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Gas & Grass: Could buying weed at the gas station be the next big thing in Colorado?

Eric Lupher ~ TheDenverChannel.com ~
 
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The next big marijuana trend may have just hit the ground running in Colorado Springs. Soon, people there will be able to get gas and buy weed.
420 Dank, a medical dispensary in Detroit, is seen on Friday, September 11, 2015. Image: Salwan Georges via Detroit Free Press

Drive-through pot shops in Detroit worry Mayor Duggan, others

Matt Helms ~ Detroit Free Press ~

With some medical-marijuana stores in Detroit now offering drive-through purchasing, the city's marketplace for medical pot has spiraled out of control and needs to be regulated, Mayor Mike Duggan said.
Products on display at The Grass Station dispensary in Denver. Image: WeedWorthy.com

Pot is tax-free in Colorado on Wednesday

Katie Lobosco ~ CNN Money ~
 
For one day and one day only, you can get a 10% discount on recreational marijuana in Colorado. September 16 is a pot tax holiday, thanks to a quirky state law.
Florence Childs hopes to sell her Spokane-area Washington Pot Shop. Photo by Max Lathrop

Grandma Built A Pot Shop -- Now She Wants To Sell It

 
While many retirees spend time in their gardens, 82-year-old Florence Childs has chosen to work with another kind of plant.
Genifer Murray of CannLabs being interviewed at the NCIA Cannabis Business Summit, June 2014. Image via NCIA

The women in weed who could make legal marijuana a billion-dollar industry

Gogo Lidz ~ Irish Examiner ~
 
It seems fitting that a plant called Mary Jane could smash the patriarchy.
cannabis buds at a Denver grow facility. Image: WeedWorthy.com

Alcohol sales get higher after weed legalization contrary to industry fears

 
Alcohol businesses are seeing ‘phenomenal growth’ alongside marijuana industry in Colorado, dispelling concerns that consumers prefer pot over booze.
Stock trading on the New York Curb Association market, around 1916. Image via Wikimedia Commons

Amid the stock market volatility, turn to the stability of the marijuana market

Kathleen Burke ~ Marketwatch.com ~

With the recent stock market volatility, it’s difficult to know which industries will weather the storm. However, there’s one potential way to stay in the green.
Chicago skyline at evening. Image: Bert Kaufmann via Wikimedia Commons

Can Chicago Have a Thriving Marijuana Startup Scene? One Expert Weighs In.

 
Medical marijuana is officially growing--both literally and figuratively--in the state of Illinois, with cultivation centers producing strains that are expected to harvest around October.
A warning sign at a Purdue University research farm cautions visitors against taking cannabis sativa plants grown for research purposes. Image: Maureen Hayden/CNHI

Purdue University shows off first legal hemp fields in decades

Maureen Hayden, CNHI ~ News and Tribune ~
 
ROMNEY  – The high fence surrounding a Purdue University research farm here was installed to keep out pesky deer, but this summer it served a second purpose: Keeping federal drug agents at bay.
Dixie Brands, a Colorado manufacturer of marijuana-infused edibles, is expanding with non-psychoactive, CBD-infused products for people and pets that will be available throughout the U.S. Image: Denver Post file

Edibles giant unveils hemp CBD products for pets, people

Ricardo Baca  ~ Denver Post ~

Two new hemp-based product lines are coming from Colorado's Dixie Brands: Therabis is CBD-infused supplements for pets; Aceso has three formulas for human consumption.


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