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Marijuana Laws Affecting the Workplace: Tools Employers Can Use to Stay Ahead During High Times

The new and flourishing business of cannabis is drawing large numbers of women execs. Why does marijuana draw a higher percentage of women than many other industries?

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Cannabis businesses will face challenges trying to open in CT, experts say

Black Friday is the time for door-buster electronics sales, deeply discounted fashion and, oh yeah, purchasing holiday gifts for loved ones. And it's also becoming a big shopping day for medical marijuana.

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What Happened When the Cannabis Industry Rolled Into Las Vegas Last Weekend – Cannabis News

Everything you need to know about the 5th Annual Marijuana Business Conference and Expo in Sin City.

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Strong Support For The Legalization Of Medical Cannabis In Costa Rica

For the third time in three years, Fluence Bioengineering, an Austin company that makes lights for indoor plant growing, has moved into a yet-bigger manufacturing facility.

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Women Cannabis Entrepreneurs Gather In L.A. for Empowerment Summit - Cannabis News

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Thousands of people descended upon downtown Los Angeles for a massive marijuana expo.

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Industrial hemp new star crop in Montana agriculture - Cannabis News

The state approved its first licenses for commercial cannabis businesses Thursday, a major step for prospective retailers hoping to open shop before year’s end.

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Alaska’s first commercial retail cannabis businesses receive state approval – Cannabis News

The state approved its first licenses for commercial cannabis businesses Thursday, a major step for prospective retailers hoping to open shop before year’s end.

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Cannabis use disorder has both genetic and biological underpinnings: researchers

This year is already the most important year in the history of the movement to end marijuana prohibition in the United States.

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Cannasouth to buy out cultivation and manufacturing joint venture partners

Genius Extraction Technologies is ramping up and reinventing cannabis extract production.

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Missouri Marijuana Campaign made Ballot with tactic that Surprised Longtime Observers

Could failing retail businesses provide the cannabis and warehouse industries with an unexpected spark?

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20 states report pot legalization measures in 2016 election – Marijuana News

Voters in 20 U.S. states could potentially legalize some form of cannabis use in the November 2016 election — part of a historic backlash to the century-old war on marijuana.

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Dispensary Construction: How Much Does It Cost?

Christian Hageseth at the National Cannabis Summit in Denver. Image: WeedWorthy.com
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Veteran cannabis entrepreneur Christian Hageseth says the legal cannabis industry is rapidly evolving and on the verge of explosive growth.
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Seriously, Every Country in the World Should Have Dispensaries

Amoeba Music on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California. Image: Eco84 via Wikimedia Commons

Move over Miles: The legendary record store wants to convert its jazz room into Berkeley's newest medical marijuana dispensary.

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Growing off the grid: Marijuana businesses find ways to be eco-friendly - Cannabis News

Hashman Infused marijuana chocolate bars are hand-crafted by a classically trained artisan chocolatier. Photo: Salvador Ingram

The change in US cannabis laws has led to a growing market in food and drink laced with the drug, as Meg Carter reports.

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CBD: here’s what science says about its real health benefits

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Cannabis industry representatives are looking back to 2014’s successes, as they prepare for the 2016 election cycle.
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Jamaican farmers just harvested their first legal cannabis crop

Genifer Murray of CannLabs being interviewed at the NCIA Cannabis Business Summit, June 2014. Image via NCIA
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It seems fitting that a plant called Mary Jane could smash the patriarchy.
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Hollywood Reacts to Recreational Marijuana Being Legalized in California – Cannabis News

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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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