Trevor Hughes ~ USA TODAY ~ 

 

DENVER – Marijuana tourists are preparing to flock to the Mile High City's massive pot festival next weekend.

Will Yakowicz ~ Inc. ~

 

Meadow, a San Francisco-based medical marijuana-delivery app, is the first cannabis-related company to sprout out of Y Combinator.

Trevor Hughes ~ USA TODAY ~

 

DENVER — While federal law makes their entire industry illegal, many marijuana store owners, growers and retailers fear something completely different: Big Tobacco.

Bruce Barcott ~ TIME ~

 

We no longer arrest 12,000 people every year for possessing marijuana in Washington state -

This year April 20 - the cannabis national holiday - falls on a Monday. Most of the events listed here take place over the 4/20 weekend.

Yahoo News ~

 

Kingston (Jamaica) (AFP) - US President Barack Obama had been on the verdant Caribbean island of Jamaica less than 24 hours -- and had already visited Bob Marley's former home -- before he was asked by a dreadlocked Rastafarian about legalizing marijuana.

Lisa Rough ~ Leafly ~

 

A new study from Columbia and Johns Hopkins Universities found that nonwhite, low-income women over the age of 50 is the demographic most likely to perceive using cannabis as a risky activity. 

Jim Braude ~ Boston Globe ~

 

Massachusetts can either make it happen now and get the law right, or wait and get it wrong.

Elana Ashanti Jefferson ~ The Cannabist ~

 

Fort Lupton's PureVision Technology wants to process hemp stalks for consumer-product manufacturing and plans large-scale biorefinery in Oregon.