The Chicago City Council's Black Caucus is threatening to push back the sale of recreational marijuana in the city. Caucus chairman Alderman Jason Ervin is planning to introduce an ordinance today that would prevent legal marijuana sales until July 1st, 2020. The caucus is expressing concerns that no people of color will be among the owners of the businesses allowed to sell weed when it's legalized January 1st. #MarijuanaNews #PotNews #BlackCaucus

The legal cannabis industry is budding before our eyes, and in just over two months, it'll really take shape in our neighbor to the north. Following the passage of the Cannabis Act by the House of Commons and the Senate in June, recreational marijuana is set to officially go on sale on Oct. 17. This legalization should result in billions of dollars flowing into the legal Canadian cannabis industry, and perhaps even validate investors' belief that pot stocks are the next great

Charges are being filed in Southern California after a so-called church was doing a little more than just preaching. L.A. County Sheriff's deputies seized more than 20-thousand-dollars worth of marijuana from the Citadel Church of La Puente on Wednesday afternoon and say it was after a three-week investigation. Detectives had been tipped off that the church wasn't a church at all but was actually an illegal marijuana dispensary. Two people were arrested in connection to the r