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What's in Your Weed? Touring Florida's Marijuana Testing Lab - Cannabis News

Erika Walton, 43, fills out paperwork to have a marijuana violation expunged from her record. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
 
As it prepares to begin retail marijuana sales next month, Oregon is blazing a profoundly new trail, legal experts and marijuana business people said, to rethink cannabis-related violations.
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KS lawmakers consider measure to conduct research into uses of industrial hemp

Vendors selling cannabis-related apparel are doing good business at the Oregon State Fair. Image: Jamie Hale/Oregon Live

Jamie Hale ~ OregonLive.com ~

The Oregon State Fair might need to break out some green ribbons – marijuana is moving in.
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Most Texans support legalizing Marijuana for medical use, poll finds

The West Linn wedding of John Elledge and Whitney Alexander featured a marijuana bar. Image: Jessica Hill Photography via KGW.com
Cathy Marshal ~ KGW.com ~
 
WEST LINN, Ore. -- The legalization of pot in Oregon has couples considering weed bars at their weddings.
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North American canines unwittingly consuming more cannabis: study

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SALEM, Ore. — Governor Kate Brown signed a bill on Tuesday that will allow adults 21 and over to temporarily buy recreational marijuana at established medical pot dispensaries starting on October 1st, nearly a full year sooner than expected.
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Europe’s first THC adult-use Cannabis trial set to launch in January 2023 after four month delay

Former Eugene TV anchor, reporter and producer, Cyd Maurer posted a video on her website askmeaboutmarijuana.com after she was fired from KEZI. (Image courtesy of Cyd Maurer)
 
The morning weekend anchor at Eugene's ABC affiliate says she was fired in late May after testing positive for marijuana.
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Illinois and Maryland Achieve Record Cannabis Sales in May

Love Erchul, left, and Polly Bates, right, dance together at The Oregon Country Fair in 2013. Brittany Greeson/ The Oregonian

Jamie Hale ~ OregonLive.com ~

Recreational marijuana may now be legal in Oregon, but it’s still forbidden at the state’s famous festival.

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Rhode Island Senate Approves Legal Cannabis

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The airport is allowing travelers to board with the legal amount of marijuana on flights that take off and land within Oregon's borders.
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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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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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Thailand: Regulations on the Use of Cannabis and Hemp in Cosmetics

May 2013 video surveillance shows an armed robbery at the ReLeaf medical marijuana dispensary in Portland
Officials say home invasion robberies again could increase when Oregonians begin cultivating marijuana crops in their homes and backyards after July 1.
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Indonesia Takes Away “Medical Plant” Designation for Cannabis

2011 file photo of an unidentified man smokes medical marijuana during karaoke night at the Cannabis Cafe, in Portland, Ore. At a July 3 event, Weed the People, people will gather to smoke legally and receive free marijuana from Oregon growers. (AP Photo)

Jamie Hale ~ OregonLive ~

On July 1, recreational marijuana will officially be legal in Oregon. Some kind of celebration, a commemoration of the occasion, was inevitable.
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Pennsylvania Marijuana pardon project

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In two weeks, it'll be legal for anyone 21 and older to possess and grow marijuana in Oregon. But before you light up, the state wants you to know a few things.
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Problems blamed on cannabis that actually have nothing to do with cannabis

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More than any state that has legalized marijuana, Oregon is a champion when it comes to producing the drug.
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Marijuana ancillary firm Greenlane raises $32 million in equity

Map of marijuana prices in the various US states 5-13-2015
 
They warned us this would happen.
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Science Seeks to Unlock Marijuana Secrets

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The draw may be rooted in the same attraction to local craft breweries
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Cannabis in Aspen: What It’s Like to Get High at a High-End Resort - Cannabis News

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ONTARIO, Ore. - Oregon's marijuana law is set to take effect on July 1, allowing for recreational sales and use of the drug for people 21 and older.
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Rising marijuana sales leave pot shops flush with cash they can not deposit

Image of US Marijuana Legalization Map 4-2015
 
Two months from now, on July 1, Oregon will become the fourth state to allow residents to legally purchase marijuana for recreational use.
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