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Bud & Breakfast, in Denver, is one of a handful of marijuana-friendly accommodations across Colorado.  Image: Theo Stroomer for The New York Times
 
DENVER — Whether bought from a downtown shop or cadged from a friend’s basement greenhouse, legal marijuana is easy to find in Colorado. Places to smoke it, not so much.
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Nevada reports a whopping 110% of projected sales from marijuana - Cannabis News

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Technology will play a huge role in the cannabis industry’s future legitimacy.
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You’ll soon be able to earn a degree in cannabis from a Colorado university - Cannabis News

Attendees at the kick-off of CanopyBoulder's fall boot camp. Image: WeedWorthy.com
Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
Firms like CanopyBoulder are helping new, marijuana-related firms to not only survive the crucial first years in business, but to hopefully thrive as they grow and evolve.
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Napa County Ballot to Include Initiative for Commercial Cannabis Cultivation

A warning sign at a Purdue University research farm cautions visitors against taking cannabis sativa plants grown for research purposes. Image: Maureen Hayden/CNHI
Maureen Hayden, CNHI ~ News and Tribune ~
 
ROMNEY  – The high fence surrounding a Purdue University research farm here was installed to keep out pesky deer, but this summer it served a second purpose: Keeping federal drug agents at bay.
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Irish brewmaster hoping cannabis beer will be a big hit

A U.S. government medical marijuana crop at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. Image via Wikimedia Commons
 
A side effect of a federal drug law has left legal pot farmers without any approved pesticides—and as a result, many have turned to harmful chemicals to protect their crops.
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California’s legal marijuana will outsell the black market in 5 years, forecast says

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Medical marijuana is officially growing--both literally and figuratively--in the state of Illinois, with cultivation centers producing strains that are expected to harvest around October.
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Wasn’t the DEA Going to Let Others Grow Research-Grade Cannabis?

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Kathleen Burke ~ Marketwatch.com ~

With the recent stock market volatility, it’s difficult to know which industries will weather the storm. However, there’s one potential way to stay in the green.
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Some mining firms are switching to cannabis as the lure of commodities fades

A seven-acre greenhouse facility in Ontario run by Supreme Pharmaceuticals, formerly a copper exploration company.  Image: Reuters/Euan Rocha

Cannabinoids: The chemistry behind cannabis – Cannabis News

Dixie Brands, a Colorado manufacturer of marijuana-infused edibles, is expanding with non-psychoactive, CBD-infused products for people and pets that will be available throughout the U.S. Image: Denver Post file

Ricardo Baca  ~ Denver Post ~

Two new hemp-based product lines are coming from Colorado's Dixie Brands: Therabis is CBD-infused supplements for pets; Aceso has three formulas for human consumption.

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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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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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CBN Yourself to Sleep Tonight with These Products

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Lee Shearer ~ OnlineAthens.com ~

A University of Georgia graduate student used crowdsourcing to take a look at marijuana prices across the country.
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Marijuana and coffee? New bill could bring Cannabis Cafes to California

Joshua Artman developed a duo of apps that connect cannabis growers with dispensaries and users. Image: JOHN BURGESS / The Press Democrat

Julie Johnson ~ The Press Democrat ~

Near the heart of the remote Round Valley in Mendocino County, a back-to-the-land father and cannabis farmer is trying to get in on the ground floor of an industry that could skyrocket if recreational use of marijuana is legalized in California next year.
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Jim Belushi, actor and Cannabis farmer, to meet fans at Las Vegas dispensary

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An Ohio ballot measure makes some reformers squirm, but backers says its grower oligopoly is nothing to worry about.

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Missouri to Consider Medical Marijuana in 2017 – Cannabis News

Vermont State Senator Joe Benning acknowledged that there may not be enough support in the legislature yet for legalizing marijuana. But he thinks it might make sense to regulate that industry and perhaps even reap some economic rewards from it. Credit Charlotte Albright / VPR

Ireland: Cork toddler, 2, gets cannabis oil permit for epilepsy treatment – Cannabis News

Sarah Stuive, biological control consultant, checks for bugs at Bedrocan Canada, a medical marijuana facility, in Toronto on Monday, August 17, 2015. Image: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Alexandra Posadzki ~ The Canadian Press ~
 
TORONTO – When Sarah Stuive first got into the natural pest control business – which uses predatory insects, or “good bugs,” to weed out pests – she never expected to be working with cannabis plants.
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Here's what's driving lawmakers working to legalize recreational pot in 17 more states – Cannabis News

AXIM already has a cannabinoid chewing gum product, known as CanChew, on the market. Image AXIM via MarketWatch.com.

Kathleen Burke ~ MarketWatch.com ~

Marijuana-infused gum enters clinical trials.

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Omaha partner in hemp-processing firm urges lawmakers to OK plant's farming in Nebraska – Cannabis News

Cannabis trimmers at a Denver operation. Image: WeedWorthy.com

Veterans plea to Texas lawmakers to legalize medical marijuana – Cannabis News

Tribal council leaders, parents and youth are concerned about the impact that legalizing marijuana could have on communities in the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Image: Kelcie Johnson/News21

Lex Talamo, News21 ~ via OklahomaWatch.org ~

Participating in the marijuana industry may have risks for Native American tribes, like losing federal funding.
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How to detox Marijuana from your system in 24 hours

Pipes & Lighters board game
Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
A Silicon Valley veteran wants to become the next Milton Bradley with his cannabis trivia board game.
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