Cannabis News

Honolulu, Hawaii. Hip Hop artist Snoop Dogg at a special concert for over 8000 military personnel and their dependents during the 2005  Bodog Salutes the Troops event.  Image: US Navy via Wikimedia Commons

Snoop Dogg just launched a cannabis lifestyle website

AFP ~

San Francisco (AFP) - Snoop Dogg is rolling his love for cannabis into a new lifestyle website intended to be an online "encyclopedia" for anything anyone would want to know about pot.
Cannabis bud at a Denver grow facility. Image: WeedWorthy.com

Colorado's marijuana tax revenues nearly double 2014 figures

Scott Keyes ~ The Guardian ~

Legal marijuana tax revenues have been breaking records in Colorado this summer, nearly doubling monthly numbers from last year and on pace to exceed projections of legal sales that bring revenue back to the state.
Former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush at New Hampshire Education Summit August 19th, 2015. Image: Michael Vadon via Wikimedia Commons

All of these presidential candidates have admitted smoking marijuana

Jeb Bush certainly wasn’t the first presidential candidate to admit having smoked weed. Here are 15, including a few who ultimately became president.

Jonathan Holmgren with medical cannabis products at his home in Spring Lake Park, Minn. Holmgren is back to using the raw plant that the state still deems illegal to treat his Crohn's disease. AP Photo/Jim Mone via TwinCities.com

Some Minnesota marijuana patients opting to buy illegally

Kyle Potter ~ Associated Press ~
 
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Just two months after Minnesota launched its medical marijuana program, some patients turned off by high costs say they are back to buying the drug illegally because it's the only way they can afford it.
Erika Walton, 43, fills out paperwork to have a marijuana violation expunged from her record. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

The Legal Sale of Marijuana in Oregon Comes With Reprieve

 
As it prepares to begin retail marijuana sales next month, Oregon is blazing a profoundly new trail, legal experts and marijuana business people said, to rethink cannabis-related violations.
Ronda Rousey after her open workout at Dinamo center, Yerevan, Armenia. Image: Narek75 via Wikimedia Commons

Ronda Rousey speaks out against punishing athletes for marijuana

 
Ronda Rousey just made it known that she’s against drug testing for marijuana.
Connecticut State Capitol, Hartford Connecticut. Image: John Phelan via Wikimedia Commons

Connecticut Gets 19 Proposals For Medical Marijuana Dispensary Expansion

Kenneth R. Gosselin ~ Hartford Courant ~

The state wants to add as many as three medical marijuana dispensaries — especially in New Haven and Fairfield counties — and now there are 19 proposals for rolling out the expansion.
Taylor West, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association,  spoke at Nashville NERVE conference showing the latest data on the marijuana industry on Friday, Sept. 18, 2015. (Photo: Shelley Mays/The Tennessean)

Marijuana market: High risk, high reward

 
Marijuana is illegal in Tennessee, but when and if the law changes, the business opportunities will be vast — along with the risks.
Video Image via Westword

Snoop Dogg Loves Colorado and the Cannabis Tax Holiday

 
The Doggfather himself made a public service announcement wishing everyone in Colorado a happy pot tax holiday.
The logo for the Michigan Cannabis Coalition, one of two groups seeking to put a marijuana legalization proposal on the Michigan ballot in 2016. Image via MLive.com

Michigan marijuana legalization group, at half way point in petition drive, dives deep into data - Cannabis News

Jonathan Oosting ~ MLive.com ~

LANSING, MI -- The Michigan Cannabis Coalition still isn't saying much about its investors, but it's learning a lot about supporters who are signing its petition to legalize recreational marijuana for adults. 


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