Politics

 A medical cannabis bill has been filed in the Kentucky General Assembly every year since 2013. In that time around a dozen other states have passed medical bills, eight more have joined Colorado and Washington in full legalization. Presidents...

 A medical cannabis bill has been filed in the Kentucky General Assembly every year since 2013. In that time around a dozen other states have passed medical bills, eight more have joined Colorado and Washington in full legalization. Presidents...

At his State of the State address on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy again pushed for legalization of marijuana, both as an economic boost and a matter of fairness. Along with outlining plans for infrastructure...

In Syracuse, New York, Onondaga Country District Attorney William Fitzpatrick has ordered his staff to dismiss all new and pending marijuana charges this year. The policy shift is just part of the district attorney’s broader plan to wipe decades...

In recent years, the InfantRisk Center at Texas Tech University has been inundated with phone calls from pregnant and breastfeeding mothers about cannabis use. The rising number of cannabis-related calls flooding the center punctuates the reality reflected in a new...

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine's timeline for getting legal marijuana in stores is uncertain in the wake of the cancellation of a consulting deal to write rules. Maine hired BOTEC, a Los Angeles consultant, to help craft the rules about issues...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hall-of-Fame quarterback Joe Montana, looking to hit pay dirt in the legal marijuana industry, is part of a $75 million investment in a cannabis operator, it was announced Jan. 24, 2019. San Jose, California-based Caliva said it...

DENVER  — The owners of a Denver marijuana business pleaded guilty Jan. 25, 2019, to drug and racketeering charges and will spend a year in prison in what city officials called the first local prosecution of a legal cannabis...

It was a burning question the moment the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in August 2016 that skateboarding would make its debut at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo: How long before a world-class skateboarder tested positive for cannabis? Then, the...

Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania’s Democrat governor who’s signaled openness towards recreational cannabis legalization, has OK’d a series of town hall meetings to explore the future of marijuana in the state. His recently sworn-in lieutenant governor John Fetterman will be spearheading...