marijuana

The narcotics officer stood on a windswept ridge near the Oregon border and surveyed the fields cut into the hills below, a landscape resembling a lost piece of wine country. The terraces of Siskiyou County, however, were planted in cannabis. More than 1,500 Hmong farmers in the past two...

Hospitals, nursing homes and residences for disabled New Yorkers are among facilities that could obtain medical marijuana for their patients and residents under emergency regulations issued a week ago by the state Health Department. The facilities would be deemed "caregivers" under the state...

Gov. Rick Scott this summer signed into law a bill that implemented the Florida Medical Marijuana Legalization Initiative, known as Amendment 2, which mandated an expansion of the state's medical cannabis program. One requirement of that was the creation of a panel to review all physician...

Would-be medical marijuana users in Florida say they're waiting as long as three months to get state-issued cards they need to get the drug. The state agency that gives out the cards is hiring more workers to cut down on wait times. Florida's Office of Medical Marijuana Use says it should...

The city of Los Angeles may make it more difficult for residents to challenge marijuana dispensary business licenses. The Los Angeles City Council is considering legislation that would only allow individuals who work, live or own property within 500 feet of a marijuana dispensary business to...

How ironic is it that conservatives who routinely criticize the federal government's allegedly heavy-handed intrusions into state and local affairs seem to have no problem with such interventions when the overreach happens to advance policies dear to their own hearts? This year we've seen a...

A Dunkirk man faces drug charges following a raid Wednesday of a Town of Pomfret residence where police confiscated 138 ounces of marijuana. Hammad R. Zaidi, 46, was charged with criminal possession of marijuana and faces additional charges, according to the Chautauqua County Sheriff's office...

At least seven farms have been destroyed in the blazes, destruction that comes ahead of legal marijuana sales beginning in the state. Deadly wildfires that continue to rip through Northern California are scorching marijuana farms. Multiple wind-driven fires have destroyed thousands of...

Growth in the marijuana industry has been incredible over the past few years, and investors are really beginning to take notice. Over the trailing one-year period, more marijuana stocks than not have seen their share prices at least double in value. At the heart of these surging stock...

With two weeks to go before lawmakers vote on new marijuana legislation, state analysts have yet to calculate the fiscal impact of Maine's adult-use cannabis bill. Lawmakers tasked with setting up the new recreational market had projected Maine would collect about $21.4 million a year in...

The wildfires in Northern California are not only wreaking havoc on residential areas. The blazes are also sending marijuana farms up in smoke, CNN reported. The fires have destroyed several farms in Mendocino County, just before recreational sales begin in California. A lack of insurance...

Kentucky Sen. Dan Seum, R-Fairdale, has said he plans to introduce a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana. With that as a backdrop, members of the state's Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, state workers and members of the public debated the pros and cons of marijuana...

With less than six months to go, at least one proposal to legalize medicinal use of marijuana in Missouri appears to be in a strong position to get on statewide ballots next year. New Approach Missouri says it already has collected 100,000 signatures from registered voters, and expects to...

Fatal fires that have consumed nearly 200,000 acres in Northern California, devastating the region's vineyards particularly in Napa and Sonoma Counties, are also taking a toll on a fledgling industry just months before its debut: recreational marijuana. Many of the region's farms, including...

Yvonne DeLaRosa Green was awarded the first cannabis business license for Los Angeles County for her dispensary 99 High Tide Collective in Malibu. The city and county of Los Angeles are expected to become the capital of cannabis once the state of California's regulated adult-use market is up and...

With the Opioid Epidemic taking over America, will Medical Marijuana dispensaries begin to replace pharmacies in providing adequate pain medication? It is seeming like more of a possibility, as scientists are allocating more time and money to study marijuana's effects on pain, dispensaries are...

Learn about the expanding marijuana industry, meet people in the business, hear former Mexico President Vicente Fox's views on legalization, or just breathe deeply of cannabis culture. The third annual Southwest Cannabis Convention and Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center will let you do all...

A third of teens think smoking marijuana and driving is legal, according to a new study. Out of 2,800 teens surveyed, 33% said driving under the influence of marijuana is legal in states where it's recreational. More than 20% of teens reported it's common among their friends. Parent...

Last year, we told you about the tragic death of Jack Splitt, the fifteen-year-old namesake of Jack's Law, a landmark bill that allowed young medical marijuana patients in Colorado, like him, to take their cannabis-based medication at school. More than a year later, Mark Pedersen, who made MMJ...

Fourteen Potential Colorado marijuana business owners put their names in a lottery for the opportunity to open a retail marijuana store in Palisade. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports the bingo-style drawing was held Wednesday at the Palisade Civic Center to determine which of the...