A bake sale for medical marijuana-laced edibles scheduled for August 1 has been quashed by the SF Department of Public Health after a new supervisor there ruled that such events aren't legal, as SF Evergreen reports. Though vendors at the first Get Baked Sale in June — which garnered national coverage from the Associated Press because of its newness, and maybe because it seemed questionably legal under city law — only sold their goods to patients with valid medical marijuana cards, DPH inspector Larry Kessler, who took over the cannabis beat on July 1, says the event sounds like it's been set up "to skirt local law," because in SF selling medical marijuana to ten or more people requires a dispensary permit.

As the legal marijuana market continues to grow, reports of synthetic marijuana problems have also increased. What issynthetic marijuana, though? Sold under names such as Spice, Spike, K2, and Black Mamba, these manufactured drugs appear in liquor stores and head shops around the world, marketed as safe, non-narcotic alternatives to marijuana.

f Florida legalizes medical marijuana, it could lead to increased pot use by youths, a Florida International University study suggests.

It's happened in other states that have passed laws allowing marijuana to be used to treat pain, nausea, vomiting and other medical conditions, according to research led by Lisa Stolzenberg, an FIU professor of criminal justice.

During 2010-11, the most recent year in the study, 9.7 percent of high school students reported using pot in states that had legalized medical marijuana, compared to 6.8 percent in states that outlawed it. And the survey showed that pot use among youth in states that legalized it has risen since 2004 and has consistently been higher than in states where it's illegal.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hotel San Ayre today officially re-opens as a Bud+Breakfast™ property, owned and operated by The MaryJane Group, Inc. (OTCQB: MJMJ). Joining the company’s two existing Bud+Breakfast locations in the Denver area, Hotel San Ayre is poised to offer guests seeking a cannabis-themed vacation even more opportunities for education and enjoyment.

Pot use among teens has decreased since 2002, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. In addition, teens today disapprove of pot use more than teens a did a decade ago, the study reports.

Recent changes to marijuana laws in certain states have raised questions about how the use of pot could change, but lead researcher Christopher Salas-Wright believes the study proves that those who were concerned have nothing to worry about. Salas-Wright talked to Yahoo! Parenting about the use of pot among teenagers.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Applications for permits to open new medical pot dispensaries are increasing as the state prepares to allow the businesses to sell retail marijuana to anyone over 21.

Figures obtained by The Associated Press from the Oregon Public Health Division show that since Measure 91 passed last November, there have been 411 new applications to open medical marijuana dispensaries and 51 since the start of July, when the Legislature voted to allow medical marijuana dispensaries to start selling recreational pot on Oct. 1. There were 203 in the six months before the election.

Donald Morse, a dispensary owner and director of the Oregon Cannabis Business Council, says the market is saturated, with three dispensaries recently going out of business.

Applications for permits to open new medical pot dispensaries are increasing as the state prepares to allow the businesses to sell retail marijuana to anyone over 21.

Figures obtained by The Associated Press from the Oregon Public Health Division show that since Measure 91 passed last November, there have been 411 new applications to open medical marijuana dispensaries and 51 since the start of July, when the Legislature voted to allow medical marijuana dispensaries to start selling recreational pot on Oct. 1. There were 203 in the six months before the election.

Donald Morse, a dispensary owner and director of the Oregon Cannabis Business Council, says the market is saturated, with three dispensaries recently going out of business.

DENVER — A year after Colorado's marijuana tax for schools came in far short of its goal, the fund is setting records and has accrued more money in the first five months in 2015 than it did for all of 2014.

Recently released tax data showed the 15 percent excise tax for school construction hit $3.5 million in May, the most recent data available. That brings the 2015 total to $13.7 million, edging the $13.3 million it raised in all of 2014.

The jump is partly because there are more marijuana stores and partly because shops last year were given a one-time tax-exempt transfer of their medical plants to the recreational pot side.

"It sounds very encouraging," said state senator Pat Steadman, D-Denver.

New York’s medical marijuana program is about to achieve liftoff, but so far New Yorkers have few clues as to who will grow the herb, process it and sell it in a non-smokable form.

Despite all the hurdles — such as the fact that marijuana is illegal under federal law — 43 companies have applied for state Health Department licenses to sell pot products. A decision on five licensees could come any day now, though companies competing for the licenses say they remain in the dark about how far along the process is.

One of them is Etain LLC of Katonah, Westchester County. Etain’s proposal calls for a greenhouse growing facility in Chestertown, Warren County, with dispensaries in Kingston, Yonkers, Albany and Syracuse.

Last month, hundreds of visitors mingled outside three conferences being held side by side in New York City’s massive Javits Center. Sharing lines for lattes with their neighbors from the Salesforce and International Franchise Expo meetings down the hall, attendees of the Cannabis World Conference & Business Exposition could only have been picked out of the business-casual crowd by a careful observer thanks to one detail: the green accents on their name badges.