Cannabis News

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Will Justin Trudeau Make Good on Promise to Legalize Marijuana?

 
Canada’s new prime minister has promised his Liberal Party will legalize marijuana across the entire country.
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Get ready for Halloween with pumpkin pie-flavored cannabis

Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
The Arizona-based creator of Juicy Rips says his products show how open the legal marijuana industry and its consumers are to innovation.
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New Yorkers are smoking pot in public like it is no big deal

 
The city is getting higher by the day — and we’re not talking about Manhattan skyscrapers.
Marijuana at the Inyo Fine Cannabis Dispensary in Las Vegas, Sept. 30, 2015. Image: Jason Ogulnik, Las Vegas Review-Journal

No typical medical marijuana user in Nevada

Eric Hartley ~ Las Vegas Review-Journal ~
 
Among the more than 11,000 people with state-issued patient cards are the very young and very old. They include people living with cancer, HIV, seizures, glaucoma or other conditions.
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College football coaches grapple with 'marijuana epidemic'

 
Schools are stuck enforcing the rules of a college-football system that hasn't embraced some of society's growing acceptance of marijuana use.
A tractor cuts a small plot of hemp at a University of Kentucky research plot near Lexington. Image: Dylan Lovan, Associated Press via Washingtonpost.com

The South says no to marijuana but yes to hemp

 
Tobacco isn’t the reliable cash crop it once was. And that has hundreds of other farmers across the South revisiting a plant from deep in the region’s past: industrial hemp.
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Ohio now a battleground state for marijuana

Barry Petersen ~ CBS News ~
 
Four states already allow recreational pot, but approved medical marijuana first. Now, Ohio could make history by legalizing both at the same time, and the pro-marijuana camp is ramping up as the days until the vote are counting down.
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Australian government to legalise growing of medicinal cannabis; Labor calls for nationwide scheme

 
The Federal Government has announced it will legalise the growing of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
Mark Goldfogel with The Fourth Corner Credit Union speaks at the National Cannabis Summit. Image: WeedWorthy.com

The marijuana banking dilemma

Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
Denver’s Fourth Corner Credit Union launched last year as an answer to the legal marijuana industry’s inability to access financial institutions. But the Fed had other plans.
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Pot warehouse possible for Maryland Eastern Shore

Jeremy Cox, The (Salisbury, Md.) Daily Times ~ via USAToday.com ~
 
PRINCESS ANNE, Md. -- Somerset County could soon be home to one of Maryland's first medical marijuana facilities.

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