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 After nearly two years of discussion, the Las Vegas City Council approved the licensing of social-use cannabis venues on May 1. In a city with some of the world’s largest legal cannabis retailers—and nowhere to light up—it looked like...

In a historic move, Illinois is poised to become the 11th state to legalize marijuana and the first to do it through legislative action, not through a voter-approved ballot initiative. Making good on his campaign promises, Democratic Illinois Gov....

Two Canadian cannabis companies said this week that their strategy for expansion into the U.S. market includes – and will start with – hemp and CBD.Canopy Growth, a Smiths Falls, Ontario-based leader in the Canadian marijuana industry, said Tuesday...

After Missouri voters enacted Amendment 2 last November—which legalized medical marijuana—the state’s health department took public input from patients, medical professionals, entrepreneurs, and industry professionals about how to structure the new system. But the department doesn’t seem to have equity...

Smōk is one of six cannabis retail stores initially licensed to open in the Greater Toronto Area, in addition to five locations in Toronto and 14 elsewhere in the province. The outlet is owned by Alexander Altman, a winner of...

Oregon is awash in so much legal weed that if growing were to stop today, it could take more than six years by one estimate to smoke or eat it all. Now, the state is planning to curb production. Five years...

by Justin Strekal, NORML Political Director June 4, 2019 In a change of trajectory, the powerful Appropriations Committee in the House of Representatives has for the first time included limited protections for cannabis businesses engaged in the legal marketplaces in...

It was bad news when Superette's Instagram account went down. It was bad news partly because of when it went down, April 4, 2019, three days after the brand new cannabis store's grand opening on April 1 (the first day...

For cannabis lovers, Northern California's Humboldt County is a holy land. For decades, copious amounts of top-shelf quality bud have been grown here despite prohibition. Humboldt County's legendary, multigenerational family farms that specialize in outdoor, sun-grown cannabis have often...

A new federal spending bill introduced by House Democrats over the weekend may break two logjams in one fell swoop. One provision in the bill would provide legal protections for banks that work with the cannabis industry, while another would...