OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Key officials helping to create Washington state's potentially lucrative recreational pot market say its success may hinge on preventing consumers from choosing to get high on readily available medical cannabis because of low and sometimes nonexistent taxes on it.Full story
Recreational vehicle and bus maker Thor Industries Inc. said Thursday that it topped $1 billion in quarterly sales for the first time. Full story
Marijuana taxation brought the Colorado Legislature to a standstill early Saturday, with the House giving up and heading home without voting after the pot debate stretched past midnight. Full story
All around the country, recreational events are on a parallel track with a nation on guard. NBC’s Michelle Franzen reports.
Boston Parks and Recreation employee Donald Ware washes down a sidewalk on Boylton Street as the city prepares to re-open the area to the general public in Boston Massachusetts, April 23, 2013. The street has been closed since last week's bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line. REUTERS/Pat Gre
Marijuana plants are ready to be harvested at a grow house in Denver on Jan. 26, 2013. Last fall, voters made Washington and Colorado the first states to pass laws legalizing the recreational use of marijuana and setting up systems of state-licensed growers, processors and retail stores where adults
Zhang Qingyuan, a resident of one of the apartment buildings where the local government built homes for former miners and farmers as part of an urbanisation programme, shows a traditional dance which he practises during a recreational activity, at an interview with Reuters in Mentougou district, in
