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West Virginia Senate passes medical marijuana bill - Cannabis News
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West Virginia
Jackie Borchardt ~ Cleveland.com ~   COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A task force commissioned by ResponsibleOhio to study the effects of its marijuana legalization plan released its findings here Thursday morning but did not endorse the group's proposed constitutional amendment.
Two Colleges Join New York's Industrial Hemp Farming Program - Cannabis News
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New York
Jonathan Starkey ~ Delaware Online ~   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.
Illinois recreational weed sales on pace to top $1 billion in 2020 with room to grow
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Business & Finance
Aaron C. Davis ~ The Washington Post ~   House Republicans advanced a budget plan Thursday that would prevent legal sales of marijuana in the District until at least 2017.
Cherokee Leaders Decriminalize Marijuana in North Carolina
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Cannabis News
Joseph Spector ~ Press Connects ~   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.
What Will 2021 Bring For The Global Cannabis Industry?
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Business & Finance
Kristen Gwynne ~ Rolling Stone ~   States across the country are struggling to translate their medical marijuana laws into functional programs
Cannabis and Schizophrenia – Not a Testable Hypothesis
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Medical News
Daniel Vasquez ~ Sun Sentinel ~   When pot is this good, people don't give up. And Florida is not giving up on medical-grade marijuana anytime soon.
Why The US Has Made A Complete Mess Of Partial Marijuana Legalization (So Far)
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Politics
Jack Suntrup ~ St. Louis Post-Dispatch ~   A circuit judge has ruled that Missouri's so-called "Right to Farm" amendment doesn't allow farming pot.
Canonic uses AI to breed new line of THC-heavy cannabis products
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Cannabis News
Lori Denman-Underhill ~ LA Weekly ~   “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.
DEA Will Begin Granting Marijuana Cultivation Licenses
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Business & Finance
Douglas A. McIntyre ~ 247 Wall Street ~   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.
Legal New York Pot Means New Police Strategy
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Politics
Mario J Garcia ~ NBC News ~   Three mothers and their sick kids share how medical marijuana has helped
New York Has Banned Delta-8 THC
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Business & Finance
Laura Donovan ~ SALON ~   Opponents of legal cannabis say it leaves you fried, but research shows it can actually improve your mental health
California: Wine grape growers lose labor to cannabis farms - Cannabis News
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U.S. News
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.
Legal cannabis now supports 243,700 full-time American jobs - Cannabis News
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Business & Finance
Thomas Mitchell ~ Westword ~   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.
USDA Announces Two More Hemp Insurance Programs - Cannabis News
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CBD & Hemp
James T. Mulder ~ Syrac ~   Syracuse, N.Y. -- Medical marijuana dispensaries may be coming to Utica and Rochester.
Comedy and tragedy: When the GOP debate turned to marijuana
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Politics
Jennifer Brooks ~ StarTribune ~   Small number will certify their patients for medical marijuana, survey finds. 
New Jersey lawmakers to seek marijuana legalization - Cannabis News
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Politics
Beth Greenfield ~ Yahoo News ~   Kalel Santiago, 9, who has autism, spoke his first words shortly after starting hemp-oil treatments.
What have we learned about the arguments for and against legalized Marijuana in the past 10 years?
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Medical News
Jeff Mapes  ~ The Oregonian ~   Depending on who's talking, a 20-acre hemp farm about 10 miles south of Grants Pass is either the harbinger of a new industry that could help save rural Oregon – or an existential threat to local marijuana farmers just as they're anticipating boom times.
Federal raids cool tribal excitement over potential marijuana profits – Marijuana News
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Law & Crime
Zachariah Hughes ~ Alaska Public Media ~   This weekend, Alaska saw its first-ever job fair for careers in commercial cannabis, offering a glimpse of how the semi-legal marijuana industry is taking tentative steps towards professionalism and profits.

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