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At least 30 companies want to get into the legal mass production of cannabis in the Netherlands, according to the mayor of the southern city of Breda, whose council is among two dozen vying to take part in government-backed trials designed to cut criminals out of supplying cannabis-selling...

It was a big deal in the world of marijuana when California voters passed Proposition 64 in Nov. 2016. On Jan. 1, the state's recreational pot market comes online. Here's an overview of what you need to know about weed in California, for Jan. 1 and beyond. What are the highlights of the...

Regarding the Nov. 16 Herald story about the pot shop being robbed. It will continue as long as the state Liquor and Cannabis Control Board refuses to allow any pot shop to have uniformed, armed guards protecting the employees or merchandise. Even allowing any uniformed or plain clothes guards...

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) announced Friday that 40 LCBO-run stores in Ontario will begin selling cannabis after legalization next year. Located in 14 cities across Ontario, staff from the cannabis dispensing LCBO shops will be meeting with members from the Ministry of Finance...

City officials are rethinking a proposed moratorium on recreational marijuana shops and retailers. Councilors Peter Juaire and Kathleen Robey suggested the temporary ban this spring after speaking with a number of residents concerned about recreational marijuana shops being located near their...

The Department of City Planning drew up the maps based on proposed buffer-zone rules that prescribe an 800-foot distance between most pot retailers and schools, parks, libraries, churches and other dispensaries. That's larger than the average city block. Earlier this month, the Los Angeles...

Carbondale trustees are leaning toward eliminating the town's cap on recreational marijuana shops, while also tightening the time frame that newly licensed shops have to get up and running. This discussion came up during a Tuesday work session after a couple instances of marijuana businesses...

The City Council will consider putting a referendum on the ballot to ban the sale of recreational marijuana. Local attorney William Barry put forth a petition to ban marijuana retail shops. However, he wrote it before the state had passed a reworked version of the law that requires such a...

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...

After months of indecision, lawmakers have finally agreed on how to tax recreational marijuana. It's not the 12 percent tax voters approved last November. But some residents think it could be enough to stop the black market in marijuana. Lawmakers on Monday reached an agreement on...

The number of 'coffee shops' in the Netherlands is continuing to fall but the closure rate has slowed, new official figures show. Last year there were 573 outlets licensed to sell cannabis, 18 fewer than two years earlier and 41 less than the number in 2012. The figures, announced on...

The number of 'coffee shops' in the Netherlands is continuing to fall but the closure rate has slowed, new official figures show. Last year there were 573 outlets licensed to sell cannabis, 18 fewer than two years earlier and 41 less than the number in 2012. The figures, announced on...

There are a lot of marijuana stores in and around Medford. According to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, there are 10 cannabis retailers within Medford's city limits with another six just outside the city's boundaries. And from what we can tell, there are more pot shops getting ready to...

Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg says the legislature is looking to provide incentives to cities and towns who will allow the sale of recreational marijuana within their borders as the July 1 deadline for putting a bill on Gov. Charlie Baker's desk draws near. "Believe me, I am sweating...

Donnie Anderson says it took weeks of driving to count the pot dispensaries in City Council District 8, which covers much of South Central Los Angeles. The team found two shops granted "limited immunity" by the city, but they were vastly outnumbered by 133 of what Anderson calls "rogue shops."...

Can medical marijuana survive in a recreational marijuana world? With retail pot shops set to open next year in Massachusetts, advocates are worried that medical cannabis patients could be forced to pay higher prices for the drug, lose access to specialized preparations, or simply end up...

Danvers town officials are considering a temporary ban on allowing recreational marijuana shops in town through December 2018. The moratorium would allow more time for the town to address the potential impacts of recreational marijuana in Danvers, consider the Cannabis Control Board's...

Detroit – It's been a year since Detroit put laws in place to regulate medical marijuana shops and as of today, only two have been approved to operate. The strict set of zoning and licensing requirements adopted in 2015 by the City Council went into effect last March. That's when all shops –...

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...

An Amsterdam cannabis cafe or coffeeshop which can trace its roots back to 1973 will open for the last time on Saturday because of city rules preventing the sale of marijuana close to schools. Mellow Yellow, now on the Vijzelstraat, first opened in a squatted bakery on the Weesperzijde. It...