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News4’s Juliana Valencia goes inside one of D.C.’s first medical marijuana dispensaries as the city holds a tax holiday.

Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried’s lawsuit targets a federal requirement that prohibits medical marijuana users from purchasing firearms.

Marijuana regulators around the country face a vexing question: What place does chemically derived THC have in regulated adult-use or medical markets

Mike Tyson’s cannabis brand has launched ear-shaped marijuana edibles nearly 25 years after he was disqualified from a championship for biting Evander Holyfield’s ear.

The studies will focus on uses for pain management and neuroprotection from concussion in elite football players

A South Dakota man is facing a felony drug charge after his mother unknowingly served his marijuana-laced brownies to a group of seniors at a local community center, according to officials.

Some of the compounds in cannabis may prevent the entry of the coronavirus into healthy human cells, according to a study published in the Journal of Nature Products.

A federal raid on a small household marijuana garden on tribal land in northern New Mexico is sowing confusion and resentment about U.S. drug enforcement priorities.

Chanda Macias faced a lot of critics as she started in the marijuana industry — but she persisted and is considered a trailblazer in the field. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

As the cannabis industry grows, more women are not only partaking but getting involved in the weed business. News4’s Jummy Olabanji talks to one mom and entrepreneur who says she’s always recognized the potential of marijuana.

Nats Park becomes an Opera House, D.C. goes crazy for cannabis and a reason to look up if you’re driving through Tysons. Tommy McFly has a look at all the big events happening this weekend.

This degree could help medical professionals, chemists and those who aim to work in marijuana-related policy, to understand the effects of the drug. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen is suing a Massachusetts cannabis dispensary over a billboard featuring an image of his character from the movie “Borat,” court documents show. He said the Somerset dispensary, Solar Therapeutics, Inc., plastered the persona on the billboard without his permission for weeks, reaching hundreds of thousands of people. Baron Cohen, along with his California-based company Please You…

“The federal government’s current approach is a half-in, half-out regime that simultaneously tolerates and forbids local use of marijuana,” the conservative Supreme Court justice wrote.

Biology researchers exposed lobsters to THC, the chemical in cannabis that gets users high – after a lobster shack owner claimed the drug could ease the crustaceans’ suffering when getting cooked.

A team at UC San Diego Health is conducting the first known randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial looking at cannabis as a potentially effective treatment for acute migraines, and researchers put out a call today for participants.

Many states that are legalizing marijuana have plans to help communities hurt by the war on drugs and create a legal weed industry reflective of those communities. But there needs to be more than “magical thinking” from regulators to get those businesses started, says Smoke Wallin, a board member of the U.S. Hemp Roundtable.

In states where marijuana is legal, dispensaries have to use cash or debit cards. They’re unable to accept credit cards or other forms of payment due to their product, cannabis, still being illegal under federal law. But the SAFE Banking Act, if it passes the Senate, would allow marijuana businesses to do more banking on the books and create a...

Under a bill signed Wednesday by Governor Andrew Cuomo, New Yorkers over age 21 can now possess up to three ounces of cannabis, and the state will automatically clear criminal records of certain past marijuana-related convictions.

New York has become the 16th state in the U.S. to legalize marijuana after the state Senate and Assembly both voted to approve the bill on Tuesday — and Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed it into law the following day.