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Filmmaking Couple Touches on Medical Marijuana's Social Stigma - Cannabis News

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Inside a cannabis shop's emerging business model
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Hemp is being touted as the Midwest’s next big cash crop. What would that mean for the environment? - Cannabis News

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Watching his six-month-old daughter endlessly spasming in pain drove Michael Lambert beyond the bounds of Australian drug laws.
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Recreational pot sales double in Maine

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In the final days of the 2015 legislative session, Gov. John Hickenlooper's office asked for a $300,000 earmark to fund a crackdown on toxic pesticides being used in legal marijuana grows in Colorado.
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Canonic uses AI to breed new line of THC-heavy cannabis products

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“You've got to hold it in your lungs longer, George.” A lot of people remember the famous comment by actor Peter Fonda in Easy Rider.
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Why The US Has Made A Complete Mess Of Partial Marijuana Legalization (So Far)

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A circuit judge has ruled that Missouri's so-called "Right to Farm" amendment doesn't allow farming pot.
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Cannabis and Schizophrenia – Not a Testable Hypothesis

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When pot is this good, people don't give up. And Florida is not giving up on medical-grade marijuana anytime soon.
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What Will 2021 Bring For The Global Cannabis Industry?

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States across the country are struggling to translate their medical marijuana laws into functional programs
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Kentucky marijuana legalization 2022: Kulkarni pushes to decriminalize cannabis

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With a wave of legalization measures in recent years, marijuana in some form is now legal in 38 states. But in the 12 where it is not — a swath of the west and Midwest, including Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas, and in the rust belt states of Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania — parents whose use of the drug would be legal elsewhere are losing their children and often seen as irresponsible parenting pariahs.
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Maricopa community colleges get $17.1M from cannabis tax in first year of legality

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The First Church of Cannabis has been recognised as a church and charitable organisation in Indiana, despite the drug still being illegal in the state.
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Cherokee Leaders Decriminalize Marijuana in North Carolina

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ALBANY – Patients and state lawmakers on Tuesday made a final push for New York to pass a bill that would provide emergency access to medical marijuana for ill patients.
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This Coast-to-Coast Cannabis Grower Just Made a Big Move in Colorado

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A proposal that would create a $100 fine for marijuana possession in Miami-Dade gets its first hearing before county commissioners Wednesday, a key test for a law designed to keep minor pot offenses out of the criminal system.
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Colorado Just Became The First State In History To Collect More Taxes From Marijuana Than Alcohol

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Oregon marijuana users helped propel a Vancouver retailer to the top recreational weed shop in Washington.
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Day Without Marijuana Tax Draws Mixed Reactions in Colorado

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European Union countries are unlikely to legalize marijuana any time soon as some parts of the United States have done recently, EU drug monitoring agency chief Wolfgang Gotz said on Thursday.
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USDA Announces Two More Hemp Insurance Programs - Cannabis News

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Syracuse, N.Y. -- Medical marijuana dispensaries may be coming to Utica and Rochester.
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Legal cannabis now supports 243,700 full-time American jobs - Cannabis News

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Congress voted on two amendments to a Department of Justice spending bill Wednesday that would protect marijuana businesses in states where they're legal, but only one of them passed.
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California: Wine grape growers lose labor to cannabis farms - Cannabis News

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California’s latest attempt to regulate medical marijuana advanced off the Assembly floor on a 50-5 vote Thursday.
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Legal New York Pot Means New Police Strategy

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Three mothers and their sick kids share how medical marijuana has helped
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DEA Will Begin Granting Marijuana Cultivation Licenses

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Colorado’s effort to tax marijuana as a means to help the state budget never materialized, at least financially, slowing expansion of industries supported by the drug. As attempts to approve marijuana’s use in other states and cities falters, these industries face unexpected road blocks.
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Missouri to begin accepting personal Marijuana cultivation applications by Feb. 6

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Becky Schlikerman ~ Chicago Sun Times
 
It’s an industry, they say, that’s too new to have a glass ceiling. And for many women, that’s a good reason to get into the booming legal marijuana business.
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Kansas City looks to approve ballot question for Marijuana sales tax

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The number of companies looking to cash in on marijuana is growing, including some with celebrity backers, like Melissa Etheridge, reports CBS News correspondent Gigi Stone Woods.
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