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Trump camp: Stop using his name in medical marijuana effort
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — President Donald Trump's campaign is telling a Mississippi group to stop saying that Trump supports a ballot measure that would legalize medical marijuana in the state. Mississippians for Compassionate Care is a group promoting Initiative 65. It paid for a letter signed by several...
73-year-old woman pushed onto NYC subway tracks
NEW YORK (AP) — Police were searching on Tuesday for a man suspected of knocking a 73-year-old woman onto New York City subway tracks after her family scolded him for smoking marijuana. It happened Monday afternoon during a confrontation between the suspect and the woman’s husband and grandson on a...
Los Angeles faces lawsuit over marijuana delivery licenses
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two marijuana trade organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against the nation’s largest legal pot market over restrictions on stand-alone delivery services that have blocked them from obtaining licenses until 2025. The lawsuit against Los Angeles and its Department of Cannabis...
First Kansas City-area medical marijuana dispensary opens
LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) — The first medical marijuana dispensary in the Kansas City area drew a good-sized crowd when it opened Monday, despite having limited supplies or varieties for customers. Dozens of people lined up before Fresh Green opened in Lee's Summit. The owners, Rob and Bianca Sullivan, plan...
Long lines as Missouri medical marijuana dispensaries open
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri's first licensed marijuana dispensaries opened this weekend in the St. Louis area with long lines. The two dispensaries run by N'Bliss opened Saturday in Ellisville and Manchester. Another dispensary is expected to open Monday in the Kansas City area nearly two years after...
Cresco Labs CEO talks legal marijuana industry challenges
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Demand for marijuana products in U.S. states where they are legal in some form has been resilient this year, despite the pandemic. In California and other states that account for most of the retail sales of marijuana for recreational use, sales are up 8.5% from a year ago, according to...
Ex-mayor, aide, face January trial on corruption charges
BOSTON (AP) — The trial of a former Massachusetts mayor and his chief of staff facing corruption charges is scheduled to start early next year. U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock at a hearing this week said he expects the trial of former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia II and Gen Andrade to start...
Virginia's 1st medical cannabis processor opens in Bristol
BRISTOL, Va. (AP) — Virginia's first medical cannabis processor has officially opened to patients. Dharma Pharmaceuticals held a grand opening Saturday morning in Bristol. It's one of four pharmaceutical processors approved in the state to produce medical marijuana, TV station WCYB reported. Lisa Smith...
Explosion at New Mexico cannabis plant critically injures 2
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two men are in critical condition after an explosion at a cannabis manufacturing facility in New Mexico. The explosion Thursday at the New MexiCann Natural Medicine facility in Santa Fe was the second explosion that has injured workers at the plant in the last five years, the...
Authorities: Top Mexico official helped smuggle drugs to US
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mexico’s former defense secretary helped a cartel smuggle thousands of kilograms of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States in exchange for bribes, according to court documents unsealed Friday. Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, 72, acted on behalf of...
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