SEATTLE — With a deadline looming for the merging of Washington’s recreational and medical marijuana markets, cities around the state are warning unlicensed pot dispensaries to close up shop. July 1 marks the date when,

PORTLAND — The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has approved four software companies for tracking retail marijuana sales, a requirement of the state’s recreational marijuana licensees. Oregon’s rules for recreational marijuana retailers require that they record their

JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska regulators were applauded Thursday as they approved the first licenses for legal marijuana growing and testing facilities — another milestone for the fledgling industry. Priority was being given to growing and

PORTLAND — After months of public hearings with pot growers, lawmen, public health officials and others, an Oregon commission is racing to finalize recreational marijuana regulations and issue licenses to hundreds of businesses within a

TACOMA — Tacoma will end its hands-off approach to unlicensed marijuana retailers July 1. Beginning that day, Tacoma tax and license compliance officers will inspect all known marijuana retailers in Tacoma and issue suspension

PORTLAND — Ray Berrian has been smoking marijuana for years. But on Thursday he walked into a store on a busy street in the Portland suburbs and legally bought an “edible” — three small squares

One of the founders of Vancouver’s first retail recreational marijuana store can talk about his enterprise for more than 20 minutes without mentioning any of the many names for his products. “We’re trying to

The Vancouver City Council on Monday didn’t embrace the city Planning Commission’s recommendation that the city further expand its number of retail marijuana shops from nine to 12. Neither did councilors like the commission’s recommendation

A Vancouver man who gave his 4-year-old daughter marijuana-infused chocolate cake was sentenced Friday to two years in prison. John Batten, 28, entered guilty pleas in Clark County Superior Court to delivering a controlled substance

REDMOND, Ore. — Last year, Lindsey Pate and her husband, Christopher, bought 15 acres of high desert covered in junipers in central Oregon, where they planned to grow marijuana in greenhouses to sell for recreational