WEST RIDGE — A cannabis dispensary group is looking to open in a Peterson Avenue building where an earlier dispensary proposal was rejected. Eagle Dispensaries of Illinois is asking Ald. Andre Vazquez (40th) for a zoning change to open a dispensary at 2415 W. Peterson Ave., representatives said during a virtual community meeting last week....

DAYTON, Ky. — Kentucky’s first operational medical cannabis processor, Bison Processing, is opening in Dayton. As the first facility of its kind in the state, Bison Processing will be responsible for taking Kentucky-grown cannabis and transforming it into safe, lab-tested medical products—such as tinctures, edibles and topicals—for patients registered in the Kentucky Medical Cannabis Program....

In downtown Portland, as hundreds of Mainers gathered for an anti-ICE protest Saturday, others were there to gather signatures for a petition to repeal recreational marijuana in Maine.  Though, they didn’t present it as such. It’s about the testing of cannabis, one petitioner said.  Misrepresentation of this citizen initiative by signature gatherers has been documented...