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In the latest step to establish a legal medical marijuana industry in Ohio, the state received 370 applications for dispensary licenses, including 50 from six area counties: 19 in Montgomery, 11 in Butler, 10 in Clark, five in Warren, four in Greene, one in Champaign. The next step will be to...

California released long-awaited rules Thursday that will govern the state's emerging legal marijuana industry, while potentially opening the way for larger-scale cultivation that some fear could strangle small-farm growers. The thicket of emergency regulations will allow the state to begin...

The legislature is considering a bill that would limit medical marijuana growing licenses to 1,500 plants per location, something that's the exact opposite of what the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs has recommended as it crafts regulations for medical marijuana facilities...

Frustrated senators grilled Florida's pot czar Tuesday, demanding explanations for why his office missed a legislatively mandated deadline to issue new medical-marijuana licenses and why ailing patients are stuck waiting for state-issued ID cards. Christian Bax, executive director of the...

Residents in Battle Creek are being asked for their input on whether the city should allow businesses to seek medical marijuana permits. The state is going to start allowing five different licenses starting December 15 at the discretion of local governments. The city wants to know what its...

Those interested in obtaining medical marijuana licenses for certain commercial establishments can get applications at City Clerk Chris Swope's office starting Friday, although dispensaries must wait. The city's new medical marijuana ordinance takes effect Saturday and sets up licensing for...

Health officials won't be able to meet a legislatively mandated Tuesday deadline to hand out five new medical-marijuana licenses, the head of the state's Office of Medical Marijuana Use said Friday. Christian Bax, the marijuana office's executive director, blamed the delay on Hurricane Irma...

The state is opening up the medical marijuana business to big-time grow operations, according to an advisory released Thursday. When the Legislature passed medical marijuana bills last year, it created three classes of licenses for growers: Class A - up to 500 plants; Class B - up to 1,000...

Officials in Gibsonburg and Oak Harbor originally thought they would know this month if companies would be getting state medical marijuana cultivation licenses to build new facilities in those villages. Instead, the two villages will have to wait a little while longer to see if their...

Two initiatives that would amend Detroit's medical marijuana ordinance to allow dispensaries to open near liquor stores, and grow facilities to operate legally, will appear on the November ballot, after a Wayne County circuit judge's ruling earlier this week. If approved by voters in...

Denver’s voter-authorized program to allow social marijuana use at some businesses is ready for launch, city officials said Thursday as they announced they were ready to accept applications. But the initial batch of license requests for the first-of-its-kind program may not come in immediately...

The Medical Cannabis Association of Texas recently sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott asking him to expand the number of approved licenses for medical marijuana dispensaries in the state. Under the Compassionate Use Act that Abbott signed into law two years ago, the Department of Public Safety...

Thanks to relatively new medical marijuana laws, Ohio plans to issue 24 cultivator licenses across the state (half for small growers and half for larger ones). So far the Ohio Department of Commerce has received 185 applications for licenses, but they likely won't distribute them until November...

Two more medical-marijuana businesses have joined seven already licensed by the state, and another three are in the works, as the potentially lucrative industry continues to develop. The Florida Department of Health this week issued licenses to Tornello Landscape, also known as “3 Boys Farm,”...

There will not be a special legislative session to address charges of racial inequity in Maryland's burgeoning medical marijuana industry. The General Assembly's Democratic presiding officers have officially rejected the call from black lawmakers to summon the full legislature to Annapolis...

With Nevada suffering a shortage of legalized marijuana, California's state pot czar said Wednesday that efforts are being made in her state to make sure sufficient licenses go to farmers, testers and distributors to supply retailers. Providing temporary, four-month licenses to support some...

Ohio has received 185 applications to grow marijuana in the state's fledgling medical marijuana program. The state deadline to apply for 24 grow licenses was Friday, more than a year after Gov. John Kasich signed Ohio's medical marijuana law. Other businesses are preparing to apply for...

Nevada Taxation Department officials deny they are trying an end run on a Carson City judge’s order saying only licensed alcohol purveyors can be issued marijuana distributor licenses. Taxation spokeswoman Stephanie Klapstein said in a statement that the department will move forward with plans...

Recreational sales of marijuana in Nevada may not begin next month after all. A judge added to the uncertainty Tuesday when he extended a temporary order barring the state from issuing pot distribution licenses to existing medical marijuana dispensaries so they can begin recreational sales...

At least three Texas-based cannabis companies are preparing to battle the state Department of Public Safety over its awarding of provisional licenses to dispense medical marijuana. Chad Sykes, founder of Indoor Harvest in Houston, said his company pioneered technology that has been embraced...