Most Native American tribes are opting not to legalize marijuana, though at least two are poised to try it — just six months after a Justice Department memo indicated federal authorities likely would not interfere with growing marijuana on tribal lands if other federal crimes were not committed.

Many tribes exploring their options said that as U.S. citizens and sovereign nations, they deserve the right to choose to legalize as states have done. However, tribes continue to balk at the vague language of the Justice Department's so-called "Cole Memorandum" and the fear of federal prosecution.

Tribes are weighing the risks and opportunities of legalizing pot

This New Year’s Eve, Tony Reider wants to throw a party unlike any his South Dakota tribe has seen.

There will be live music, food, outdoor games—and, floating over the revelry, a haze of marijuana smoke, from a first-of-its-kind pot lounge that is set to open by the end of the year, said Reider, the tribal president of the Flandreau Santee Sioux in Flandreau, S.D.

That pot lounge—modeled on an Amsterdam coffee shop, where customers would be able to buy and smoke up to 2 grams of marijuana a day—would be illegal anywhere else in South Dakota, which, like most U.S. states, bans the sale, possession and public smoking of pot.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Nearly one in five high school students who said they used electronic cigarettes to vaporize nicotine also used them to vaporize pot, according to a survey of nearly 4,000 Connecticut teens.

The study, published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, is the first evidence that teens are using electronic cigarettes to vaporize cannabis, the researchers said.

Three staff recommendations for the proposed Medical Marijuana Innovation Zone will be discussed at Tuesday’s regularly scheduled Arcata Planning Commission meeting.

The zone is intended to create an area in the city where businesses can manufacture, cultivate and process medical marijuana. At the commission meeting on Aug. 22, the commission agreed to include the former Humboldt Flakeboard property and nine other parcels of land off West End Road in Arcata in the zone.

NEW YORK – Young African American and Latino mothers with their children walk down the bustling blocks of Liberty and Fulton in the East New York section of Brooklyn. Boys' sneakers scuffle on the cement courts at the park where they play a pickup basketball game.

East New York is home to nearly 175,000 people. Less than 10 percent are Caucasian and most are younger than 45 years old. Many of them seldom leave Brooklyn. About 35 percent live below the poverty line, and only about 8 percent have earned a college degree. The 75th Precinct, which encompasses the area, has accounted for the second-highest number of marijuana possession summons in New York in 2015, similar to the years when it accounted for the most marijuana arrests.

Eddie Miller is the founder and CEO of InvestInCannabis, a New York Ci

Dixie Brands Inc., in partnership with TBSK LLC, has announced the debut of Therabis, an innovative medical pet supplement containing trace elements of hemp-derived CBD and other natural ingredients. The product has been formulated to deal with common dog health problems, including allergic itching, separation anxiety and joint mobility. It will become available nationwide in November through Therabis.com.

• WeedHire International has been selected as a Platinum Sponsor of the New York Distance Learning Association.

• The organization works to place qualified individuals in the legal cannabis industry.

Students taking online courses in the New York City area may soon gain access to resources intended to help them find jobs in the legal marijuana industry.

Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is set to become the first ever sitting senator to give a keynote speech for a cannabis industry conference later in September, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The conference, put on by the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA), is scheduled for Sept. 21 in New York City and will attract hundreds of cannabis professionals from all over the United States. Discussions and workshops will address issues like marijuana policy reform, patient care and navigating business practices in a legal environment where the drug is still classified under Schedule I, making it illegal as far as the federal government is concerned.

NEW YORK: Marijuana-infused wine is the latest craze in wine-making, and it also adds flavor and structure to wines.

Carl Ruck of Boston University has said that fortifying herbal additives to wine has been documented by archaeological evidence.

Ruck explained that there were a few Bronx agers who were thought to have used pot-wine as a shortcut to fun, Vinepair reported. 

He said that cannabis would be one of the less dangerous additives entries in the wine fortification market, and added that evidence for the additives came from folkloric traditions and the practice was apparently often employed in the making of home brews.

Marijuana wine is available and legal in America, and probably will become increasingly so in the years to come.