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What Is Cannabidivarin (CBDV) And Is It The Next Big Thing?

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Medical marijuana is a multibillion dollar industry and hundreds of hungry entrepreneurs are ready to make it a reality in Hawaii.
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What Is The Best Time Of Day To Get High?

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The hype over hemp that erupted last year during Colorado's first sensational flirtations with the marijuana look-alike is now starting to live up to expectations. 
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Canada: Medicinal cannabis use can help mitigate symptoms of PTSD, study says

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Esko, Minn., teacher Jess Blake is confident medical marijuana will lessen the nausea that comes with treatment for the brain tumor she was diagnosed with in September.
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Majority of New Yorkers support marijuana legalization to combat budget deficit, poll shows - Cannabis News

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DENVER – Marijuana entrepreneurs rushing into the booming market are running headlong into a patchwork of state-by-state regulations that make it hard to transfer their expertise, brands and staff— and even their profits.
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Elizabeth Warren Wants Marijuana Answers From Trump Health Nominee - Cannabis News

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Maggie Lee ~ The Telegraph ~

ATLANTA -- A few hours before Georgia’s medical cannabis registry opened Tuesday morning, the legislator who created it cursed the federal prohibition that makes it necessary.

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Cannabis could be boost for Virginia farmers - Cannabis News

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“Tomorrow is going to be a good day,” in an exclusive interview about the launch of Georgia’s medical marijuana cards. 
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The MORE Act of 2021 Introduced In Congress

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Parents of severely autistic children are turning to medical marijuana for relief.
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Public support for marijuana legalization surged in 2016 - Cannabis News

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The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to rein in the DEA.
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Two Colleges Join New York's Industrial Hemp Farming Program - Cannabis News

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Delaware's first medical marijuana dispensary will open on June 26, more than four years after lawmakers and Gov. Jack Markell first legalized pot for medicinal use.
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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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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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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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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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Jeremy B. White ~ The Sacramento Bee ~
 
California’s latest attempt to regulate medical marijuana advanced off the Assembly floor on a 50-5 vote Thursday.
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