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The Legislature, Gov. Charlie Baker and Treasurer Deborah Goldberg continue to play a game of cat-and-mouse when it comes to marijuana regulation. On Nov. 8, 2016, Massachusetts voters approved a ballot law legalizing possession and use of marijuana, and authorizing a retail pot industry...

Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) says the U.S. is turning into a "sanctuary country" because Congress just voted to prevent the Justice Department from prosecuting individuals who sell marijuana in states that have already legalized the drug by defunding its efforts to go after those individuals...

More than 500 people signed up to buy state-vetted cannabis in Uruguay on the first day of registration for the first such scheme in the world, authorities said Wednesday. The state launched the register on Tuesday to log users who will be able to buy 10 grams of the drug a week in...

A Senate Judiciary Committee moved without opposition a bill to the Senate floor that prevents law enforcement officers from arresting medical marijuana users in Louisiana. It also recommended a bill that would add several designer drugs to the Schedule I classification on the Uniform Controlled...

Last Tuesday, two New York Assembly committees passed a bill that would expand the state's medical marijuana program. Passage of this measure would further nullify the federal prohibition on cannabis in practice. Assm. Richard Gottfried (D-NYC) introduced Assembly Bill 4277 (A4277), along with...

A Delaware judge is putting lawmakers on notice that they may want to take another look at a law that still makes it illegal for someone to have a handgun while carrying a decriminalized amount of marijuana. In a recent ruling, Superior Court Judge Paul R. Wallace pointed out that the...

Forks Twp., Pa. - Joining other municipalities across the Lehigh Valley, Forks Township is taking steps to control the location of possible medical marijuana businesses. Supervisors Thursday night voted unanimously to advertise an ordinance that would regulate where medical marijuana growers...

Gov. Dennis Daugaard has approved a bill meant to allow people in South Dakota with a prescription to use a non-intoxicating compound found in marijuana if it's approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Daugaard on Friday signed the bill. It excludes cannabidiol, if it receives FDA...

BANGOR, Maine - Federal officials are set to announce how $1.1 million in forfeited money from a massive marijuana grow operation will be distributed to Maine law enforcement agencies. The marijuana operation was concealed in the woods and bogs in Washington County. Drug agents in 2009 seized...

A legislative battle over recreational marijuana could be on the way in Boston, with public hearings poised to begin. State lawmakers are set on holding hearings, starting next week, to address possible tweaks to the recreational cannabis law approved by Massachusetts voters in November, a move...

Lawmakers appear to have reached a compromise Thursday that would expand Georgia's medical marijuana law. The agreement over Senate Bill 16 would add six illnesses and conditions eligible for treatment with medical marijuana in Georgia to include Alzheimer's disease, AIDS, autism...

Marijuana activists are responding to what they call a "false narrative" that the new marijuana legalization law requires legislative fixes. Activists are urging the new marijuana committee to focus instead on issues not addressed in the ballot law. "The new law requires no legislative fixes,"...

Marijuana activists responded Monday to what it called a "false narrative" that the marijuana legalization law passed last year by voters requires legislative fixes, and urged the new marijuana committee to focus instead on issues not addressed in the ballot law. About four months after...

Massachusetts' top marijuana regulator, Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg, is asking the Trump administration for an explanation after it raised the prospect last month of a federal crackdown on recreational pot, which remains illegal under federal law even as eight states have legalized the drug...

Despite the Trump administration’s proposed crackdown on recreational marijuana, some Republicans are coming to terms with the fact that medical weed is here and it’s not going anywhere. Trump’s Department of Justice announced plans for greater federal enforcement of laws against recreational...

Carson City – Gov. Brian Sandoval says the state must get ready for allowing voter-approved recreational marijuana, despite the uncertainty of whether the federal government will crack down on the possession and sale of the drug. Sandoval, who opposed recreational marijuana, named a 19-member...

Pitt alumna Sarah Carlins is making Pennsylvania a little greener, one court case at a time. As chair of Houston Harbaugh's Health Care Law Department in Pittsburgh, Carlins provides legal counsel and representation to business owners, patients, employees and shareholders in the medical...

If your dog got sick, and marijuana could help him, you'd have it in his food bowl tonight – not tomorrow – tonight." That statement – or a slight variation thereof – was made dozens of times by John Morgan while he campaigned for medical marijuana over the last four years. John is rarely...

Los Angeles – From marijuana-laced candy to body lotion infused with marijuana, this controversial plant is becoming a big business in the United States as more states make it mainstream. Marijuana, also known as cannabis, is now legal in 28 U.S. states for either medical or recreational use...

A group of pro-pot federal lawmakers have teamed up to announce the formation of the first-ever Congressional Cannabis Caucus. The bipartisan effort will work on legislation related to marijuana legalization and regulation, proving that perhaps Congress is taking the issue of marijuana...