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Polish Bill to Legalize Medical Cannabis Reaches Parlimentary Committee

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The city of Arcata has created what is believed to be the nation’s first-ever land use designation specifically meant to promote and regulate the production of marijuana and cannabis-related products.
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Hollywood Reacts to Recreational Marijuana Being Legalized in California – Cannabis News

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Medical marijuana bills win final approval from Michigan Legislature – Cannabis News

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It almost was, until it wasn’t: The first recreational marijuana TV ad ever got pulled from its slotted schedule last night amid legal concerns.
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Maine’s ‘first and only cannabis business park’ growing in Auburn - Cannabis News

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Industry experts are watching carefully as more people ingest, rather than smoke,  their cannabis.
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Fly with Cannabis – Which Countries Let You Do It

Some Colorado dispensaries pay for the cleanup of litter along sections of the roadways. In return, they get their signs put up and advertise their name.  Photo: KWGN
 
DENVER — Colorado’s booming marijuana industry is getting around a ban on some advertising by sponsoring some sections of Colorado highways with new signs.
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Tests find some early Arizona hemp crops have too much THC - Cannabis News

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Pot shops would have access to banks under new legislation in the Senate.
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Pastor Jamal Bryant shares plans to launch Cannabis Business

Cannabis City clerk Will Bibbs, left, helps a customer looking over a display case of marijuana products at the shop in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
 
A year after legalization, cannabis tax revenues in the state have topped expectations and sales top $1.4 million per day.
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How a Cannabis kiosk is helping retailers comply with California regs

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As expected, the one-game suspension imposed on Packers defensive lineman Datone Jones came from a violation of the law relating to a banned recreational substance.
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Inflation trimming back Cannabis spending, say retailers

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You may have a passion for the product, but getting the go-ahead to start growing and selling marijuana in Massachusetts can be a long, expensive and difficult path.
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Standard unit of THC established for cannabis research

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A former Wall Street analyst believes hemp-based building materials can transform both agriculture and construction throughout New York.
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Is Vaping Cannabis Worse than Vaping Nicotine? Check the Additives

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U.S. Representative Diana DeGette says while cannabis reforms have progressed regionally, the campaign for marijuana legalization has a long way to go.
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What To Do With Leftover Marijuana Stems - Cannabis News

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A veteran industry observer looks back on 2014, ahead to next year, and at the growing national acceptance of legal cannabis.
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Biden’s Statement on Marijuana Reform: What Does it Mean?

Robert Grandt works in the grow room at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver on March 11. Marijuana growing facilities contributed to the city's energy use increase. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
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Metro Denver’s surging legal marijuana industry means surging energy usage in the region.
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USA Today reverses course and calls for End of Cannabis Prohibition

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Cannabis businesses and investors gather in Denver for two days of meetings and financial match-making.
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Where Cannabis Legalization efforts stand across the Country

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When medical cannabis goes on sale for the first time in Minnesota next week, the stores that sell it will have decidedly clinical atmospheres.
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Waretown To Update Cannabis Ordinance

Jonathan Ofir poses with a prototype of his Leaf system.  (International Business Times/Joel Warner)
 
An entrepreneur says his sleek, fully automated “plug ’n’ plant” hydroponic system, controlled via users’ smartphones, will bring cannabis growing out of the closet, or basement.
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Why Is Growing Pot So Energy-Intensive?

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Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy
 
A growing number of women, especially those with degrees in STEM fields, are finding unique opportunities in the legal marijuana sector.
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Marijuana Legalization In Europe: Is France Next? – Cannabis News

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Medical Marijuana policies for Schools in the Works

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As pot laws liberalize, cannabis capitalists eye opportunities for business—and to upend stereotypes. But can white-collar workers handle it, man?
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Office of Cannabis Policy hosts town-hall Discussion on Industry

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Edibles could emerge as a multimillion-dollar food industry in the northwestern U.S. in the next few years
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