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Some Ohio employers bracing if pot is legalized

 
Cincinnati area businesses are already pondering what they should do if Ohio votes this fall to legalize marijuana, including use of medicinal pot on the job.
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Nevada's First Medical Marijuana Dispensary to Open Friday in Sparks

Landon Miller ~ KTVN.com ~
 
Despite two years of delays, the state’s first MMJ dispensary is ready to open its doors.
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Blossoming Denver-based marijuana credit union denied by Feds; suit filed

Kieran Nicholson ~ Denver Post ~
 
A Denver-based credit union aiming to become the first of its kind — one created to serve the Colorado marijuana industry — has suffered a setback.
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The most pernicious marijuana myth, debunked

 
A new study is raising hackles about pot-laced edibles. The statistics really aren't as alarming as they seem.
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New York's Medical Marijuana Licenses Expected to Be Awarded by Friday

 
The New York Department of Health is expected to announce either Thursday or Friday which five companies it has selected to award licenses to grow medical marijuana under the Compassionate Care Act.
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Wyoming begins study on impact of potential marijuana legalization

 
A Marijuana Impact Council will study the health, economic and social impacts of potentially legalizing cannabis in the state.
Chef Coreen Carroll, right, and fiance Ryan Bush host their Canaisseur series dinner pop-up, which pairs gourmet courses with marijuana. Photo by Albert Law. www.porkbellystudio.com

'Cannaisseurs': Pop-up dinner pairs marijuana with gourmet food, wine

 
At chef Coreen Carroll’s latest pop-up dinner series, people may ask you to “pass the weed,” and no one will think it’s strange.
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State Bar of Michigan creates special division for cannabis attorneys


Attorneys specializing in marijuana law now have their own division within the State Bar of Michigan.
Reefer Madness, also titled A Burning Question in some prints, was a 1930s propaganda film intended to spook parents about drug use. Image via BU.

Evolving Attitudes, and Science, about Marijuana

Rich Barlow ~ BU Today ~

Boston University course surveys America’s pot policy through the decades.

A woman looking for work in the cannabis industry fills out a form in front at the CannaSearch job fair in downtown Denver. File photo from March 13, 2014. Reuters/Rick Wilking/Files

In rise of U.S. vape shops, owners eye new marijuana market

 
Shop owners seek to capitalize not only on the vaping trend, but on the more widespread, and legal, use of medical marijuana.

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