marijuana

Officials in Evanston, Ill. are proposing sale tax from the sales of cannabis be used to fund a proposal for reparations.

The owner of High Times is going to start selling marijuana after championing its use in the pages of its magazine for nearly half a century.

Legal marijuana has become established in some form into all but a handful of states, but the industry faces a challenge as the economy falters amid the coronavirus crisis

Registered marijuana dispensaries in D.C. can offer delivery service, curbside pickup and at-the-door pickup starting Tuesday amid the coronavirus crisis, the mayor and health department announced.  The temporary order by the mayor is “necessary to protect the health, safety and welfare” of medical marijuana patients as they abide by D.C.’s stay-at-home order and adhere to social distancing guidelines, the...

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring says the state will become “a more fair, just, and equal place” now that simple possession of marijuana will be decriminalized

A Maryland woman is accused of taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to move 100 pounds of marijuana into Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

How do real estate agents and property owners respond to the growing marijuana industry? News4’s Erika Gonzalez has the report.

As marijuana dispensaries are on the rise with more states opting to legalize the recreational use of the drug, some may wonder how other industries are being affected by it, if at all. One industry that is actually not seeing much of a change is real estate. According to a recent survey from the National Association of Realtors, 85% of…

Anyone who gets caught with a small amount of marijuana in Virginia could soon face a small fine instead of a court case, larger expenses and possible jail time.

Virginia is moving toward decriminalizing simple possession of marijuana.

A Stafford, Virginia, man was arrested by a Stafford County sheriff’s deputy early Thursday morning when he was discovered passed out in the parking lot of a Motel 6 in Fredericksburg with an 8-year-old sleeping in the backseat.

Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has entered the cannabis industry, making history as the first historically black college or university to join the legal marijuana business, NBC News reported.

It was the first heist since cannabis was made available for medical patients four years ago. But was the $200,000 burglary of a Chicago MOCA dispensary an inside job? Ask Chicago Police, and they’ll tell you without hesitation that the January 6th burglary of the MOCA dispensary in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood had all the hallmarks of a classic...

D.C. police served a search warrant at a Georgetown smoke shop for the second time in two months Thursday afternoon, and the owners say they are being bullied. Neighbors and the D.C. government believe Mr. Nice Guy Smoke Shop on 33rd Street NW is breaking the law and creating a public nuisance.  When the shop reopened after the search...

D.C. police searched a Georgetown smoke shop for the second time in two months. The owners told Jackie Bensen they are being bullied.

The new commonwealth’s attorney in Fairfax County is asking judges to drop all charges of simple marijuana possession. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder was in the courtroom today when a veteran judge said he’s never seen anything like this.

In the first year that recreational marijuana was legal in Vermont, the number of drivers arrested by state police for impaired driving who had THC in their systems more than doubled, according to state police data requested by The Associated Press. While some police believe the increase in 2018 shows more people are using cannabis and driving since legalization, other…

Major League Baseball will start testing for opioids and cocaine. But only players who do not cooperate with their treatment plans will be subject to discipline. Marijuana will be removed from the list of drugs of abuse and will be treated the same as alcohol as part of changes to the joint drug agreement between MLB and the players’ association....

Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association agreed to begin testing for opioids, cocaine, fentanyl and synthetic THC. They will also remove marijuana from the list of drugs of abuse.

Willie Nelson may have given up smoking, but he hasn’t stopped using marijuana. While in San Antonio last week for two performances, the 86-year-old country music legend told KSAT TV that in an effort to take better care of himself, he no longer smokes. The longtime marijuana advocate says he “started smoking cedar bark, went from that to cigarettes to...