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With Consumption Lounge Bill Passed, Las Vegas Poised to Lead on Cannatourism

Todd Mitchem is CEO of an app-based social network for cannabis enthusiasts, High There! He says legal recreational marijuana has changed the pot conversation for him and other parents. Image: AP via Christian Science Monitor.
 
Colorado's initial efforts to deter teens from taking up marijuana drew criticism for recycling Drug War-era scare tactics. Public health officials seek to strike a different tone with the 'What's next" campaign.
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Strangest Cannabis strains on the market today

Cannabis under grow lights at a Denver facility. Image: WeedWorthy.com

Colorado pot taxes: Over the first six months of 2015, the state has pulled in a total of $60.7 million in marijuana taxes, fees.

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Ashton Kutcher reveals he stopped smoking Weed

White House Exterior. Image: www.GlynLowe.com via Wikimedia Commons.
 
Here’s a look at three presidential candidates who, through past views and statements, offer the perceived-to-be friendliest approaches to the marijuana industry.
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Laos approves regulated production of Cannabis for medical use

Image: Abigail Batchelder/Flickr via Mother Jones.
 
The farmers market in the town of Laytonville offers, among other things, an ample supply of heirloom cannabis.
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LA Swindler steals millions of dollars in marijuana scams

 14th Street  subway station in New York City, lines F and V. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Lois Weiss ~ New York Post ~

Medical marijuana is taking root in the heart of NYC.
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The Cannabis Industry Boasts a Higher Percentage of Female Business Owners than Corporate America - Cannabis News

Ian Eisenberg displays some of the most popular product they sell at his store, Uncle Ike's. Image: Meghan Walker via KUOW.org.
Meghan Walker ~ Kuow.org ~
 
It's been a year since the first retail pot shops opened in Washington, and the cost of weed has dropped significantly. But that’s not stopping eager pot entrepreneurs hoping to get in on the budding industry.
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Deep Dive: A Look At America’s Marijuana Evolution - Cannabis News

Avondale Bridge, Pueblo County, Colorado. Image: Thad Roan via Wikimedia Commons.

Joel Warner ~ High Country News ~

Local officials want Pueblo County, Colorado, to be the best place to grow, but not everyone’s high on the idea.

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2 Top Cannabis Stocks to Buy in May

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Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~

A top NORML official says the number of states that vote in favor of legalizing or decriminalizing cannabis next year will affect the legal marijuana movement’s momentum.

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OKlahoma: State temporarily halts enforcement of some marijuana business rules

A GreenBroz commercial trimmer
Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
One inventor-turned-businessman says innovators are finding a market for their ideas as the legal marijuana sector concentrates on its bottom line.
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South African Cannabis industry poised for huge growth in 2023

Nyhavn canal as seen from Kongens Nytorv square, Copenhagen, Denmark, Northern Europe. (Photo: Mstyslav Chernov)
 
New figures from the Danish National Institute of Public Health show that cannabis use is up among high school students while drinking is down.
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Maine’s ‘first and only cannabis business park’ growing in Auburn - Cannabis News

Hashman Infused marijuana chocolate bars are hand-crafted by a classically trained artisan chocolatier. Photo: Salvador Ingram
Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
Industry experts are watching carefully as more people ingest, rather than smoke,  their cannabis.
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Cannabis medicine, education, and policy in Switzerland

Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Rand Paul waits to speak during a campaign stop at a sports bar in Denver on Tuesday, June 30, 2015. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
 
Less than a month after holding a fundraiser on the sidelines of a Colorado marijuana conference, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is joining the fight to give America’s growing legal marijuana industry access to banking services.
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Which country is really the No. 1 consumer of marijuana? – Marijuana News

A cannabis grow room in Denver. Photo: WeedWorthy.com
Kristen Wyatt ~ Associated Press ~
 
DENVER — A federal law crafted to fight the mob is giving marijuana opponents a new strategy in their battle to stop the expanding industry: racketeering lawsuits.
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Voters in five Texas cities approved decriminalizing Marijuana. Now city officials are standing in the way.

Texans like Edwin Patterson, on the left, and Sherise Nipper are looking to Colorado for access to medical marijuana.  Photo: Alex Ramirez
 
People with a variety of medical ailments are leaving Texas for treatment in Colorado.
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NJ partners with Rowan University on Cannabis Workforce development program

Kansas landscape/Photo Credit: Jenna Normandin, JN Photography.
Jessi Rae ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
Despite changes in other states when it comes to marijuana legalization, the political and cultural landscape in Kansas makes local analysts doubt whether similar progress can take place there.
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Another Three Hemp Plans Get USDA Green Light

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Bruce Kennedy~ WeedWorthy ~
 
Aaron Smith of the National Cannabis Industry Association calls on legal cannabis industry leaders to create a business sector they can be proud of.
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Hemp CBD Market to More Than Double by 2022 - Cannabis News

Marijuana enthusiasts gather after midnight to celebrate the legalization of recreational use of marijuana in Portland, Oregon July 1, 2015. Reuters/Steve Dipaola
Shelby Sebens ~ Reuters ~
 
Crowds counted down the minutes to midnight then lit up joints as smoking marijuana became legal in Oregon on Wednesday, part of a growing legalization movement spreading down the United States' west coast.
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Marijuana Bill Approved By Congressional Committee, Despite Drug Conviction Restriction Dispute - Cannabis News

Patrick McClellan held a vaporizer with medical marijuana early Wednesday morning after acquiring a prescription at MinnMed.  Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune
Jennifer Brooks~ Star Tribune ~
 
At the stroke of midnight, medical marijuana was legal in Minnesota.
Moments later, the state's first cannabis clinic welcomed its first patients.
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What To Do With Leftover Marijuana Stems - Cannabis News

NCIA conference in Denver, 2015. Bruce Kennedy, WeedWorthy
Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
A veteran industry observer looks back on 2014, ahead to next year, and at the growing national acceptance of legal cannabis.
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Can Hemp help reverse chronic conditions like diabetes?

A large gathering was held at the Burnside Bridge Tuesday night as recreational marijuana became legal at midnight, July 1, 2015, in Oregon. Beth Nakamura/ Oregonian Staff
 
Oregonians who plan to smoke, cultivate or carry cannabis under the state's new recreational marijuana law should make sure they do it in the roughly 47 percent of Oregon where it's strictly legal.
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