On its seventh day, the Illinois recreational cannabis industry was marked with short supplies, long lines, and in some cases, shuttered dispensaries Tuesday.

Several hundreds of black market marijuana products were seized and led to the arrest of a Massachusetts man. Peabody police said Gary Cioffi was arrested after authorities seized “several hundred thousand of dollars’ worth of illegal marijuana products.”

Recreational marijuana could be available for home delivery in Massachusetts after new regulations were approved by the Cannabis Control Commission. The commission, which implements and administers laws regarding medical and recreational marijuana in the Bay State, put the proposal to a vote on Tuesday. All but one commissioner voted in favor of regulations that would allow home delivery and marijuana...

New Hampshire lawmakers considered more than a dozen bills related to marijuana this year, but fewer than half of them became law. A push to have New Hampshire join others that have legalized recreational use of the drug fizzled, as did efforts to expand the qualifying conditions for the state’s medical marijuana program and to allow patients to grow their...

Gov. Charlie Baker is saying he’ll take his cues from the state’s Cannabis Control Commission on any proposed changes to the state’s marijuana law. The Republican was asked Monday if any changes were needed after Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia was arrested last week on charges he conspired to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies seeking to operate...

New Hampshire isn’t ready to legalize recreational marijuana use, but it is close to expanding options for those who use it for medical reasons.

A California appeals court says it’s legal to have small amounts of marijuana in prison — so long as inmates don’t inhale.

Sales of adult-use marijuana in Massachusetts have reached nearly $140 million through the end of May. Marijuana Business Daily reports that sales continue to rise through six months of operations following a November 2018 launch.

Residents and visitors in Worcester, Massachusetts will now be able to buy recreational marijuana thanks to the opening of a legal pot shop. Good Chemistry is open for business as of Wednesday as the town’s first recreational weed dispensary. It originally opened as a medical marijuana shop in August but will now be allowed to sell products to those without...

Worcester, Massachusetts is preparing to open its first recreational marijuana shop.

Potheads have for decades celebrated their love of marijuana on April 20, but the once counter-culture celebration that was all about getting stoned now is so mainstream Corporate America is starting to embrace it.

Voters in Westport, Massachusetts will decide this spring whether to allow farmers to grow marijuana and sell it to dispensaries. The Herald News reports that selectmen agreed to include the issue on the May town meeting agenda.

The lines outside the first pot shops in Massachusetts have had many seeing red, but state and local officials are seeing plenty of green when it comes to tax revenue.

Despite the rain Monday night, there was still a line outside Cultivate in Leicester, Massachusetts. “We’ve been waiting two hours in the car,” said Chris Mankoschewski. “Then you have to wait another hour just to get on the shuttle, and I don’t even know how long we’re going to wait in this line.” All that waiting is leading to frustration...

t’s been two years since Massachusetts residents voted “yes” to recreational marijuana and now, they’re able to buy it. With sales officially starting at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, the two legal pot shops so far, Leicester-based Cultivate and Northampton-based New England Treatment Access, are expecting long lines as they become the first two recreational marijuana dispensaries to open in the...

Big lines are expected Tuesday when Massachusetts opens its first two recreational marijuana shops in Northampton and Leicester. The state will become the seventh in the U.S. to allow adults over 21-years-old to purchase pot for recreational use and the first eastern state to do so. Both stores will operate as regulated, taxpaying businesses with a license.

Massachusetts is just a day away from its marijuana dispensaries opening up for the first recreational sales in the Commonwealth, making it the first state east of the Mississippi River to allow legal sales for adults. Both Cultivate, which is based in Leicester, and New England Treatment Access’ Northampton location will open at 8 a.m. Tuesday for legal recreational marijuana...

Massachusetts is getting ready for the state’s first two recreational marijuana shops to open.