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Buying marijuana in Seaside is still illegal under city ordinance, but city government is already working out how to make money off of future pot sales when and if the rules change. California voters said yes to Proposition 64 in November making it legal for adults 21 and older to use...

Pro-marijuana activist David Wisniewski pointed out repeatedly last year that Prop 205, the adult-use marijuana initiative, did not have the full support of the cannabis-consuming community. Now he's running a new legalization campaign that has the same problem. The Safer Arizona 2018...

Weighing in on how Nevada should test people for stoned driving, lawmakers advanced a measure to eliminate urine samples as a viable measure for police to show a driver to be impaired by marijuana. Under the bipartisan proposal, law enforcement officers would continue using blood tests to prove...

Adults in Vermont are one step closer toward being able to consume marijuana without worrying about going to jail after the House passed a measure this week aimed at legalizing recreational cannabis. Although only by a slim margin, the bill was approved with a 71 to 74 vote Tuesday. The bill...

Pro-marijuana groups in Michigan submitted language to the Board of State Canvassers on Friday for a ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana. If the measure makes it to the November 2018 ballot, Michigan would become the ninth state to fully legalize cannabis for adult use...

Lincoln – As expected, a legislative committee on Friday advanced a proposal to legalize medical marijuana in Nebraska. The Legislature's Judiciary Committee advanced Legislative Bill 622, sponsored and prioritized by State Sen. Anna Wishart of Lincoln, 6-1. The bill is sure to be...

Following a lengthy discussion at the end of Tuesday's regular meeting, the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors voted to appoint District 4 Supervisor Dennis Mills and District 2 Supervisor Jack Garamendi to an ad hoc committee that will advise the board on a pending and possible cannabis...

Topeka, Kan. – A Kansas Senate committee has endorsed a measure that would let doctors and physicians prescribe and dole out what's described as "non-intoxicating" medicine derived from a marijuana chemical compound. The Wichita Eagle reports that senators initially were supposed to vote on a...

The state Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill legalizing possession, with a doctor's approval, of CBD oil, a marijuana extract used to treat seizures that does not produce a high. The vote sends the bill, which already passed the state Senate, to the desk of Gov. Scott Walker...

It's estimated to rival the entire state of Colorado's billion-dollar industry, with perhaps 1,000 retail shops plus untold cultivators, delivery services, testing labs, edibles bakers and concentrate makers operating in the city — even before legalized recreational marijuana sales kick in next...

For years, supporters of marijuana legalization have argued that local governments stood the most to gain as it would allow them to regulate cannabis business – and then tax them. But now that both the medicinal use and the recreational use of cannabis have been legalized in California and...

The Rio Dell City Council on Tuesday evening will discuss options for placing a cannabis tax measure on the ballot. The council will also receive the mid-year financial report and a public works update before setting priorities and hearing an update on the city hall ADA porch project...

Indianapolis - An Indiana measure that would allow some epileptic people to be treated with oil derived from cannabis plants has cleared the state Senate. Indiana is among the last states to forbid even the issue of marijuana extracts that are low in THC and high in cannabidiol, or CBD, the...

San Bernadino - Two separate groups filed lawsuits last week challenging Measure O, the initiative citizens approved in November to allow marijuana dispensaries in the city. The city hasn't yet implemented the measure, and City Attorney Gary Saenz said the lawsuits' existence will likely...

Anyone who has read the 23-page initiated measure providing for medical marijuana has to agree that when the Legislature did the right thing when it suspended the measure's effective date until July 1. The detail required to create such a program lends itself more to the normal legislative...

It's a brave new world for the California marijuana industry after state voters in November approved the drug for recreational consumption. It's also a wild and unruly world as an industry that has forever operated in the shadows steps out into the light for the first time. Prop. 64, which...

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There's a very important measure pertaining to marijuana legalization on the March 7 city ballot, but you might not be familiar with it. The election season instead has been dominated by Measure S, which if approved would curb most major development in Los Angeles for two years. That initiative...

Troy – An Ohio city has rejected a medical marijuana ordinance for the second time. The Dayton Daily News reports that the Troy City Council defeated a measure to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in a 4-3 vote on Monday night. Three dispensaries would have been granted rights to operate...

A cannabis industry trade organization Friday hailed as "comprehensive and inclusive" a proposition on the Los Angeles March 7 election ballot that would restore the city's ability to develop regulations for marijuana businesses. Proposition M, which was placed on the ballot by the City...