Workers at Orange County’s first licensed medical marijuana dispensary have unanimously decided to unionize. South Coast Safe Access, which employs up to 22 people in Santa Ana, signed a labor agreement with United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 324.
Supporters and foes of legalizing marijuana gathered at the Massachusetts Statehouse on Monday to weigh in on a proposal that would allow the recreational use and possession of marijuana up to an ounce for those 21 and older.
An anti-marijuana group wants the Maine Attorney General’s Office to investigate the failed signature-gathering drive to legalize marijuana.
A West Virginia lawmaker said it was difficult for him, but necessary, to detail his own positive experience with medical marijuana in order to help defeat a bill that would have lengthened prison terms for people bringing drugs into the state.
The Florida House passed its second medical marijuana bill in three years. Legislators acknowledged that the legislation is not a panacea for all of the problems that have arisen the past two years, but that it does make significant progress.
The Mississippi House has voted against an unexpected question of whether the state should legalize marijuana.
Supporters of a voter initiative for Maine marijuana legalization have failed to collect enough valid signatures to qualify for the state ballot; an appeal of the decision is forthcoming.
Puerto Rico’s governor has called for the legalization of marijuana during his last public address as leader of the U.S. territory.
House members approved a bill expanding the list of conditions under which residents would be eligible to possess medical marijuana in Georgia.
The death of a marijuana edibles bill and lack of Wyoming Supreme Court ruling could leave the state’s district judges to come up with differing interpretations of the law.
Marijuana dispensaries will have at least two weeks to prepare for severe rollbacks to Montana’s medical marijuana law, though most will likely have to shut down, the head of an advocacy group that tried to block the restrictions said Friday.
The Montana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that medical marijuana providers should be paid for their services, but it clamped down on commercial sales of the drug by limiting providers to no more than three patients each.
A plan to legalize the use of edible, vapor and topical marijuana products by those with chronic conditions cleared a key vote in Utah’s Senate on Thursday after the Mormon church relaxed some of its opposition to the measure.
A Wyoming legislative committee has moved to make possession of pot brownies and other edibles a misdemeanor instead of a felony, as was previously proposed.
Authorities say a second-grader’s story about helping a farmer grow “special medicine” plants led to a man’s arrest in a marijuana bust in Vermont.
The Vermont Senate has given final passage to a bill to legalize possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by residents of the state. Final approval came on a 17-to-12 vote Thursday after one senator switched what had been a no on an earlier vote to a yes.
A bill to legalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana by adults in Vermont is up for debate in the state Senate.
An analysis of drug arrests by the Baltimore Sun shows that fewer people were arrested in 2015 for possession and distribution of marijuana and other illicit drugs, including heroin and cocaine. Small amounts of marijuana were decriminalized in 2014.
A push to legalize recreational marijuana in Rhode Island has won the support of one of the state’s top lawmakers. Senate Majority Leader Dominick Ruggerio, a North Providence Democrat, has signed on as co-sponsor of a bill to treat marijuana like alcohol by legalizing, regulating and taxing it.
Utah state senators gave preliminary approval Monday to a medical marijuana proposal that would legalize edible, vapor and topical pot products. Lawmakers voted 15-13 to advance the bill.
The Mormon church eased its opposition Monday to a broad medical marijuana plan that faces a key vote this week in Utah’s Legislature.
Colorado Springs police say they have arrested two men who were growing marijuana illegally in a home.
A key vote on a medical marijuana proposal opposed by the Mormon church has been pushed off until Monday after Utah’s Senate on Friday ran out of time debating the measure.
Colorado starts work Friday on becoming the first state to regulate organic labels in its pot industry, with other legal weed states watching to see whether they too should step in to help consumers wondering what’s on their weed.
In an anticipatory move for the possible legalization of marijuana, Vermont police dogs are no longer trained to recognize the drug’s smell.
Three proposals that would alter the ways in which legal marijuana is bought, sold and regulated in Oregon gained momentum at the Capitol this week with relatively minimal debate or discord among partisan policymakers, pleasing many industry advocates who had been rallying for the changes.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has clarified its differing opinions on two separate pieces of medical marijuana legislation. It is supporting a bill that would not allow access to products containing THC, only cannabidiol.
Medical marijuana advocates are opposing an annual $350-per-plant fee that Rhode Island Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo wants to impose on some growers as part of her budget plan.
New Mexico lawmakers have killed a proposal that would legalize and tax recreational marijuana.
Six Democrats joined Republicans to oppose the measure in a 17-24 Senate vote Sunday night.
The board tasked with regulating the Alaska marijuana industry provided guidance Thursday for yet-to-be-drafted rules to allow for people to use marijuana at certain stores that will sell it.
The Smokin Gun, a new Colorado pot shop, has some wondering whether strippers and marijuana are too closely aligned on a busy corridor near downtown Denver.
A federal judge in Massachusetts has delayed the sentencing of an 80-year-old man who admitted running a sprawling multistate marijuana-dealing operation.
A former federal judge who gave a Utah music producer 55 years in prison for bringing guns to marijuana deals asked the president to commute the sentence Tuesday, the latest appeal in a case held up as an example of problems with mandatory minimum sentencing laws.
Authorities say five men conspired to send hundreds of pounds of Colorado pot to other states by hiding it in furniture and shipping it on commercial trucks.
Facebook has restored the business page of one of three New Jersey medical marijuana dispensaries it shut down last week for violating the social media company’s policy against promoting the sale of drugs.
The Oregon Department of Agriculture stopped the sale of a pesticide used by marijuana growers because one of its active ingredients is not listed on the product label.
The president of the Utah state Senate says a bill allowing the medical use of edible pot products may not be dead on arrival just because the Mormon church opposes it.
The entertainer Flavor Flav pleaded no contest Monday to misdemeanor driving under the influence in Las Vegas, marking the second plea in two weeks involving similar charges in Nevada.
The Mormon church has come out against a Utah bill that would allow the medical use of edible pot products, a position that could be a serious blow to one of two medical marijuana proposals before state lawmakers.
Three of New Jersey’s five medical marijuana dispensaries have had their business pages shutdown by Facebook, cutting off what advocates call an integral place for customers to learn about which plant strains best treat their illness and where to find discounts.
An emergency bill to fix a legislative drafting error that had local governments in California racing to ban medical marijuana cultivation won Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature on Wednesday.
Hopes for Wyoming voters to legalize medical marijuana this year went up in smoke as organizers fell thousands of signatures short of getting the question on the 2016 ballot.
Hawaii lawmakers are considering dozens of proposals to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, as well as a couple that could legalize recreational marijuana.
A market research company says retail sales could reach just $15.6 million in 2016 due in part to the governor’s limits on program expansion.
The Government Accountability Office says the Justice Department needs to better document how it’s tracking the effect of marijuana legalization in the states.
California’s largest organization of practicing physicians, the California Medical Association, announced Monday that it is backing a proposed 2016 ballot initiative to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
A New Hampshire woman who was suffering from late-stage cancer when she won permission to buy medical marijuana in Maine before it was available in her home state died Monday.
The Judiciary Committee of the Vermont Senate has voted 4-1 to approve a bill that would legalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana by people in Vermont who are 21 or older.
Puerto Rico’s Health Department has adopted a regulation that will allow for the cultivation, manufacturing and distribution of medical marijuana in the U.S. territory.
