On Thursday, December 11, 2014, the United States Department of Justice changed the landscape of the legal marijuana industry. They decided that Native American tribes across the country can grow and sell marijuana on their sovereign lands and must follow the federal guidelines in the four states where recreational marijuana is legal.

The United States is home to 326 federally recognized reservations and 566 federally recognized tribes, most of which are located in states that ban the use of marijuana for recreational purposes.

A leader emerges

High-tech medical cannabis delivery companies are racing to take marketshare in the Bay Area’s advanced and influential pot economy.

Seattle -- There are local tours for wine, spirits and beer. Now the latest Washington craft industry has a tour of its own too. Cannabis.

Michael Gordon is the co-founder of Kush Tourism, a Seattle company that, among other things, gives guided tours to places involved in Seattle budding marijuana business.

"We're always fighting against the public stigma and we think one of the best ways of getting over that is actually introducing people to the growers, to the people making chocolate in the stores, showing them where the dispensaries are and just giving them access to information." Said Gordon.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Eager night owls looking to score some of the first recreational pot in Oregon bought up baggies of bud at shops that opened early Thursday, some taking advantage of door-buster deals.

Some of the more than 250 dispensaries that already offer medical marijuana welcomed lines of enthusiasts soon after midnight — just moments after it became legal to sell to anyone who is at least 21. There were no reports of problems from early sales, although most stores planned to open at a more reasonable hour.

But members agreed: no more jail for marijuana offenses

DENVER -- Family physicians were divided over whether marijuana should be legalized for recreational use or simply decriminalized, but agreed that jail time for marijuana offences served no good.

When Oregon begins the first legal sales of recreational marijuana on Oct. 1, I'll be thinking about my Dad. He's a major reason I became a state lawmaker and have been helping implement Oregon's new marijuana law.

During the 1980s recession, Dad stopped taking a salary at the family rock crushing business. It was the only way he and my uncles could keep M.C. Lininger and Sons afloat. Mom warned that if the business closed, we might have to leave the Rogue Valley, where our family has lived for generations. Southern Oregon's economy was withering, and in many cases, the jobs never came back.

With 2016 due to be a huge year for marijuana legalization advocates, the questions have been coming fast and hard at next year’s presidential candidates – about both their personal feelings on cannabis, and how they would address marijuana policy.

Some of the responses we’ve heard have included blatant falsities – if not outright lies. This, of course, is to be expected during campaign season. But with marijuana legalization’s fate largely resting in the hands of the next administration, hearing candidates spout lies about, or exhibit a failure to understand cannabis in the least bit, is disheartening.

Here are seven of those big lies, and which candidates are espousing them.

After her epilepsy was treated with CBD oil, Lily became “alive” again

WALLED LAKE, Mich., Oct. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Michigan-based medical cannabis testing lab, IRON Laboratories, is expanding operations with a new HB3460 compliant testing facility opening in Eugene, Oregon today.

The new IRON Laboratories facility follows strict ISO/IEC 17025:2005 certified testing protocols to test for pesticides, impurities, and other contaminants, utilizing advanced chromatography and microbial analysis and will also offer consulting and research services as well as mobile testing on all cannabis products, both medicinal and recreational.

ping to jump-start a struggling industry, an Illinois medical marijuana business is launching a $1 million marketing campaign — despite a ban on advertising by growers in the state.

Cresco Labs, which plans to open three pot cultivation centers, on Wednesday announced it will spread its message through an outreach campaign that includes print advertising, radio commercials, billboards, social media and notices in health publication.

The ads feature health-related images like a swimmer and a jogger, with messages such as, "Welcome to a state of relief. Medical cannabis. Now growing in Illinois." The promotions feature the company logo and refer people to more information at crescolabs.com.