Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who left his post in Afghanistan and was held by the Taliban for five years, was at a property in California that was raided for pot, though he was not arrested and had no connection to the marijuana grow, sheriff’s officials said Friday.
Washington medical marijuana changes: PTSD and traumatic brain injuries will now be considered qualifying conditions; new voluntary registry database.
Inside view: A look at how parents who are working in the legal marijuana industry handle the pot conversation with their own children.
A U.S. Senate panel voted Thursday to lessen restrictions that have prevented legal marijuana businesses from doing business with banks and other financial services providers.
A Colorado man has pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from flying a plane containing more than 200 pounds of marijuana into a southeast Kansas airport.
A 93-page report by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom presents a wide range of choices and competing interests involved as advocates work to bring a recreational use initiative to voters next year.
Durango Mayor Dean Brookie says the city needs to look for more creative ways to solve budgetary needs than taxing recreational marijuana.
Ohio’s elections chief says a marijuana legalization campaign has failed to meet its initial signature target.
As legal marijuana moves from basements and backwoods to warehouses and commercial fields, the mold and spider mites that once ruined only a few plants at a time can now quickly create a multimillion-dollar crisis for growers. Some are turning to industrial-strength chemicals, raising concerns about safety.
Iowa’s medical cannabis oil program has cost the state more than $100,000 to create and issue registration cards to about 50 people, even as the effort has faced criticism that it’s cumbersome and largely useless.
A South Dakota tribe chose to partner with Colorado-based Monarch America Inc. as a marijuana consultant, despite the firm’s financial challenges.
Ohio resident and former boy band star Nick Lachey is among five investors in one of 10 marijuana grow centers that would be created across the state under a proposed ballot issue.
The sheriff in a western Idaho border county is encouraging deputies to cite rather than arrest every pot smoker caught on the wrong side of Oregon’s recreational marijuana law.
Authorities seized 2,700 pot plants that they say were part of an illegal grow operation in western Colorado between Grand Junction and Montrose.
A measure that would allow marijuana users to carry a concealed firearm didn’t garner enough signatures to head to the Colorado ballot this year, organizers said.
A cannabis church has sued the city of Indianapolis and state of Indiana, claiming laws against possession and use of marijuana infringe on its religious beliefs.
Federal agents have seized at least 12,000 marijuana plants from land in far Northern California that belongs to two federally recognized Indian tribes, the U.S. attorney’s office in Sacramento said.
Fifteen unlicensed medical marijuana shops in unincorporated King County are on notice that they are violating Washington state’s new law.
Commissioners in a southwest Colorado county are seeking an injunction to stop a bong-a-thon event that failed to secure a permit but appears to be proceeding anyway.
A quarter century after Bill Clinton confessed he tried marijuana but insisted “I didn’t inhale,” the taboo against marijuana is shrinking at the highest level of politics, just as it appears to be with the public.
Activists who campaigned for recreational pot legalization in Colorado have launched a petition drive to allow what they call “limited social marijuana consumption” at bars.
When Washington launched its legal marijuana market last summer, customers faced long lines and high prices at a limited number of shops. How have things changed in a year? The state’s ninth-largest grower says: ‘It’s amazing we could be so successful and unsuccessful at the same time.’
The fate of an Oregon bill allowing retail marijuana sales to begin Oct. 1 lies with Gov. Kate Brown.
School officials in Grand Junction are crediting counseling and a campus security officer with decreasing expulsions for students caught with marijuana.
Oregon began easing into an era of legal marijuana Wednesday after an early-morning pot celebration at the center of Portland.
State lawmakers in Ohio sent a proposal to the fall ballot on Tuesday that would ban constitutional monopolies, an effort with the potential to scuttle marijuana legalization in the state.
More than 100 people packed a pot-smoking Indiana cannabis church for a music-filled service without their illegal sacrament Wednesday, days after authorities threatened arrests if the congregation lit up during the rites.
Forty-two years after Oregon became the first state to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana, the state is taking its first steps along a road leading to state-licensed stores selling limited amounts of it to anyone over 21.
Washington state’s recreational marijuana law has a new tax structure under a measure signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jay Inslee.
Southern Oregon’s Williams Valley is ideal for growing cannabis, with long warm summers with little or no rain. The region’s medical marijuana growers have become a sought-after resource as the state prepares for the new recreational era.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed a bill that reduces penalties for pot possession, and another that will eventually allow medical marijuana through a limited number of distributors.
Oregon marijuana: As lawmakers push closer to the July 11 deadline to adjourn, the pace of activity is picking up precipitously.
For qualifying patients, advocates and some Minnesota lawmakers, July 1 isn’t the finish line, but the first step. The nation’s latest medical marijuana program won’t have smokable cannabis, only pill bottles and vials of marijuana-infused oil.
Here’s a look at Oregon marijuana as adult possession and use of recreational pot go into effect July 1, and the legal pot movement across the nation.
Photos: Take a peek inside a marijuana club in Uruguay, where $92 monthly dues at Canabico Sativa gets members 40 grams of high-grade weed per month.
A group hoping to put a broad marijuana legalization issue on the Ohio ballot next year has cleared another hurdle.
Indianapolis authorities say they’re prepared to arrest participants who attend the first service at a pot-smoking church that was formed as a test of the state’s new religious objections law.
Louisiana medical marijuana: Residents who could benefit from medical marijuana may want to use the drug soon, but the reality is that a long wait is ahead.
Federal prosecutors in South Dakota refuse to lift an injunction against Alex White Plume that prevents the enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Nation from growing the crop on tribal lands.
Retail sales of recreational marijuana would begin as soon as Oct. 1 in Oregon, far sooner than had been expected, under a bill approved Thursday by a state legislative committee.
An Indian tribe in South Dakota that plans to start selling marijuana for recreational and medicinal purposes has chosen Monarch America, Inc., a Colorado-based company, to grow and distribute the drug on the reservation.
After months of negotiations and right before recreational pot becomes legal, Oregon House legislators passed a bill Wednesday setting up the state’s legal marijuana market.
The Denver County Fair is dropping marijuana exhibits from next month’s event, a year after 100 people said they were unwittingly served pot-infused chocolate in the fair’s “Pot Pavilion.”
Police say a loose dog at a New Hampshire motel led them to a room with a bathtub containing marijuana and the arrest of the dog’s owner.
The state lawmakers preparing for Oregon’s legal marijuana program are supporting a sales tax for the drug.
Medical marijuana has not been proven to work for many illnesses that state laws have approved it for, according to the first comprehensive analysis of research on its potential benefits.
Here is what’s legal (and what’s not) in Oregon marijuana. Five questions about legal pot in the Pacific Northwest, answered.
The first medical marijuana dispensary in Massachusetts is scheduled to open nearly three years after voters overwhelmingly approved marijuana for medicinal use.
Recreational marijuana businesses can now set up shop in Parachute, a western Colorado town that banned them in 2013.
Delaware marijuana laws: Gov. Jack Markell signed legislation Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana in Delaware.
