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Studying the impacts of combining cannabis and exercise

Colorado voters approved a statewide ballot measure Tuesday that gives state lawmakers permission to spend $66.1 million in taxes collected from the sale of recreational marijuana. Image: Aaron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post
Colorado voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a statewide ballot measure that gives state lawmakers permission, once again, to spend $66.1 million in taxes collected from the sale of recreational marijuana.
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Marijuana studied as treatment for tics of Tourette syndrome - Cannabis News

Buddie, the mascot for the pro-marijuana legalization group ResponsibleOhio, holds a sign at Ohio State University in Columbus on election day.  Image: John Minchillo, Associated Press
Ohio voters soundly rejected a marijuana initiative Tuesday that would have legalized recreational and medicinal use of the drug, and would have limited commercial growing to a small group of investors who drafted and promoted the measure.
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Rising depression and anxiety have led to more Cannabis use in Florida

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DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg on Wednesday rejected the notion that smoking marijuana is "medicine," calling the premise a "joke."

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Could Amsterdam's days as a Cannabis capital be numbered?

Senator Bernie Sanders at a seniors’ center in Manchester, N.H. on October 30, 2015. Image: Michael Vadon via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has filed a bill in the Senate seeking to end the federal criminalization of marijuana.

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Colorado's pot industry is a cash business. A small credit union wants to change that. – Marijuana News

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A year ago this month, D.C. residents overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative legalizing the possession of marijuana in the District and allowing residents to grow it at home.

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Minnesota Pharmacy Board sues three Cannabis Businesses for violating edible cannabinoid laws

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Federal researchers spent most of the week on a working medical marijuana farm in Vancouver, Washington to study the occupational hazards of growing and processing marijuana. 
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Consumers Sweet on Cannabis Candies to Unwind, Recharge

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When Colorado legalized recreational cannabis, Denver police warned of  new danger for trick or treaters. One year later are kids in pot peril?
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Can hemp be cultivated in Florida? Not without legal and environmental risks, UF study finds

Graciela Elizalde, an 8-year-old who suffers from a severe form of epilepsy that causes intense seizures, receives hydrotherapy treatment at a swimming complex in Monterrey, Mexico. Elizalde began taking a marijuana extract recently. AP Photo/Esteban Felix.
 
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- As Mexico's top court prepares to consider arguments that could open the door to the recreational use of marijuana, some families are hoping such a step could help make medicinal marijuana more accessible.
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Senate Public Health & Welfare Committee hold last Medical Marijuana public hearing

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The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has asked a federal judge in Colorado to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by a Denver-based credit union that wants to provide financial services to the marijuana industry.
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Cannabis Strain Names Have the Most Fascinating Origin Stories! – Cannabis News

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Jessica Contrera ~ Washington Post ~

If Ohio votes yes on marijuana legalization on Tuesday, the Cincinnati native and long-ago leading man of “Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica” will automatically become one of the top weed kingpins in the Buckeye State.

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Year after Philly pot law changed, arrests are down

Mike Whiter receives the first citation for rolling up a joint at City Hall. Image: Mike Whiter via Philly.com

Tricia L. Nadolny ~ Philly.com ~

In the year since the city decriminalized possession and use of small amounts of marijuana, arrests have fallen nearly 75 percent.
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Small cannabis entrepreneurs say they can't compete against ‘Walmart of weed'’

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Scott Malone and Sharon BernsteinReuters ~
 
Two groups that had backed competing ballot initiatives to make recreational use of marijuana legal in Maine agreed on Monday to join forces on one measure to put before voters in 2016.
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DEA Raid on Tribe's Cannabis Crop Infuriates and Confuses Reformers

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Steven Nelson ~ U.S. News & World Report ~

Authorities claim the plants were marijuana, not hemp – but evidence is lacking.

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Two Marijuana Stocks To Watch At The End Of June

Bernie Sanders in Littleton N.H. on August 24th, 2015. Image: Michael Vadon via Wikimedia Commons
 
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced Wednesday he supports removing marijuana from the federal government's list of outlawed drugs.
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Medical marijuana dispensary MedMen loses license in Virginia. Now Staunton could lose out entirely.

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Republican presidential candidates don't get pressed about marijuana at CNBC-hosted debate in Boulder.
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String of Bay Area high-profile retail robberies brings calls for action

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John Aguilar ~ Denver Post ~
 
Englewood liquor licensing authority floats proposed ordinance allowing social pot use at cannabis clubs.
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South Dakota Legislative Board Adopts Cannabis Study Committee’s Report

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Jeffrey M. Jones ~ Gallup.com ~

PRINCETON, N.J. -- A majority of Americans continue to say marijuana use should be legal in the United States, with 58% holding that view, tying the high point in Gallup's 46-year trend.

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This Low-Impact Activity May Burn More Calories Than Walking

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Kristen Wyatt ~ Associated Press
 
DENVER (AP) -- Colorado's attempt to create a bank to service its marijuana industry has received a setback from the Federal Reserve.
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Phoenix nonproft plans to seek grant from fund created by Marijuana Legalization

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Unless you live in the South, recreational weed is coming to a state near you.
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U.S. Support for Legal Marijuana Steady in Past Year - Cannabis News

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Travis Khachatoorian ~ KTUU.com ~
 
ANCHORAGE – While many health officials are mulling over the best way to tackle the spice epidemic in Anchorage, one resident says handing out free marijuana may be the answer.
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