California Pot Shops Roll Out Hoopla As Sales Set To Start
Marijuana legalization arrives Monday in California with lots of hoopla, but only a handful of cities will initially have retail outlets ready to sell recreational pot.
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Marijuana legalization arrives Monday in California with lots of hoopla, but only a handful of cities will initially have retail outlets ready to sell recreational pot.
With recreational marijuana set to become legal Monday in California for anyone 21 and over, some people will be tossing their state-issued cards.
Doctors caution that the health effects of marijuana on a fetus remain unclear but could include low birth weight and developmental problems.
Move over, pot brownies. The world's largest legal recreational marijuana market kicks off Monday in California.
It's impossible to know exactly how many growers statewide are planning to go legal.
An Elk Grove man was arrested in Indiana after authorities say they found more than 100 pounds of marijuana in the car he was driving.
"Buyer beware," cautioned Donald Land, a University of California, Davis, chemistry professor who is the chief scientific consultant at Steep Hill Labs Inc., which tests marijuana in several states.
California on Thursday issued its first batch of business licenses for the state's upcoming legal marijuana market, setting the stage for sales to begin in January.
Teen drinking, smoking and drug use overall are stable, but the percentage of teens using marijuana is increasing, according to a new report.
Now that pot will soon be legal in California, a Monterey County mayoral candidate is looking beyond marijuana to mushrooms.
The four young men had just started their marijuana harvest in rural Northern California when a dozen sheriff's deputies swooped in with guns drawn, arrested them and spent the day chopping down 150 bushy plants with machetes.
The lawsuit claims officers with assault rifles arrested the couple Oct. 7 and held them for several hours inside a police cruiser.
The largest legal marijuana marketplace in the U.S. is taking shape - at least on paper.
Two men posing as officers robbed a home in Grass Valley reportedly used as a commercial marijuana operation.
If you're dreaming about striking it rich in the burgeoning legal marijuana industry, it'll help to have an advanced science degree
Right now, any bank with federal ties won't accept marijuana money. That means debit or credit cards won't work for purchases at pot shops.
California should use armored cars to transport hundreds of millions of dollars in cash tax payments expected next year with the state's legal marijuana market, the state treasurer said Tuesday.
California's legal marijuana marketplace is coming with a kaleidoscope of new taxes and fees that could influence where it's grown, how pot cookies and other munchies are produced and the price tag on just about everything.
The Sacramento pot chief is making a bold statement after a scathing audit finds widespread non-compliance within the city's pot shops.
Buying legal marijuana in California could be pricey enough to keep the black market healthy.
While the state is heading in the right direction, it's really up to each local entity to make up its mind about cannabis.
In general, California will treat cannabis like alcohol, allowing people 21 and older to legally possess up to an ounce and grow six marijuana plants at home.
Past research on human and rodent models has shown that marijuana use may generally increase arousal.
Desperate to see if wildfires had damaged his farm, Marcos Morales gunned his four-wheel-drive station wagon along the hidden dirt roads that crisscross Sonoma County vineyards.
We may be a few months away from the legalization of recreational pot but Sacramento police are cracking down on illegal pot grows in the city.
