When local leaders ban state-licensed stores, data indicates they create economic protection zones for street dealers. Read more

Tuesday's vote may be a precursor to dozens of similar ballots across Michigan. Want legal cannabis? Turns out you have to vote for it twice. Read more

Rural counties tend to ban cannabis stores, urban areas allow them. It's not just a stereotype. The data proves it. Read more

Hungry for tax revenue, Calaveras County licensed hundreds of commercial cannabis farms in recent years. Now it wants them gone, leaving growers in the lurch. Read more

A growing number of Massachusetts communities are leaving their borders open to cannabis businesses, bucking an early wave of bans and moratoriums. Read more

Writing local rules in the cannabis-friendly city has taken a contentious turn as critics try to restrict where products can be sold. Read more

How (and why) the state's conservative bastions are learning to stop worrying and accept the cannabis industry. Read more

The prospect of cannabis-tax proceeds has raised spirits in Colorado towns, but small communities are finding costs as well as benefits. Read more

A typo in California’s new medical cannabis law threatening patients’ access to medicine and underscoring a deep cultural rift in the state. Read more

Here's a list of the 79 cities and 17 counties in Oregon that have banned dispensaries, cultivation, processing or wholesale. Read more