The Juneau Assembly has established zoning for marijuana cultivation, processing and retail.

Pot entrepreneurs will be able to grow their crop in some low-density neighborhoods, outside the city’s urban service boundary. That includes parts of North Douglas, Thane and out the road.

Margo Waring, who lives on North Douglas, testified that she was concerned about the scale of commercial grow operations.

“We’re not looking at your backyard raised veggie bed. This is an indoor industrial activity,” Waring said.

Grow facilities, in the designated D1 areas, are limited to under 500 square feet or about the size of a two-car garage. Residents will be able to voice concerns with the city on a case-by-case basis if issues come up.

A small but growing movement to establish a division for cannabis chemists within the American Chemical Society (ACS) has scored a major victory with the establishment of a cannabis chemistry subdivision (CANN). The development comes in response to substantial recent growth in the medical and commercial cannabis industries in the US.

By Anthony Johnson

People are advocating for medical marijuana for ‘less than pure reasons,’ says Edward Bednarczyk

BUFFALO, N.Y. – When medical marijuana dispensaries in Oregon opened their doors to sell to anyone who is 21 years or older last month, the lines between recreation and medicine were officially blurred, said Edward Bednarczyk, PharmD, pharmacy practice chair in the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Proposals to City Council would extend 2-year moratorium on new entrants for recreational pot licenses and add ban on new medical licenses

Denver's marijuana regulators are asking the City Council to expand rules that would bar any new players from entering the state's largest market.

It was hard for Tiffany Wu to tell her conservative, first-generation Chinese American parents she was quitting her high-paying job at a Silicon Valley law firm. It was even harder for the Harvard Law School grad to tell them that she was quitting so she could advise clients in the cannabis industry — and that she smokes weed regularly.

Wu’s childhood friend Monica Lo, a creative director at a San Francisco startup, got the same horrified reaction when she came out of what she calls “the green closet” to her first-generation Chinese American parents about the same time earlier this year.

Why should California and Colorado capitalize on America's budding pot craze and economic boon -- and not Florida?

Growing numbers of Americans believe pot should be legal for medical and personal use. Miami-Dade recently gave cops discretion to hand out citations instead of handcuffs for anyone caught with a baggy of marijuana. Broward and Palm Beach should follow suit soon.

With our sun, sand and surf, no other place on the planet is more primed to take advantage of the American Pot Era than South Florida. Now is the time to pave the way.

Five reasons South Florida should decriminalize pot:

Guitar warlord Jimi Hendrix was frequently photographed with a gigantic bifter dangling from his mouth – and his appetite for hard drugs was so legendary that, er, he died age 27.

Now you can enjoy that legacy with an official Hendrix-branded cannabis-vaping ‘HazeStick’.

Well, semi-official at least – they’re endorsed by the guitarist’s brother, Leon Hendrix, and sold in American states where dope is legal.

The vaporisers are being sold under licence in the US by JackSam corporation – and can be used with weed or cannabis oil.

Do you ever wonder who grows your cannabis? Tom Lauerman has devoted his life to organic farming and normalizing the perception of cannabis in mainstream America. This documentary shows Lauerman tending to his crop and explaining his life story and philosophy on cannabis.

Even though his farm is facing foreclosure, Lauerman remains optimistic, citing the recent changes in cannabis laws in the US. "If I show up and do the work every day," he says, "great things are going to happen."

Amendment Would Allow VA Doctors to Recommend Medical Marijuana to Their Patients in States Where It’s Legal

The Senate today passed the FY2016 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs (MilCon-VA) Appropriations Bill, which includes language to allow Veterans Administration (VA) doctors to recommend medical marijuana to their patients in states where medical marijuana is legal. The language was included as an amendment in the Senate Appropriations committee in May.