in marijuana. Proponents for Cannpassion, Van City Medicinal...

A proposed urgency ordinance that would significantly tighten restrictions on growing medical marijuana in Sutter County failed to pass a Board of Supervisors vote amid concerns that it lacked any methods of enforcement. Before a standing-room-only audience Tuesday night, the board heard 31...

The Augusta Board of Education has approved a policy that would allow students to use medical marijuana to manage various medical conditions. The Kennebec Journal reports the new policy was written as a means to guide school staff members and was based on a model from the Maine School...

California's new medical cannabis law will put the state in charge of tracking each marijuana plant from "seed to sale." But the Brown administration and the state's independent tax board are at odds about who will oversee it. The state Board of Equalization is preparing to do the job...