LA cannabis businesses deemed essential during pandemic
Among the Los Angeles businesses deemed essential and urged to remain open are those with city permits to sell cannabis, authorities said.
Buying binge: Marijuana users stocking up during quarantine
New York, San Francisco and Palm Springs, California, are among the cities labeling dispensaries “essential” businesses that can remain open during virus lockdowns, in some cases with limitations.
Michigan man seeks release 25 years into 60-year sentence for selling pot
A Flint man who was sentenced in 1996 to 60-years for selling marijuana to an undercover informant is asking for release after almost 25 years in prison.
Alaska pot shops among 1st in US to allow onsite consumption
Marijuana shops in Alaska will be among the first nationally where onsite use would be permitted.
Marijuana sales along Oregon/Idaho state line are 420% higher than Oregon average
Oregon sells marijuana legally. Idaho does not. And that is apparently why sales at shops in Oregon along the Idaho border are booming.
Illinois rakes in $3.2 million on first day of legal recreational marijuana sales
Illinois rang in the new year by officially legalizing the sale of recreational marijuana, raking in nearly $3.2 million in sales on its first day, state officials announced Thursday.
2020 will bring cannabis vote, law barring salary queries to NJ
The new year in New Jersey brings 18 new laws — from a proposed constitutional amendment to allow recreational marijuana to a measure that bars employers from using salary history to screen potential workers.
St. Pete man arrested for handing out marijuana to strangers ‘because it was Christmas,' police say
A 67-year-old man was arrested Saturday after St. Petersburg police officers learned he was giving out marijuana to people who passed by him.
New Jersey lawmakers pass marijuana referendum for 2020 ballot
New Jersey lawmakers have passed a ballot question to legalize recreational marijuana, putting the referendum before voters in 2020.
MLB's revised drug policy would essentially make weed legal throughout baseball: report
Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players' Association are reportedly in agreement in removing marijuana from the list of banned substances for minor leaguers.
Canada suspects launched marijuana, meth into jail using potato gun: police
Investigators believe the suspects used a "potato gun cannon" to shoot drugs over the fence of a correctional facility.
Company wants to pay someone $3,000 a month to smoke and review marijuana
Cue the Snoop Dogg song!
Illegal pot farms on public land creating environmental hazard
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two months after two men were arrested at an illicit marijuana farm on public land deep in the Northern California wilderness, authorities are assessing the environmental impact and cleanup costs at the site where trees were clear-cut, waterways were diverted, and the ground was littered with open containers of fertilizer and rodenticide.
Master in Weed? You can do that at this university
For those who ever dreamed of earning a master's degree in marijuana, now is the time to try.
Pa. court to decide if probationers can use medical marijuana
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will decide whether people on probation and other forms of supervision can use cannabis if they are registered in Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana program.
America's first official cannabis cafe now open in West Hollywood
America's first official cannabis cafe opened on Tuesday in West Hollywood. Lowell Farms: A Cannabis Cafe offers a "farm-to-table experience for both cuisine and cannabis."
Delaware County lawmaker introduces bill to legalize marijuana, sell at Pa. stores
A Pennsylvania lawmaker has proposed a new bill that seeks to legalize recreational marijuana and sell it at state-operated stores.
Delaware lawmakers pass pot decriminalization for juveniles
House lawmakers have given final approval to bill expanding Delaware's decriminalization of simple possession of marijuana to juveniles.