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Study on cannabis chemical as a treatment for pancreatic cancer may have 'major impact,' Harvard researcher says

Santa Cruz 4/20 celebration at Porter Meadow on UCSC Campus. Image: Sroalf via Wikimedia Commons
 
More U.S. college students are making a habit of using marijuana, which has supplanted cigarettes as the smoke-able substance of choice among undergraduates who light up regularly, a study released Tuesday found.
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Albany, N.Y. child's epilepsy improves on medical marijuana – Cannabis News

University of Denver Professor Andrew Matranga. Photo credit: CBS

Britt Moreno ~ CBS Denver ~

The college course is called Cannabis Journalism: reporting and covering the new normal.

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Colorado Submits Further Comment On Hemp Rule

Pueblo County Courthouse, Pueblo, CO. Image: Billy Hathorn via Wikimedia Commons
Kristen Wyatt ~ Associated Press ~
 
DENVER (AP) -- Talk about higher learning. A Colorado county may create the world's first public college scholarship program funded with marijuana money.
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Laos approves regulated production of Cannabis for medical use

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The farmers market in the town of Laytonville offers, among other things, an ample supply of heirloom cannabis.
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Here’s why Snoop Dogg’s firm just invested nearly $19 million into a European cannabis startup

An outdoor cannabis garden. Image: Cannabis Training University via Wikimedia Commons
Stuart Miller ~ New York Times ~
 
Wineries and breweries should brace themselves for some unusual competition. Colorado, which legalized marijuana for recreational use in 2012, will get its first “weedery” in early 2016.
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Social Life Network, with its unique and multi-faceted business approach to social networking platforms, goes public with the trading symbol WDLF

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William Shakespeare sought inspiration by smoking weed in the sort of pipe commonly referred to as a "bong", a South African scientist has claimed.
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A Judge accepts the Biden administration's dubious argument for banning Gun possession by Marijuana users

T-shirts for sale in Albion, Ill. declare that though Albion has a medical marijuana farm, residents can't buy alcohol in local stores. | Becky Schlikerman/Sun-Times
Becky Schlikerman ~ Chicago Sun-Times ~
 
If you want a bottle of booze in downstate Albion, you have to drive out of town.
But the Edwards County town of less than 2,000 residents is the site of a huge medical marijuana farm.
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Cannabis Users Exercise Much More Than You Think

Reefer Madness, also titled A Burning Question in some prints, was a 1930s propaganda film intended to spook parents about drug use. Image via BU.

Rich Barlow ~ BU Today ~

Boston University course surveys America’s pot policy through the decades.

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UFC announces it will no longer punish fighters for positive cannabis tests

Chef Coreen Carroll, right, and fiance Ryan Bush host their Canaisseur series dinner pop-up, which pairs gourmet courses with marijuana. Photo by Albert Law. www.porkbellystudio.com
 
At chef Coreen Carroll’s latest pop-up dinner series, people may ask you to “pass the weed,” and no one will think it’s strange.
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Poll finds support for marijuana legalization - Cannabis News

Hemp-based foods products of Azienda Agricola Fiore Marzio ILario are seen in this handout photograph taken in London July 20, 2015.  Reuters/Stefano Fumagalli/Handout via Reuters
Pamela Barbaglia ~Reuters ~
 
Any Italian will tell you: pasta is healthy and makes you feel good. But what about spaghetti made from cannabis?
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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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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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How Technology Is Reshaping The CBD Industry

Image of  Marc Paskin, who goes by the name Gary Ganja, on the air in the Smokin 94.1 studio in Denver. Credit Matthew Staver for The New York Times
 
A look at Colorado’s only pot-themed FM radio station, which made its debut June 1
 
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Cannabis, coworking, and the marijuana-industry land rush - Cannabis News

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Scientists have discovered a tribe of modern-day hunter gatherers smoked cannabis to ward off parasites - suggesting ancient humans may also have had a taste for the high life.
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Hawaii Interim Hemp Rules In Effect

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A mini-boom of pot-related magazines, cookbooks, growers’ manuals and other publications has sprung up  alongside marijuana legalization. Here is a sample for those seeking to grow, bake, sell or learn about cannabis…
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These 5 Women Are Powering Up the Cannabis Technology Industry

Image of a rural California outdoor marijuana grow facility.
 
Two diverse shows attempt to document a shift in how we think about pot, how it is becoming a part of our everyday lives, shedding its stigma, normalizing.
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What To Do If Your Marijuana Edibles Aren’t Working

Image of Bill Levin, founder of Indian's First Church of Cannabis.
 
Courts ultimately might have to decide whether practices amount to sincere religion
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Survey: Two-thirds of cops say marijuana laws should be relaxed – Cannabis News

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"Puff, puff, pass" and beyond. Talking marijuana manners with Lizzie Post and others in these weird, post-legalization times
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