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Michigan has been working to finish regulating it's medical marijuana industry over the last few years and now that recreational marijuana is legal in the state the regulatory group is combining it's efforts for both programs. The Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation will now be called the Bureau of Marijuana Regulation as it will be overseeing both markets....

Pennsylvania's medical marijuana industry will be gaining a few new features as the Medical Marijuana Advisory Board approved a process allowing ailments to be added to the state's list of qualifying conditions. Physicians will be able to request that conditions are added, changed, or reduced by applying on the state's website, health.pa.gov. For a conditi...

The Green Bay City Council has moved to make the penalty for possessing under an ounce of marijuana more in line with what voters want. While the change reduces the fine from $1000 down to $500, it's not the smallest fine in the state when it comes to possession. Advocates discussed a $250 fine until last month when $500 was decided upon. Many parts of Wisconsin v...

Luxembourg recently announced their plan to legalize recreational marijuana and though only small official updates have come out since an inside anonymous source has offered further information regarding the coming legislation. As mentioned in their earlier announcement the country's lawmakers are not interested in any cannabis-based tourism and will only allow re...

Cannabis legalization advocates in Kansas are fired up and ready for action as the group Fire It Up Kansas begins their new campaign to bring awareness to the inequalities and injustices of cannabis prohibition. The group is starting the push for legalization awareness with two billboards in Wichita. One illustrates the comparison of adults being able to purchase as m...

Massachusetts officially legalized recreational marijuana and began sales just over 2 weeks ago and sales numbers have been through the roof even with only 2 retail stores open across the state. The first week was actually a short week due to the Thanksgiving holiday and sales were still around $2.2 million. The second week which marked the first official full week of...

Massachusetts recently opened their first two dispensaries after legalizing recreational marijuana, but those two dispensaries aren't exactly accessible by most of the state's population. Particularly Boston residents aren't thrilled with the long drive it takes to get to either Leicester or Northampton and are wondering when shops will open up in their ci...

Michigan's legalization of marijuana officially begins on December 6th, very soon, and law enforcement on college campuses want to make sure students are aware that most campuses are not allowing cannabis any more than before. While charges for possession of under 2.5 ounces of cannabis will no longer come with an arrest and possible jail time, students will still...

Ohio's medical marijuana program has faced a plethora of delays but after years of waiting it looks like patients will finally be able to access medication very soon. 5 months ago was the intended date to open the patient/caregiver registry--better late than never-- the registry is finally open. Earlier this year when it was supposed to be available to sign up gro...

Despite the cannabis law reform developing allover the country there are still many instances where someone's employer chooses to terminate or suspend them due to medical marijuana showing up on a drug test. Craig Miller, a man with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Illinois, is still fighting for his job and to pay his bills after being suspended from his company. He ...

Legislators in New York recently began debates on whether or not to support the state's incoming recreational cannabis legalization bill and while there was definitely opposition, officials voted 13-1 in favor of supporting legalization. The opposition did not come from the legislation itself but rather the person's opinion on cannabis and it's recreationa...

Residents of Boulder, Colorado who have been convicted of possessing under 2 ounces of cannabis may soon be able to have those records sealed in an attempt to stop citizens from being haunted by a previous offense that is no longer a crime. The Boulder Country Distric Attorney's Office found around 4,000 victims of cannabis possession charges that may be able to h...