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If you're an American living in a legal weed state, more than likely you'd have a better chance of finding someone to recommend, grow and sell you an eighth of Granddaddy Purple Kush before you found the perfect dental hygienist to clean your teeth. That's because the legal marijuana...

On July 1, Shango Premium in Las Vegas opened its doors for recreational customer sales one minute after midnight. The+Source dispensary welcomed State Senator Tick Segerblom to make the store's first purchase, a pre-rolled joint of his namesake strain, Segerblom Haze. Nevada’s cannabis market...

The movement to legalize marijuana notched a new victory with Nevada becoming the latest state to make recreational weed legal as of Saturday. At least half of U.S. states have legalized pot for either recreational or medical purposes. With polls showing record high support for legal...

Just like that, Mexico joined Canada this month in making medical marijuana legal nationwide. And the Canadian Parliament is considering making adult-use marijuana legal across the nation by mid-2018. All of this could potentially put legal marijuana businesses in the United States far behind...

Canada has a marijuana problem: The country is running out of legal weed for both medical and–soon–recreational users. The government is planning to make recreational marijuana legal no later than July of 2018, but politicians and some analysts are worried about adequate supply. Cam Mingay...

Alberta's conservative opposition parties are concerned about the tight timeframe for cannabis legalization. NDP Finance Minister Joe Ceci said last week that despite major decisions needing to be made, Alberta will be ready with a regulatory regime and won't ask Ottawa for an extension to...

The Alaska Marijuana Control Board will discuss three different options for on-site marijuana consumption proposed by board members at its next meeting. The Alaska Journal of Commerce reports the board will meet July 11-14 in Fairbanks, to discuss proposals by board member Loren Jones...

A big issue involving medical marijuana has emerged in the past year: Many people prefer using marijuana for their condition rather than opioids. Former NFL and NBA players have come forward to say that both leagues should allow players to at least try marijuana for pain management, given the...

Recreational marijuana -- the kind you smoke without a doctor's note -- wasn't legal anywhere in the United States five years ago. Since then, voters in eight states and Washington, D.C., have given it the green light. Sales of legal pot grew to $6.6 billion in 2016, according to New...

As North Dakota's hemp industry soars, legal questions have kept producers from making one of the crop's most desirable derivatives. That product is cannabidiol, or CBD, a non-psychoactive substance derived from cannabis plants, which has been said to help people with seizures and anxiety...

The City Council's Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee Wednesday will consider a handful of proposals designed to toughen enforcement against illegal marijuana dispensaries in San Diego, including a scheme under which customers could be targeted for buying pot from an unlicensed...

Marijuana is legal in eight states and the District of Columbia, and medical marijuana is legal in nearly 30 (although often under quite restrictive regulatory schemes). Between the two, legal weed is generating total annual sales of between $4 billion and $4.5 billion. But legal marijuana...

With Pennsylvania well on its way toward implementing a medical marijuana program, dozens of lawyers in the state are preparing for an explosion of legal work related to cannabis. The blossoming industry is reminiscent of the surge in legal work that grew out of the Marcellus Shale play...

U.S. consumers will spend somewhere between $5 billion and $6 billion on legal marijuana in 2017, according to a new report released this month. By 2021, that number could reach a staggering $17 billion. The numbers come courtesy of the Marijuana Business Factbook 2017, issued in May by...

In a first for the legal marijuana industry, a prominent venture capital firm has made moves to cash in. On May 23, Hound Labs, an Oakland-based startup that makes a breathalyzer for marijuana, announced a new $8.1 million round of funding led by Benchmark Capital. In the past, the Silicon...

The legal marijuana industry brought in upwards of $4 billion in sales in 2016, according to a new report from the Marijuana Business Daily. And small-town America is riding the high. In the eight US states where recreational marijuana is legal, the marijuana "green rush" has breathed new...

Oregon lawmakers have taken steps to protect customers of the state's legal cannabis industry from exposing their identities and personal information to the federal government. Anticipating interference by federal drug agents under the Trump administration's plan to crack down on cannabis, a...

Advocates for a "greener" third-party were in Scottsbluff Thursday and Friday, collecting signatures to get the Legal Marijuana Now party on the ballot in Nebraska. Legal Marijuana Now is a political third-party in the United States established in 1998 to oppose drug prohibition. Its goal is...

The state of Delaware is on a trajectory to legalize recreational use of marijuana, having approved medical marijuana use by prescription and decriminalized other uses. The First State also has an energized and organized citizenry lobbying on behalf of full legalization. If that happens...

For years, there have been rumors that North Korea is a "weed-smoker's paradise." Cannabis is said to grow wildly there, and people can reportedly buy it in large, bazaar-style marketplaces and smoke it wherever they like. But marijuana's legal status in North Korea is hazy. An...