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Herbtender Amy Johnson displays Dutch Treat, left, and Day Purps, two of their most popular products from Doc &amp; Yeti Urban Farms, at the newest location of The Herbery.

Washington pot sales decline for first time in the decade since legalization

Herbtender Amy Johnson displays Dutch Treat, left, and Day Purps, two of their most popular products from Doc &amp; Yeti Urban Farms, at the newest location of The Herbery.

December 19, 2022, 7:33am Business

This December marks a decade since Washington state became one of the first two states in the U.S. to legalize marijuana. Read story

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Hazel Dell bar owner arrested after dispute with cannabis dispensary staff

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October 31, 2022, 1:16pm Clark County News

A Hazel Dell bar owner was arrested Saturday night after allegedly threatening employees at a nearby cannabis dispensary and assaulting a responding Clark County sheriff’s deputy. Read story

Detectives are looking for three armed robbers seen in surveillance video from Sticky's Pot Shop in Hazel Dell on Sept. 19.

Suspects sought robbery at Sticky’s Pot Shop in Hazel Dell

Detectives are looking for three armed robbers seen in surveillance video from Sticky's Pot Shop in Hazel Dell on Sept. 19.

October 20, 2022, 11:02am Clark County News Free

Sheriff’s deputies released photos Thursday of a Sept. 19 robbery at Sticky’s Pot Shop in Hazel Dell, in hopes the publicity will help identify the robbers. Read story

Ramsey Doudar, fulfillment lead at The Reef and leader a consumer advocacy group called Patients and Users for Reasonable Cannabis Policy, on Sept. 28, 2022, in Seattle.

Researchers warn of mental health risks of high-potency cannabis

Ramsey Doudar, fulfillment lead at The Reef and leader a consumer advocacy group called Patients and Users for Reasonable Cannabis Policy, on Sept. 28, 2022, in Seattle.

October 9, 2022, 6:03am Health

Researcher Beatriz Carlini clicks through a few local cannabis retailers’ websites before finding what she’s looking for. Read story

High End Market Place store manager Jeffrey Hickok said he often recommends cannabis flower to help counteract chemotherapy side effects such as nausea and pain.

Is cannabis a solution for breast cancer patients’ chemo side effects?

High End Market Place store manager Jeffrey Hickok said he often recommends cannabis flower to help counteract chemotherapy side effects such as nausea and pain.

October 9, 2022, 5:39am Breast Cancer

The months after a breast cancer diagnosis can be frightening as patients weigh the pros and cons of treatment approaches. Patients may discuss radiation, chemotherapy, mastectomies and reconstruction with their oncologists. These days, there’s another thing that patients might add to that list: cannabis. Read story

Brothers Chris, left, and Alex Shreeve at the Belltown location of their cannabis shop The Baker?(C)?(C). The cannabis industry is inherently a risky space, said Chris Shreeve.

Amazon still says no to drugs, and is booting marijuana businesses

Brothers Chris, left, and Alex Shreeve at the Belltown location of their cannabis shop The Baker?(C)?(C). The cannabis industry is inherently a risky space, said Chris Shreeve.

October 2, 2022, 6:02am Business

For nine years, Arnold Marcus had been making a living selling spice grinders on Amazon. Read story

The Healing Center, a marijuana dispensary, in Needles, California, on July 16, 2019.

California passes bill to protect workers who smoke pot off the clock

The Healing Center, a marijuana dispensary, in Needles, California, on July 16, 2019.

September 5, 2022, 6:02am Business

California could soon become the seventh state in the United States to protect its pot-smoking employees. Read story

Security guard Austin MacMath wears a gun on his belt, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, while working outside Mary Mart, a marijuana store in Tacoma, Wash. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. (AP Photo/Ted S.

Washington pot shop robberies, deaths fuel calls for U.S. banking bill

Security guard Austin MacMath wears a gun on his belt, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, while working outside Mary Mart, a marijuana store in Tacoma, Wash. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. (AP Photo/Ted S.

April 20, 2022, 2:25pm Business

A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops — including a pistol-whipping, gunshots and killings in Washington state last month — is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. Read story

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, right, takes a tour of the Everest Cannabis Co.-Uptown with CEO Trishelle Kirk on the first day of recreational cannabis sales, Friday April 1, 2022, Albuquerque.

New Mexico launches cannabis sales within Texans’ reach

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, right, takes a tour of the Everest Cannabis Co.-Uptown with CEO Trishelle Kirk on the first day of recreational cannabis sales, Friday April 1, 2022, Albuquerque.

April 1, 2022, 5:36pm Business

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico brought recreational marijuana sales to the doorstep of Texas, the largest prohibition state, as the movement toward broad legalization sweeps up even more of the American West. Read story

Jessica Owl, weighs True North Collective recreational marijuana, during packaging in Jackson, Mich., Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Over the past few years, Jonny Griffis has invested millions of dollars in his legal marijuana farm in northern Michigan, which produces extracts to be used in things like gummy bears and vape oils. But now that farm -- like many other licensed grows in states that have legalized marijuana -- faces an existential threat: high-inducing cannabis compounds derived not from the heavily regulated and taxed legal marijuana industry, but from a chemical process involving little-regulated, cheaply grown hemp.

High from hemp: States wrestle with chemically made THC

Jessica Owl, weighs True North Collective recreational marijuana, during packaging in Jackson, Mich., Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Over the past few years, Jonny Griffis has invested millions of dollars in his legal marijuana farm in northern Michigan, which produces extracts to be used in things like gummy bears and vape oils. But now that farm -- like many other licensed grows in states that have legalized marijuana -- faces an existential threat: high-inducing cannabis compounds derived not from the heavily regulated and taxed legal marijuana industry, but from a chemical process involving little-regulated, cheaply grown hemp.

March 28, 2022, 6:02am Business

Over the past few years, Jonny Griffis has invested millions of dollars in his legal marijuana farm in northern Michigan, which produces extracts to be used in things like gummy bears and vape oils. Read story