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What if someone decides to develop a retail marijuana shop in Boothbay Harbor? A vote in November could make it possible. This is the first article of a two-part series. The Boothbay Register spoke with five companies from across the U.S., about the business and safety aspects a company...

The town of Deer Isle is considering a moratorium on retail marijuana establishments. Lawmakers and regulators are rolling out the legalization of voter-approved recreational marijuana. Possession of certain amounts of marijuana became legal this year, while the state approved a moratorium...

Gov. Charlie Baker will sign into law a tax hike on retail marijuana sales and new restrictions on marketing and packaging of pot products Friday. The move comes after the Legislature last week reached a deal to overhaul the 2016 ballot law legalizing pot in Massachusetts. The bill...

At the Joyce Daze Wild Blackberry Festival in 2015, area residents were asked in a survey to list the issues they were most concerned about. The No. 1 priority that emerged was to "try to get drugs out of the area," said Joyce resident Connie Beauvais, a Port of Port Angeles commissioner and...

There may be a retail apocalypse going on, but you wouldn't know it from Washington state's retail sales in 2016. Taxable sales from retailers in this state increased 6 percent to $63.2 billion in 2016, according to the state Department of Revenue. And the type of store that grew sales the...

The Marijuana Legalization Implementation Committee continues to work on regulating growers, sellers, and producers, how to protect public safety, and how to tax cannabis. Tuesday, the panel tackled the requirements for retail marijuana production facilities. Lawmakers are considering...

Retail marijuana businesses would be relegated to the Maine Mall area and outer Broadway near the Scarborough town line under a preliminary zoning proposal that the City Council will begin reviewing Monday. Municipal staff members drafted the proposal as a starting point for workshop...

The broader legalization of marijuana and the upcoming start of retail sales could lead to an evolution of the state's medical marijuana program, Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders said Thursday. Four years after approving medicinal marijuana at the ballot, voters in November...

As differences over pot shop restrictions burned a medical marijuana bill to ashes in Tallahassee, one of Florida's largest legal cannabis operators courted millions of dollars from new investors and touted a lucrative plan to open dozens of storefronts around the state. A private equity...

Las Vegas – Nevada officials say getting the state's retail marijuana industry started will cost about $14 million over the next two years. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Department of Taxation Director Deonne Contine said Thursday that most of that money will be used to pay...

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The implementation of fully legalized marijuana in Nevada should be tough. Nevada's nascent medical marijuana program is run by the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. However, Nevada's new recreational marijuana program will be run by a different agency, the Nevada Department of...

Some of the Kenai Peninsula's marijuana operations are up, running and trying to integrate themselves into the business community at large. Since last summer, eight marijuana businesses have opened on the peninsula, and nine more are in the works. Most of them are outside the cities – the...

Ludlow - The Ludlow Board of Selectmen has joined the growing list of Massachusetts municipalities that support a moratorium on the retail sale of marijuana in the commonwealth, which legalized recreational use of the drug in December. Selectmen on Tuesday voted to send a letter in support of...

Craig – Craig City Council will take a final vote Tuesday on proposed ordinances that would put retail marijuana on the ballot for the city's April election. The ordinances cleared a first reading at City Council's Jan. 10 meeting by a 3-2 vote. Councilman Kent Nielson – who is also acting as...

The City of Fife has settled its longstanding legal battles with Greybeard Holdings over the city's moratorium on marijuana businesses. This comes after more than two years of hearings and appeals that have proven costly in attorneys' fees and the loss of potentially hundreds of thousands of...

Waterboro – Even as the Maine Legislature begins on Tuesday examination of a bill that would delay most aspects of the newly approved recreational marijuana law until February, 2018, Waterboro selectmen will soon mull whether to ban retail pot establishments altogether. While statewide the...

Clinton – The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday night unanimously voted to enact an emergency moratorium on retail marijuana establishments. The board held a public hearing on the moratorium in the selectmen's room of the Town Office, where roughly 20 residents came out for the item. The...

Retail marijuana sales and purchases are on hold in Douglas County, while a majority of businesses wait for inspections before they can sell recreationally. As of Jan. 1, businesses must possess a retail license to sell marijuana to the general public. That means four out of five stores in...

Karson Humiston knows how to help you get a job – and how to create your own. At 24, she's the CEO and founder of Vangst Talent Network (formerly Graduajana), a company she started in college. Vangst will be holding a career fair and product showcase in Denver on Thursday, January 19, to help...