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“2,100 people in Massachusetts were killed by opioid overdoses last year, not marijuana overdoses, so that is where my resources are going right now.”

A loophole in the temporary state regs allows growers to “stack” small-farm licenses. The lawsuit challenges that rule.

An alert sent to members of the state’s legal cannabis industry could be a sign that the state is gearing up to mount a challenge to the Justice Department.

NJ Gov. Phil Murphy took the first step toward opening up a state program that was notoriously tight under predecessor Chris Christie.

Senate leaders Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell struck a deal that will keep the government open, and MMJ protected, for 17 days.

The law contains no mechanism for the taxation or sale of marijuana, although the Legislature is expected to develop such a system.

The existing draft of Ontario’s Cannabis Plan sees cannabis consumption forbidden in all public places—essentially restricting legal use to private residences—but the new proposals could open things up considerably.

Hungry for tax revenue, Calaveras County licensed hundreds of commercial cannabis farms in recent years. Now it wants them gone, leaving growers in the lurch.

When the Senate vote failed, the budget expired and the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer medical marijuana protections vanished. So what’s next?

Project SAM asked 1,000 people what they thought about legalization. The answers were…maybe not what the group expected.