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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas took the first step Tuesday toward launching its medical marijuana program, as state regulators named the five businesses they intend to license to grow the drug.
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A Denver coffee shop received city approval Monday for the nation’s first business license to allow marijuana use by patrons under a 2016 voter-approved initiative.
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Landon Miller ~ KTVN.com ~
Despite two years of delays, the state’s first MMJ dispensary is ready to open its doors.
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Following months of wrangling, the Colorado Department of Agriculture has secured a permit from federal drug enforcement officials to import industrial hemp seed from foreign countries.
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PLEVNA, Kan. State lawmakers in Kansas are considering measures to conduct research into the uses of industrial hemp.
The product comes from a sativa plant, like marijuana, but the hemp plant looks much different and is used to create thousands of products.
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If public opinion is any indication, nationwide marijuana legalization might not be such a pipe dream after all.
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They urge states to heed lessons from alcohol, tobacco industries
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Support for legalizing marijuana has reached an all-time high, according to a recent poll conducted by Fox News.
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Mark Demsky ~ Fox40.com ~
In California this week, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors revised its water code to declare marijuana cultivation a form of water waste.
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Eric Hartley ~ Las Vegas Review-Journal
After spending months in limbo, waiting for the state to hash out rules for testing medical marijuana, laboratories might be able to get to work soon.
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Forget bingo, tea dances and seaside trips. Residents from a chain of Seattle retirement homes are going on Pot for Beginners tours to learn about – and buy – cannabis in the city, where it’s now legal.
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Exhibitors at cannabis expo in New York City 'play the game' when it comes to displaying their wares
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ALBANY – The state Department of Health announced Monday it is accepting applications from businesses interested in becoming registered organizations to manufacture and dispense medical marijuana in New York.
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The Mountain States Employers Council (MSEC) did a survey in December that indicated a shift in employer attitudes toward cannabis.
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Brigette Namata ~ KHON2 ~
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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DENVER — With smiles, selfies and a few nervous chuckles, a group of Nevada legislators and policymakers got a first-hand look at Colorado's fast-growing legal marijuana industry this weekend, coming face-to-face with thousands of green growing plants.
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The 2015 wildfire season, among the worst in recent memory, took a major toll on the state’s marijuana industry.
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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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The cannabis industry may be thrilled that the Administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Michelle Leonhart is stepping down, but with the confirmation of Loretta Lynch as the new Attorney General it may not matter.
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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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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Language in a proposal to amend Ohio's constitution and legalize sale, use and possession of marijuana in the state has employers antsy over the impact it could have, despite a legal analysis that says they will retain strong workplace control.
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Chris Shaw ~ FOX 5 ~
ATLANTA - Few bills that Governor Nathan Deal signs into law bring the amount of people or appreciation, or emotion that the bill he signed Thursday did.
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Growers of medical cannabis say smoke is affecting crops.
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Tim Devaney ~ The Hill ~
Lawmakers are prepping for what could turn into a marijuana vote-a-rama Wednesday, sources say.
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Ricardo Baca ~ The Cannabist ~
High Times magazine’s New York-rooted editor-in-chief Dan Skye has spent plenty of time in Colorado researching and photographing the state’s medical and recreational systems, but his current, pre-Cannabis Cup trip to the state has been uncommonly eye-opening.
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Michael Dresser ~ Washington Post ~
A proposal to build a medical marijuana production plant could provide a local economic boost to the region.
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The state has a year until it begins issuing licenses for businesses selling recreational marijuana. Between now and then, the Alcoholic Beverages Control Board is home to a new body developing regulations: the Marijuana Control Board.
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Phillip Smith ~ Alternet ~
We know the end is coming, but pot prohibition is going to have to be undone state by state. Here are the ones least likely to jump on the bandwagon.
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The Boston Zoning Board of Appeals has given conditional approval to open a medical marijuana dispensary on Milk Street.
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The exhibit halls of the Chicago Hilton and Towers were packed with vendors offering a glimpse of the world as it’s about to become in Illinois, from lemonade to honey to krispie treats
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Malcolm Harris ~ Aljazeera America
Four decades after Richard Nixon declared drugs “public enemy No. 1 in the United States,” the tide has turned on marijuana legalization.
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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 is spurring on an ag-tech revolution,” said Troy Dayton, CEO of ArcView Group, a cannabis-industry research firm in Oakland, California.
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