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Sonoma County — Voters in unincorporated Sonoma County on Tuesday will consider approving a business tax on cultivation and sales of medical and non-medical cannabis to fund essential services including roads, public safety, fire services and housing. Measure A was placed on the special...

In the 28 states and the District of Columbia where marijuana use either for medical or recreational purposes is legal, state tax collections on legal retail sales is expected to reach $2.3 billion by 2020. That's growth of more than three times expected 2017 tax collections of around $745...

Little Rock, Ark. – Arkansas' Republican-dominated House has approved a proposal that would levy an extra 4 percent tax on marijuana. Republican Rep. Douglas House's bill was approved 77-2 on Thursday. It calls for adding the extra tax to the sale of marijuana. Cultivation facilities...

Santa Cruz - Revenues from Santa Cruz County's cannabis business tax, forecast to be $3.2 million this fiscal year, are falling short of expectations, according to a report to be discussed by county supervisors at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday at the county Governmental Center, 701 Ocean St. In a...

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...

Rep. Doug House, who's handling medical marijuana legislation, introduced a bill for an additional tax on marijuana sales today. The law already provided for assessment of the customary sales taxes on marijuana sales. House's bill would add a 4 percent special privilege tax on the gross...

An organization that represents Sonoma County marijuana growers has come out against a cannabis business tax set for a public vote in early March, altering the neutral position announced by the group last week. The nine-member board of the Sonoma County Growers Alliance voted Monday to oppose...

Denver - Grant money from the Department of Education and the tax on marijuana is going to help fight bullying. "It's a three-year grant program so the amount goes up a little bit each year," said Annie Trujillo from New America School in Lowry. Seventy-three schools across 14 school...

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...

The Sonoma County Growers Alliance, which represents some 260 cannabis cultivators and related business interests, is opposing the Measure A commercial cannabis tax scheduled for a Sonoma County vote on March 7. The top tax rate of 10 percent would jeopardize profitability of some cannabis...

Pueblo is the first community in the world to provide a cannabis-funded scholarship to every graduating high school senior. Applications are now being accepted for the first full-year of funding of the new program. The Board of Pueblo County Commissioners on Monday approved a contract between...

As Humboldt County and other counties throughout California begin taxing marijuana farmers and businesses, the question before both local and state regulators is what role the federal banking restrictions and marijuana prohibition will play in their ability to collect those taxes. Banks are...

Denver ― Budding scholars, rejoice. Commissioners in Pueblo County, Colorado, on Monday signed off on what they're calling the "world's first cannabis-funded scholarship." The fund of approximately $475,000 will be available for high school students in Pueblo County who wish to attend...

Santa Fe, N.M. — A bill that would legalize and tax marijuana in New Mexico is facing a road block. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the Senate Judiciary Committee held off on making a decision on the bill Friday. The bill's sponsor Sen. Gerald Ortiz Y Pino said he will work on a revised...

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...

Conservative voters are more likely to support legalizing medical marijuana than raising gas taxes, at least ahead of using a $1 billion surplus to pay for transportation projects. Fifty-two percent of Republicans surveyed recently by Tennesseans for Conservative Action say they support...

The Grover Beach City Council voted unanimously Monday for a pair of ordinances that will establish a marijuana business district and a tax on commercial activity involving cannabis. Grover Beach plans to create a marijuana district in a 70-acre industrial zone that is located between Farroll...

The city of Atwater will take a harder look at allowing large indoor marijuana cultivation, manufacturing and other cannabis-related industries as a means of generating additional tax revenue, according to members of the council. Cultivation is banned in Atwater, as are dispensaries and...

Sonoma County voters in March are being asked to approve a tax on cannabis cultivation, which officials say will help pay for the impacts of growing the crop that was recently legalized for recreational use. Known as Measure A on the March 7 ballot, it faces little opposition as a key...