But after months of legal limbo with no regulations, the city isn’t sure how many have already opened or where.
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Add marijuana to NAFTA, Mexican president says
Vicente Fox expects his country to legalize recreational pot use in 2019 and has long believed it would reduce cartel violence.
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Kittery man who sought investors for cannabis business on Craigslist takes a hit from the SEC
Richard J. Greenlaw has agreed to return $340,000 in proceeds and pay a $50,000 fine after collecting about $500,000 by offering securities without being registered, the Securities and Exchange Commission says.
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Workers at Mount Vernon estate highlight George Washington’s hemp ties
He had grown the crop, though smoking to get high would have been foreign to people of his era.
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California could reshape pot rules as legal market struggles
With illicit sales still thriving and a patchwork of local laws creating confusion, anxiety and frustration has set in across much of the industry.
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First year of Nevada marijuana sales exceeds expectations
Tax revenue from the state’s pot sales are surpassing expectations and will send $25 million in new funding to schools.
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Rockland mayor wants council to consider moratorium on marijuana businesses in downtown
Valli Geiger proposes the move after learning that a third application has been taken out for a medical pot production facility on Main Street.
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Willie Nelson marijuana brand coming to Canada
The move continues a trend of U.S. cannabis companies heading north, where federal laws don’t inhibit access to international markets.
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Marijuana bills increasingly focus on social justice
Supporters see an opportunity to repair decades of harm done to poor and minority groups disproportionately arrested for pot use.
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Lawmakers endorse sweeping medical marijuana reforms
By a wide margin, legislators override a veto by Gov. Paul LePage to push forward changes in the state’s medical marijuana industry.