By Riverside Wellness Riverside Wellness LLC is expanding patient access to medical marijuana in the Kansas City area to offer home delivery service starting Monday. “Delivery is incredibly important for our disabled and homebound patients, as well as busy parents and those who work from home,” says Mary Ann Denzer, co-owner... more →

by Brandon Garcia  West Hollywood City Council approved a controversial change to the buffer zone keeping cannabis businesses 600 feet away from West Hollywood Park. City zoning laws prohibit cannabis businesses from operating within 600 feet of so-called “sensitive-use areas” — daycare facilities, youth centers,... more →

By Chris Roberts Marijuana legalization came slowly to Modesto, California, a city of about 212,000 in the state’s Central Valley, a vast, flat expanse full of farms intersected by freeways, new tract homes—and values hard to the right of the state’s coastal cities. For years, medical marijuana dispensaries were banned... more →

By Tom Schuba  After a year of turmoil, Illinois is finally on the verge of dishing out precious new pot shop permits — and hundreds of groups are now in the running. The first of three lotteries for 185 total dispensary licenses is set for Thursday, with the others scheduled next month. Toi Hutchinson, Gov. J.B.... more →

By MADISON STATEN  The Las Cruces City Council is working to shape cannabis policy on the local level—reviewing time, place and manner recommendations during a recent work session.  Policy considerations include limiting consumption areas to indoors and establishing buffer zones between businesses. That buffer... more →

By ROBERT MCCOPPIN In a warehouse outside Chicago, a crop of hemp grows to produce a controversial substance that some people call “weed light.” The plants fall under the same Cannabis sativa species that produce marijuana. But like all legal hemp, they have been bred to contain less than .3% delta-9-THC, the main ingredient... more →

ByJoe Gramigna The proportion of schizophrenia cases linked to cannabis use disorder increased three- to fourfold in the past 2 decades, according to results of a nationwide prospective cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry. “Several studies have previously shown that cannabis use is associated with an increased... more →

By MARK FORSTENHAUSLER After several months of careful deliberation, the Randolph Cannabis Subcommittee in June recommended that the Randolph Township Council “opt-out” of permitting cannabis-related business licenses at this time.  Based on this recommendation, the Randolph Township Council introduced an ordinance... more →

By Tom Metcalfe Marijuana users have had many occasions to wonder where their much-beloved — yet much maligned — cannabis plant came from. They need wonder no more: New genetic research reveals that the pot plant has its roots in what is now northwest China, where local strains are most like the original strain... more →

By Bill Barlow WEST CAPE MAY — Supporters of a proposal to allow cannabis to be grown and sold in town cited the potential revenue and the borough’s history as an agricultural area. Speakers on both sides of the issue had their say Wednesday evening during a public hearing on an ordinance allowing the use. Supporters outnumbered... more →