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Kentucky Senate proposes conditions for providing funds for the state's Office of Medical Cannabis

Mar. 18, 2024 18:50 PM EDT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Language put in the main budget bill by the Kentucky Senate would set conditions to unlock funding to oversee the state's medical cannabis program, which is scheduled to take effect at the start of 2025. The two sentences inserted by senators came up for...

New York to probe sputtering legal marijuana program as storefronts lag, black market booms

Mar. 18, 2024 13:30 PM EDT

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing program after lawsuits and bureaucratic stumbles severely hampered the legal market and allowed black-market sellers to flourish, Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered Monday. The review will focus on ways...

Vice President Harris, rapper Fat Joe team up for discussion on easing marijuana penalties

Mar. 15, 2024 18:30 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and rapper Fat Joe led a White House discussion Friday on easing marijuana penalties, with Harris saying it’s “absurd” that the federal government classifies marijuana as more dangerous than fentanyl, the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of...

A Greek police officer with 225 pounds of marijuana in his patrol car is arrested after a chase

Mar. 15, 2024 15:28 PM EDT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A police officer on patrol duty in northwestern Greece was arrested on drugs charges Friday for allegedly using his service car to smuggle marijuana, authorities said. The suspect was detained in the port town of Igoumenitsa following a road chase, together...

Massachusetts governor to pardon those convicted of misdemeanor cannabis possession

Mar. 13, 2024 19:05 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday said she would issue pardons for tens of thousands of people convicted of misdemeanor marijuana charges going back decades in the latest example of a state ambitiously seeking to forgive low-level drug offenders. If...

Rats are high on marijuana evidence at an infested police building, New Orleans chief says

Mar. 13, 2024 18:33 PM EDT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rats have gotten into confiscated pot at New Orleans' aging police headquarters, munching the evidence as the building is taken over by mold and cockroaches, said the city's police chief. “The rats eating our marijuana, they're all high,” Police...

In ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ film, what's his faith? And why is marijuana deemed holy to the Rastafari?

Mar. 13, 2024 13:27 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” has been a box-office hit in the United States and several other countries. The film, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, is focused on the Rastafari legend’s story during the making of his 1977 album “Exodus” while leading up to a momentous...

Purple Ohio? Parties in the former bellwether state take lessons from 2023 abortion, marijuana votes

Mar. 12, 2024 12:40 PM EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — For more than half a century, Ohio was one of the most important states to watch during presidential election years, a place where both parties competed vigorously for support from voters who were often genuinely undecided. Then came Donald Trump. ...

Massachusetts governor to issue pardons for those convicted of cannabis possession

Mar. 11, 2024 20:02 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey plans to announce this week that she's following the lead of President Joe Biden and issuing pardons to those convicted of simple possession of cannabis at the state level, her office said Monday. The move could touch the lives of tens...

Nothing to sniff at: Bill would help pay to retire Ohio drug-detecting K9s under legal cannabis

Mar. 07, 2024 17:04 PM EST

WHITEHALL, Ohio (AP) — Two Ohio lawmakers are looking to ease a looming financial burden on law enforcement agencies in their state that will have to replace marijuana-sniffing dogs after voters approved a plan last year to legalize recreational marijuana use. Nearly 400 police...