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Marijuana growers crave this Brigham Young University student’s organic fertilizer - Cannabis News

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Voters in Colorado passed a referendum four years ago to make buying and selling marijuana legal, and Massachusetts voters are expected to do the same thing.

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80 years after hemp was outlawed, Pa. eyes major expansion - Cannabis News

Jacqueline Gervasio smoking in Denver’s Civic Center Park, April 2015. Image: Brent Lewis, The Denver Post

Like countless commuters in Denver's urban core, Marty Otañez can't help but smell the pot smoke as he rides to work along the Cherry Creek bike path downtown. "A couple years ago it was only under the bridge at Colfax and Speer," Otañez said of the clouds emanating from public tokers. "Now it's pretty much every 100 meters."

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Your doctor is probably more worried about your weight than your marijuana use, study finds – Cannabis News

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President Barack Obama's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to throw out a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma and Nebraska seeking to block Colorado's voter-approved law legalizing recreational marijuana use by adults.

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The Next "It" Ingredient in Beauty Products is Marijuana - Cannabis News

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Elizabeth Hernandez ~ The Denver Post ~

Colorado recreational marijuana sales are close to $60 million in August 2015; medical marijuana sales climb slightly.

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Missouri Marijuana Dispensaries to Open Mid-Summer, DHSS Director Says - Cannabi News

Robert Grandt works in the grow room at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver on March 11, 2015. (RJ Sangosti, Denver Post file)
David Migoya and Ricardo Baca ~ The Denver Post ~

New rule would limit industry's choice of pesticides to only those already allowed for use on food for human consumption.

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NFL players fight pain with medical marijuana: ‘Managing it with pills was slowly killing me’ - Cannabis News

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The Doggfather himself made a public service announcement wishing everyone in Colorado a happy pot tax holiday.
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Cannabis Tax Revenue Is Seeing Higher Numbers In The U.S.

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Katie Lobosco ~ CNN Money ~
 
For one day and one day only, you can get a 10% discount on recreational marijuana in Colorado. September 16 is a pot tax holiday, thanks to a quirky state law.
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New York medical marijuana company to roll out home delivery service in five boroughs – Cannabis News

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GOLDEN - Colorado kicked off a month-long effort Wednesday to develop and tweak marijuana enforcement rules dealing with everything from yeast levels to how edible medical marijuana products are labeled and packaged.
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Marijuana reforms flood state legislatures – Cannabis News

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A marijuana dispenser in Colorado is modeling his career after an unlikely business hero: TV dinner tycoon Clarence Birdseye, who practically invented the frozen food industry thanks to his dual interests in food preservation and inventing new technology.
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Recreational pot sales double in Maine

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In the final days of the 2015 legislative session, Gov. John Hickenlooper's office asked for a $300,000 earmark to fund a crackdown on toxic pesticides being used in legal marijuana grows in Colorado.
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