For all the entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals who stand to benefit from a legal marijuana market, there are plenty of others who have a lot to lose. And they're fighting reform tooth and nail.
But who are they? And...
Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas billionaire, newspaper publisher, and casino magnate, is one of the Republican Party's wealthiest backers. He is also one of its staunchest.
And now Adelson, who has thrown at least $100 million into the campaigns of...
Life has not been especially easy for tourists who want to sample some of Colorado's famous legal weed. While the drug has been available at retail stores for almost three years, out-of-state visitors still have few places to use...
October is peak season for marijuana growers' expos, and there's a big one coming to Colorado at the end of the month.
The CannaGrow Expo, hosted in Denver from Oct. 29-30, is a gathering for cannabis cultivators who want to...
Archaeologists exploring an ancient burial site in China discovered a stash of 2,500-year-old marijuana plants, marking some of the oldest evidence of human pot consumption.
The team of scientists discovered 13 whole cannabis plants inside a tomb in northwest China....
The idea, organizers of the annual 420 Games say, is to "de-stigmatize" marijuana and the stoners who love to smoke it.
To that end, the 420 Games, which open in Portland later this month, feature "a series of unique athletic...
Confused Colorado stoners will have an easier time determining whether their chocolate bars, cookies, and iced coffee contain marijuana.
The new stamp required on all edible products sold in Colorado
State officials started enforcing a new rule in October that requires...
It makes perfect sense. Legal marijuana threatens the profit interests of the pharmaceutical companies that make competing medications. But now there's proof of the outsize role the industry is playing in the fight to stop pot reform.
Reports in September...
It's no secret the history of marijuana prohibition is a story of American racism. Like most other "dangerous" drugs, cannabis was initially banned because of its association with Mexican immigrants in the American Southwest.
That background has led some reformers...
Vaporizers are mostly good things. They make it easier, and a bit healthier, to consume marijuana, especially when it's used as medicine. They could also help tobacco users cut back or even quit cigarettes.
But not everything is as it...
