marijuana

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

New York City has barred many employers from making job applicants get tested for marijuana use, under a law that took effect over the weekend

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.

The NYPD busted more than three dozen people for failing to practice social distancing. Adam Kuperstein reports.

A concerned citizen alerted NYPD patrol officers to a large gathering in New York City Monday — and what police found was a party straight out of ‘Animal House’ (and a violation of COVID-19 social distancing orders), a senior police official told NBC News. NYPD officers were flagged down by a concerned citizen to what seemed like a large crowd…

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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

A minivan pulled over after it sped off a Massachusetts highway Wednesday was weighed down with more than 300 pounds of marijuana, state police said.

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...

Camera rolls as Tennessee man facing charge of simple possession smokes marijuana during court appearance. WSMV’s Joshua Cole reports.

New York could have one of the most lenient marijuana possession thresholds in the nation if an alternative legalization proposal is passed this session

A New York lawmaker who last year expressed reservations over marijuana legalization is now backing a bill to make the drug legal. State Sen. Pete Harckham, a Democrat who represents a swath of the Hudson Valley, has announced he is supporting a bill that legalizes and regulates marijuana. Support from Democrats in moderate districts like Harckham’s could be key...

Marijuana legalization looked like it was on a roll in the Northeast a year ago. Then legislative efforts stalled, and a vaping sickness stirred new concerns. Could 2020 bring legalization?

The new year in New Jersey brings not only balloons and toasts. It also brings new laws. A list of measures from New Jersey’s Office of Legislative Services shows 18 new laws taking effect in 2020. Among them is a measure barring employers from using salary history to screen potential workers. A proposed constitutional amendment to allow recreational marijuana will…

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…

A substitute teacher was fired after smoking marijuana in front of students and leading a discussion about the drug at a Massachusetts high school, officials say. WJAR’s Amanda Hoskins reports.

A super-majority of New Jersey lawmakers on Monday passed a proposed ballot question to legalize recreational marijuana, putting the referendum before voters on the 2020 ballot.

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.