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Pastor Jamal Bryant shares plans to launch Cannabis Business

Cannabis City clerk Will Bibbs, left, helps a customer looking over a display case of marijuana products at the shop in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
 
A year after legalization, cannabis tax revenues in the state have topped expectations and sales top $1.4 million per day.
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Inflation trimming back Cannabis spending, say retailers

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You may have a passion for the product, but getting the go-ahead to start growing and selling marijuana in Massachusetts can be a long, expensive and difficult path.
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Biden’s Statement on Marijuana Reform: What Does it Mean?

Robert Grandt works in the grow room at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver on March 11. Marijuana growing facilities contributed to the city's energy use increase. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
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Metro Denver’s surging legal marijuana industry means surging energy usage in the region.
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Marijuana Legalization In Europe: Is France Next? – Cannabis News

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Medical Marijuana policies for Schools in the Works

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As pot laws liberalize, cannabis capitalists eye opportunities for business—and to upend stereotypes. But can white-collar workers handle it, man?
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Office of Cannabis Policy hosts town-hall Discussion on Industry

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Edibles could emerge as a multimillion-dollar food industry in the northwestern U.S. in the next few years
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Marijuana vs. Hemp: What's the Difference? – Cannabis News

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Kentucky senator backs legalizing marijuana to fund state's pensions crisis - Cannabis News

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JOHNSTOWN, Ohio -- Andy Joseph didn't seek the marijuana industry -- it found him.
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What Is The Best Time Of Day To Get High?

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The hype over hemp that erupted last year during Colorado's first sensational flirtations with the marijuana look-alike is now starting to live up to expectations. 
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Filmmaking Couple Touches on Medical Marijuana's Social Stigma - Cannabis News

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Inside a cannabis shop's emerging business model
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DEA Will Begin Granting Marijuana Cultivation Licenses

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Colorado’s effort to tax marijuana as a means to help the state budget never materialized, at least financially, slowing expansion of industries supported by the drug. As attempts to approve marijuana’s use in other states and cities falters, these industries face unexpected road blocks.
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Federal raids cool tribal excitement over potential marijuana profits – Marijuana News

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This weekend, Alaska saw its first-ever job fair for careers in commercial cannabis, offering a glimpse of how the semi-legal marijuana industry is taking tentative steps towards professionalism and profits.
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U.S. hemp production doubles in 2017, Colorado grows twice as much as anyone - Cannabis News

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CARSON CITY, NV — Lawmakers in Nevada have unanimously passed a bill to authorize hemp cultivation, sending the bill to Republican Governor Brian Sandoval for final approval.
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The Marijuana Evolution Of Senator Orrin Hatch - Cannabis News

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More than 2,000 people descended on the Hilton Chicago in the South Loop for the three-day Marijuana Business Conference and Expo.
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Who works in the cannabis industry? A new trade association ad campaign shows its employees – Cannabis News

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DENVER -- It turns out selling weed is pretty hard. Contrary to popular belief, selling it legally, at least, isn’t all THC-infused lollipops and rainbows. Just ask David Schwartz.
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Medical marijuana can now be used to treat opioid addiction in N.J. - Cannabis News

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The U.S. government has opened a new line of business for America’s biggest banks, and for once they don’t want it. Little wonder: it’s cash from legalized marijuana.
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