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A record-breaking estimated 30,000 California medical pot farmers, family, friends and fans swamped Santa Rosa for a gargantuan marijuana festival dubbed the Emerald Cup at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds over the weekend. The agricultural competition featured more than 1,100 flowers, extracts...

Recreational marijuana is expected to become legal for adults 21 and over in Massachusetts on Dec. 15, voters having overwhelming approved the measure Nov. 8. Here are answers to key questions about legalization: Where can I buy? Short answer: Nowhere legally, really. It's still illegal to...

A licensed Canadian pot grower has announced it's teaming up with the former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), Phil Fontaine, to help give First Nations communities across the country access to medical marijuana. Cronos Group, formerly PharmaCan Capital, said Tuesday it...

About a month ago, on an unseasonably warm Wednesday evening in the courtyard the Oakland Museum, partygoers in blazers and floor-length gowns mingled, sipping champagne and martinis. A DJ spun remixes on a neon-lit stage. A photographer snapped photos. Tiki torches and triple-decker towers of...

The state of Florida approved the use of medical marijuana this week, and Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills said coupled with an NFLPA study of the drug's pain-relief possibilities, it's a good sign for players. Stills told Joe Schad of the Palm Beach Post that he thinks marijuana could...

The state of Florida approved the use of medical marijuana this week, and Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills said coupled with an NFLPA study of the drug's pain-relief possibilities, it's a good sign for players. Stills told Joe Schad of the Palm Beach Post that he thinks marijuana could...

Did a powerful Republican in the Virginia General Assembly open the door - just a crack - to decriminalization of marijuana in the Old Dominion? Let's go to the tape - or, in this case, the Virginian-Pilot, which quoted state Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. appearing at a meeting on Tuesday with...

Diehards still watching broadcast TV may remember CBS as the "Tiffany Network," and the venerable "60 Minutes" newsmag as its crown jewel. Sadly, the show's pre-election curtain-raiser about historic votes to legalize marijuana felt more like shopping for cubic zirconia knockoffs at the strip...

U.S. voters next month in five states, including bellwether California, are poised to expand the legal use of recreational marijuana to almost a quarter of the American population, a move that could prove to be one of the most consequential shifts in U.S drug policy since the 1930s. Passage...

Kingman — With the general election less than four weeks out, the stakes are rising over legalization of recreational marijuana use in Arizona with each side ponying up about $3 million, an advocate for Proposition 205 said Tuesday. Television ads supporting legalization are telling voters they...

In "Jesse Ventura’s Marijuana Manifesto," the former Minnesota Governor piledrives the issue of weed's long prohibition in America. Today, Ventura will be discussing the book and signing copies of his legalization tract, during a 4:00 p.m. appearance at the Roseville Barnes & Noble outlet...

If medical marijuana isn't already the law in your state, there's probably a ballot initiative coming to your polling station or a bill working its way through your legislature that would make it so. More importantly, the majority of Americans already have the legal right to seek out the drug to...

If medical marijuana isn't already the law in your state, there's probably a ballot initiative coming to your polling station or a bill working its way through your legislature that would make it so. More importantly, the majority of Americans already have the legal right to seek out the drug to...

New, stricter, rules on the labeling of cannabis edibles have taken effect in Colorado after complaints from many that marijuana edibles look much like regular edibles and it's hard for children to tell the difference. Authorities in CO - one of four states that have legalized marijuana...

Pigs get fat, hogs got slaughtered, and employers who unreasonably try to run the private lives of their employees eventually pay for it. Amid efforts to understand why the NFL's TV audience is shrinking, there's one reason that unnecessarily is keeping some of the best young players off the...

Ganja. Pot. Weed. Mary Jane. Cannabis. These are the many names we know marijuana by. It might be illegal but it's also cheap and some even claim that it's healthy. So why is it illegal in the first place? Until 1985, all forms of cannabis-hashish, ganja and bhang were legally sold in India...

The annual International Cannabis Business Conference is steadily approaching this fall, gathering cannabis businesspeople, activists and allies alike to discuss the future of marijuana-related businesses as legalization measures continue to proliferate throughout North America. Experts from...

Steak and red wine, fish and white wine, any food and marijuana. That's generally the less informed opinion on what to pair with what, but over in Colorado (of course) there's a pot sommelier taking things to the next level. His name is Philip Wolf, and his company 'Cultivating Spirits' is...

While some states may never see legal marijuana stores, barring some huge shift at the federal level, millions of Americans are now free to peruse retail cannabis shops. Though it's only available in a few states as of right now, legal cannabis is available - as are the many derivatives, like...

Regular readers of this column - and Jah bless all six of you - know that when I'm not sitting in my estate in the West Hills dictating this column to a bank of interns, I have a business that works in several arenas of the cannabis industry, with a focus on event production. Seventeen-year-old...