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Why Conservatives Should Support Marijuana Legalization
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Researchers suspect cannabis can do so many things, from fighting cancer to easing concussions and Crohn’s disease. There are still tight restrictions but weed is increasingly coming into the scientific mainstream.
What The Experts Are Now Saying About Medical Marijuana For Lung Cancer
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Medical News
Los Angeles County voters will decide this fall whether to tax marijuana businesses to help pay for housing and health services for the homeless.
'El Chapo's' errand runner — a key to the kingpin's ultimate capture — sentenced in San Diego
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV.com) - Missouri’s first legal cannabis growth operation since the 1930’s is up and running and already helping patients with epilepsy.
Cannabis companies are taking cues, and employees, from the fashion industry - Cannabis News
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Fashion
Presidential frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump don’t agree on much, but when it comes to legalizing the use of medicinal marijuana, they’re both pro pot.
DSPD uncovers pounds of marijuana and thousands of dollars during traffic stop
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CLEVELAND ― Republican delegates meeting on Monday voted not to endorse medical cannabis in their party’s official platform. In the process, however, they managed to air some of the wildest unproven theories about marijuana.
Teen sent to prison for Marijuana-related killing
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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted unanimously yesterday to legalize industrial hemp across the state, sending the legislation to Gov. Tom Wolf.
The hemp revival: why marijuana's cousin could soon be big business - Cannabis News
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Cannabis News
ORLANDO — The Democratic Party endorsed a "reasoned pathway to future legalization" of marijuana and called for the drug to be downgraded in the Controlled Substances Act, in a tense and unexpected victory for supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Tips: How to get started in the cannabis business
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Business & Finance
“The federal government needs to do more than just allow states to be the laboratories of democracy when it comes to marijuana,” wrote Rep. Blumenauer and his allies.
What should you know about cholesterol, cannabis and CBD?
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Medical News
It calls for a pilot program through the Hawaii Department of Agriculture.
Las Vegas to get its first Cannabis-friendly hotel
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Business & Finance
The state’s budding marijuana market could be one of the largest in the country within a matter of years if 60 percent of voters approve Amendment 2.
"I don't do this for fun." Patients are hopeful Texas will expand access to medical cannabis - Cannabis News
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Activism
See where medical marijuana is legal and on the ballot this November.
Seniors with access to medical marijuana use fewer prescription drugs – Cannabis News
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Medical News
Physicians wrote significantly fewer prescriptions for painkillers and other medications for elderly and disabled patients who had legal access to medical marijuana, a new study finds.
Medical marijuana act signatures validated, will appear on Arkansas ballot – Cannabis News
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An initiated act aimed at legalizing medical marijuana has been cleared for a popular vote Nov. 8.
Could Hemp Grow Back to Aid Sustainability Efforts? – Cannabis News
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Cannabis News
Hemp could disrupt the myriad industries that produce and use plastics. You can make a car out of hemp. Imagine a hemp car with an engine running on clean-burning biofuel.
FDA approves cannabis-based treatment for cancer, AIDS-related weight loss – Cannabis News
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Medical News
Insys Therapeutics Inc. announced Tuesday, July 5, that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company’s drug Syndros, an orally administered liquid formulation of the synthetic cannabinoid dronabinol, according to a release.
Molson Coors Is the Latest Beermaker to Consider Adding Buds to Suds - Cannabis News
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Business & Finance
The highest court in Massachusetts is rewriting the wording of a ballot question that seeks to legalize recreational marijuana, announcing the change in a ruling issued Wednesday morning.
Dems eye marijuana bill as vehicle for justice measures
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Politics
In West Virginia, residents will soon be seeing a lot more green than they’re used to. And it may come in the form of dollar bills, too.
3 new recreational marijuana stores opening this week in New Jersey
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Business & Finance
It's going to be pretty hard to keep weed illegal when your grandparents are smoking it to prevent Alzheimer's.

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