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One of the biggest positive steps for marijuana reform in Texas in 2017 happened here in Dallas. On Dec. 1, the city began issuing citations, rather than making arrests, for possession of less than 4 ounces of marijuana. Those busted are still subject to the same penalties as they were before...

Medical marijuana regulators approved 12 new dispensaries to open in the state on Thursday, more than doubling the number of businesses allowed to sell the drug. But they cautioned the supply is still low, and it may be hard to buy marijuana until at least March. "Product is limited,"...

Smoked pot? Want to go to war? No problem. As more states lessen or eliminate marijuana penalties, the Army is granting hundreds of waivers to enlist people who used the drug in their youth – as long as they realize they can't do so again in the military. The number of waivers granted by...

In case you haven't noticed, the marijuana industry has many investors seeing green. The average pot stock valued in excess of $200 million in market cap has seen its share price double or triple over the trailing year. What's behind this move? Look no further than the notable change in the...

Legalization of marijuana in eight states -– including Nevada – in last year's election has opened the floodgates for pot businesses to make money. That's according to more than a dozen business owners whose products are both directly marketed at buyers in the pot sector, and in similar...

Seven bin bags packed full of cannabis were discovered lying at the side of the road by council workers. The surprising haul was found in North Yorkshire early on Sunday morning, the BBC reported. Local Harrogate police officer, PC Amanda Hanusch-Moore, tweeted a picture of the drug stash...

Larimer County Sheriff's Office deputies have arrested five men over the past year in connection with a drug investigation that began with social media posts about illegal activity. The latest development in the case came Sunday, when Domingo Gonzalez, 54, of Berthoud was arrested after a...

Did you know that Virginia had the nation's first marijuana law? That's right, back in 1623, planters were required to grow it because it was needed for ropes and sails. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were among those growing the non-psychoactive strain of hemp (Reportedly, they may...

Last month, the Dallas County district attorney charged more than 400 individuals with possession of less than two ounces of marijuana each. That means well over 400 people could have remained in the community but were instead arrested and put into jail. Some surely lost jobs, others surely had...

Your parents are right: Weed is stronger than it used to be. A 2015 report from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) titled "Marijuana Equivalency in Portion and Dosage" lists the average potency of flower in Colorado at 17.1 percent and concentrates at 62.1...

Officials who say recreational marijuana can help close budget holes may be on to something. The average consumer of legal recreational marijuana spends $111.05 per month on marijuana products, according to a new LendEDU poll of 1,000 consumers. Of them, 27.6 percent of respondents said they...

Atlanta City Council unanimously passed legislation that would reduce the penalties for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana on Monday afternoon. Councilman Kwanza Hall introduced the legislation last month. The current law allows for a penalty of up to $1,000 and up to six...

An American citizen from Arizona is accused of trying to smuggle more than one hundred pounds of marijuana into the United States. Agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped the 43-year-old man from Tucson at an immigration checkpoint near Whetstone, Arizona. Authorities found...

A 60-year-old county man with a medical marijuana card is facing charges of illegal marijuana sales, illegal production of marijuana, and operating a butane hash oil lab without a license. Thomas Schuster was hit with those charges Sept. 6 when Navajo County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes...

Got pot? Colorado does: The state was one of the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use. But the botanical genus Cannabis is more than bongs and brownies. Viewed as a plant, not a drug, it intrigues the artistic eye with its fronds, veins and flowers. That's the premise of "Cannabis: A...

The marijuana industry in the United States is still in its infancy, and companies are learning how to ensure the industry is both profitable and safe. In California, for instance, there's a lack of regulation and testing of marijuana products grown in the state, and that can result in consumers...

On 14 plots scattered across Pennsylvania this year, farmers reintroduced what was once a dominant cash crop to the state: industrial hemp, the straight-laced, non-psychoactive cannabis cousin of marijuana. Not one of the growers had any prior experience cultivating the plant, which grows...

Terry Skelton, a beef farmer in Erie County, was curious about adding hemp to his grazing rotation. "I would like to rotational graze the hemp, to see if that would be a way to put fat on my animals – a feasible way to build fat on my animals," he said. There is quite a bit farmers don't...

You're never too old for weed – at least, that's according to a new study that shows seniors are the fastest growing marijuana consumers. Published by researchers from the New York University School of Medicine and Columbia University, the study looked at a 2016 survey on drug use, and found...

Border Patrol agents seized more than $500,000 worth of marijuana after a vehicle pursuit east of Douglas on Sunday night, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Agents started to pursue the suspicious vehicle after it was spotted by another agent operating surveillance technology...