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Marijuana reforms flood state legislatures – Cannabis News

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A marijuana dispenser in Colorado is modeling his career after an unlikely business hero: TV dinner tycoon Clarence Birdseye, who practically invented the frozen food industry thanks to his dual interests in food preservation and inventing new technology.
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Legal marijuana is replacing black market weed in this state

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Kieran Nicholson ~ Denver Post ~
 
A Denver-based credit union aiming to become the first of its kind — one created to serve the Colorado marijuana industry — has suffered a setback.
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NBA’s Montrezl Harrell busted with three pounds of weed

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Cincinnati area businesses are already pondering what they should do if Ohio votes this fall to legalize marijuana, including use of medicinal pot on the job.
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What’s The Correlation Between Legal Marijuana And Teen Use?

A woman looking for work in the cannabis industry fills out a form in front at the CannaSearch job fair in downtown Denver. File photo from March 13, 2014. Reuters/Rick Wilking/Files
 
Shop owners seek to capitalize not only on the vaping trend, but on the more widespread, and legal, use of medical marijuana.
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Australia's number 1 hemp skincare brand's CBD cleanser and serum has a waitlist of over 27,000

An inside look of Dixie Elixir's grow room in Denver. The edibles manufacturer makes 40 different products, from THC-infused soda to gourmet chocolate, yet it all starts with the cannabis plant. IMAGE: Will Yakowicz
 
Entrepreneurs are trying to boost sales by steering pot toward the Whole Foods crowd.
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The First FDA Approved Cannabis-Based Medication Is Now Available to Purchase - Cannabis News

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Will Smith’s Bud Bar Displays sells wares in 23 states and overseas.
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Fly with Cannabis – Which Countries Let You Do It

Some Colorado dispensaries pay for the cleanup of litter along sections of the roadways. In return, they get their signs put up and advertise their name.  Photo: KWGN
 
DENVER — Colorado’s booming marijuana industry is getting around a ban on some advertising by sponsoring some sections of Colorado highways with new signs.
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Brewing up buds: Beverages companies enter cannabis game - Cannabis News

Some of the cold-pressed fruit and vegetable juices, infused with cannabis, being made available in D.C. Photo: Nevin Martell
 
A District company has introduced five so-called medibles for medical marijuana patients.
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Pastor Jamal Bryant shares plans to launch Cannabis Business

Cannabis City clerk Will Bibbs, left, helps a customer looking over a display case of marijuana products at the shop in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
 
A year after legalization, cannabis tax revenues in the state have topped expectations and sales top $1.4 million per day.
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Inflation trimming back Cannabis spending, say retailers

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Allison Manning ~ Boston.com ~
 
You may have a passion for the product, but getting the go-ahead to start growing and selling marijuana in Massachusetts can be a long, expensive and difficult path.
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Biden’s Statement on Marijuana Reform: What Does it Mean?

Robert Grandt works in the grow room at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver on March 11. Marijuana growing facilities contributed to the city's energy use increase. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
Bruce Finley ~ Denver Post ~
 
Metro Denver’s surging legal marijuana industry means surging energy usage in the region.
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Marijuana Legalization In Europe: Is France Next? – Cannabis News

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Medical Marijuana policies for Schools in the Works

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As pot laws liberalize, cannabis capitalists eye opportunities for business—and to upend stereotypes. But can white-collar workers handle it, man?
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Office of Cannabis Policy hosts town-hall Discussion on Industry

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Edibles could emerge as a multimillion-dollar food industry in the northwestern U.S. in the next few years
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Marijuana vs. Hemp: What's the Difference? – Cannabis News

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Kentucky senator backs legalizing marijuana to fund state's pensions crisis - Cannabis News

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JOHNSTOWN, Ohio -- Andy Joseph didn't seek the marijuana industry -- it found him.
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What Is The Best Time Of Day To Get High?

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The hype over hemp that erupted last year during Colorado's first sensational flirtations with the marijuana look-alike is now starting to live up to expectations. 
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Filmmaking Couple Touches on Medical Marijuana's Social Stigma - Cannabis News

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Inside a cannabis shop's emerging business model
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DEA Will Begin Granting Marijuana Cultivation Licenses

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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.
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Federal raids cool tribal excitement over potential marijuana profits – Marijuana News

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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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