marijuana

The mainstreaming of marijuana is about to get huge boost. Recreational marijuana sales will launch in three states next year, including the biggest one of all: California. It's already for sale in five states, but the addition of a legal retail marijuana market in California, with its...

Between the launch of cannabis-centric road races a few years back, the opening of the world's first cannabis gym in San Francisco earlier this year, and unofficial estimations that upwards of 60% of pro-athletes in the NFL and NBA smoke weed, there's no denying we're entering a new era of what...

A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with trying to hide marijuana in the bushes at a courthouse before a hearing on a possible probation violation. Local media outlets reported that Lee County Sheriff Tracy Carter said 21-year-old Teon Shamal La'Shane Douglas of Sanford was...

A Buffalo man was convicted of a sole charge of conspiracy to possess, with intent to distribute marijuana. Arthur Clark, 29, was a courier for a commercial delivery service in the city when, between April and September of 2015, he conspired with five others to ship, receive and distribute...

Medical marijuana advocates and patients may soon find safe harbor in Muskegon as city commissioners mull over an ordinance allowing growers and dispensaries to operate in a special district off Seaway Drive. The proposed ordinance would allow growers, processors, safety compliance...

Four people were arrested and an estimated $778,000 worth of marijuana plants were seized when Yolo County sheriff's deputies served search warrants at three properties this week. Although marijuana cultivation in allowed in the county under certain circumstances, it requires a county...

A group called Let Lansing Vote filed petitions Friday afternoon seeking a referendum on the city's a new medical marijuana ordinance. The ordinance for commercial properties was approved by City Council last month and was supposed to go into effect on Saturday. If the group turned in enough...

An illegal marijuana grow operation was shut down Thursday after police saw several plants growing in the backyard of a home they were at earlier in the day. Police were executing an arrest warrant at a home in the 300 block of W. Adams Street early in the morning Oct. 5,when they saw several...

Canada Post, the Canadian crown corporation that is the nation's main postal service, has said it will start delivering marijuana after legalization. The announcement was made at a conference in Montreal yesterday, with a representative from Canada Post saying the company will deliver...

Nearly 3,000 growing marijuana plants and thousands of pounds of drying and processed marijuana was seized from a remote Calaveras County location near Copperopolis this week. The plants were located on several parcels that were under review by the county's planning department as commercial...

Following in the footsteps of their closest neighbors, city leaders are slamming the door on the cannabis industry – at least temporarily. The Planning Commission recommended that Pleasant Hill allow two medical marijuana stores to operate in retail business districts with a conditional use...

Cicero police came upon the largest marijuana growth operation they've seen when they searched a home Thursday, officials said. Inside, they found 68 full grown marijuana plants -- each about 4 feet tall -- and several plastic buckets of dried plants ready to be harvested and packaged...

North Carolina homeowners were shocked to find nearly $30,000 in marijuana inside a package that was delivered at their doorstep. The box, delivered Wednesday to a home in Charlotte, contained 15 1-pound bricks of marijuana, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said. According to WSOC 9, it’s the...

State legislators, apparently attempting this summer to make it easier for community leaders to prevent marijuana stores from opening within their borders, may have actually established a system whereby cities enjoy an easier path to a ban than small towns like Stoneham. On Monday night...

Legalizing marijuana can lead to increased use of the drug, according to a French study that looked at consumption levels in two US states and Uruguay in the midst of a debate over France's narcotics laws. The study conducted by France's National Institute of Higher Security and Justice...

Whether it's your religious, right-wing aunt or the Attorney General of the United States, people love making unsubstantiated claims about marijuana. And unfortunately a large enough people in the population believe these myths to prevent cannabis legalization. But which lies are the most...

The Sunnyvale City Council voted unanimously to ban outdoor personal and commercial marijuana cultivation and non-medical commercial marijuana activity within the city at its Sept. 26 meeting. The unanimous vote also included restrictions on indoor personal marijuana use such as limiting the...

Richard Hackler recently drove five-plus hours round trip from his home in Vero Beach to St. Petersburg, hoping to find out if medical marijuana could help with his post traumatic stress disorder. But the doctor he traveled to see seemed just as uninformed as the other physicians he had...

Georgia junior linebacker Natrez Patrick has been arrested on two misdemeanor charges, including marijuana possession – his second such arrest since joining the team. Patrick was booked into the Athens-Clarke County jail at 11:37 p.m. on Thursday night on charges of possession of less than...

Merced County Sheriff's deputies heard a buzzing as they approached a home Thursday night south of Delhi. The sound, as deputies found out after investigating the home in the 16300 block of Oak Street, came from generators helping run machines to grow 1,692 budding marijuana plants, Sgt Ray...