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Kevin Loria ~ Business Insider Rick Wilking/Reuters If you've had a rough day at work today, you're free to go home and crack open a beer or pour yourself something stronger.

Daniel Wallis ~ Reuters   DENVER, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Consumers in Colorado bought more than 17 tons of recreational marijuana buds during the first year of the state's new retail market, but sales of medicinal pot still outstripped that at almost 50 tons, officials said on Friday.

Jacob Sullum ~ Reason.com   The likely presidential candidates now says states should be free to legalize.

Associated Press / NBC4 Washington ~   Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe signed a bill Thursday that will allow patients with severe epilepsy to use cannabis oil without the fear of prosecution.

Leland Rucker ~ Bouder Weekly   About the time you think things couldn’t get any crazier in the American crazyquilt approach to cannabis

Bridgett Weaver ~ Greeley Tribune   Colorado made more than $52 million in tax revenue from the sale of recreational marijuana last year, creating for some small business owners a booming and legitimate business.

Lily Rothman ~ Time   American conservatives haven't always opposed legalizing pot

Melanie Moon ~ Fox 2 Now St. Louis   ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – For the first time in nearly 80 years cannabis will be grown legally in Missouri.

Bill Hendrick ~ Jacksonville.Com   Passage is nearly certain in Senate although numer of covered diseases could be cut

Jessica Mazzola ~ NJ.com   NEWARK — A New Jersey Assemblywoman said that in light of the formation of a group that launched last week to fight for the legalization of recreational marijuana use in New Jersey, she is planning a group that will actively advocate against it.

Al Jazeera America Staff   Island nation legalizes possession of two ounces of pot, use of the plant for religious purposes

Brian Koerber ~ Mashable   Some people like things a little fancier, and marijuana is no exception.

Husna Haq ~ The Christian Science Monitor   On Tuesday, Alaska became the first red state to legalize the smoking, growing, and owning of small amounts of marijuana. But smoking in public and buying and selling marijuana is still illegal. 

Brian Boesen ~ KWQC   DENVER, Co. – When Jessica Eberhart realized she couldn’t treat her daughter’s cancer with cannabis oil in Iowa, she and her family packed their bags and moved to Colorado.

Nick Wong ~ The International Examiner      Seattle Caregivers, a medical marijuana dispensary located on South Jackson Street, debuted the country’s first marijuana vending machine and has plans to take the trend nationwide.

Josh Raab ~ Time Magazine   This new approach to cannabis photography was created by the San Diego based company Nugshots.

Conor Gaffey ~ NewsWeek   You are 114 times more likely to die from overdosing on alchohol than you are from cannabis, a recent study has found.