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DEA Raid on Tribe's Cannabis Crop Infuriates and Confuses Reformers

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Steven Nelson ~ U.S. News & World Report ~

Authorities claim the plants were marijuana, not hemp – but evidence is lacking.

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Stop Wasting Weed: Here’s How To Make Joints Burn Slower - Cannabis News

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The city is getting higher by the day — and we’re not talking about Manhattan skyscrapers.
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Missouri Marijuana Dispensaries to Open Mid-Summer, DHSS Director Says - Cannabi News

Robert Grandt works in the grow room at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver on March 11, 2015. (RJ Sangosti, Denver Post file)
David Migoya and Ricardo Baca ~ The Denver Post ~

New rule would limit industry's choice of pesticides to only those already allowed for use on food for human consumption.

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Colorado Just Issued The First Marijuana Delivery License In The State - Cannabis News

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Kathleen Burke ~ MarketWatch.com ~

Federal regulations force businesses into cash-only operations.
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First medical marijuana research launches in Pennsylvania ~ Cannabis News

Marijuana clones are monitored at the Ataraxia medical marijuana cultivation center in Albion, Ill. Cuttings are taken to this room where they take root and get light 24 hours a day. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
 
The state's restrictive law doesn't allow people to grow their own, so only state-approved cultivation centers with rigid security systems will sell to dispensaries.
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What Artificial Intelligence Will Mean For The Cannabis Space - Cannabis News

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Keith Coffman ~ Reuters ~
 
Despite an increasing number of Americans who do not view marijuana use as a crime, pot arrests across the United States increased last year for the first time since 2009, proponents of the drug's legalization said on Monday.
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Five years in, Washington State considers overhaul of pot regulation - Cannabis News

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Relaxing laws against marijuana is much more popular among the American public than even services like Uber and Airbnb, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey reveals.
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Maine on track for legal marijuana sales by spring 2020 - Cannabis News

A medical marijuana dispensary displays a sign Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, in Portland, Ore. Oregon's medical marijuana dispensaries are getting ready for a watershed moment this week: when recreational pot users will also be able to buy weed at their pot shops. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)
Gosia Wozniacka ~ Associated Press ~
 
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon's medical marijuana dispensaries are getting ready for a watershed moment this week: when recreational pot users will also be able to buy weed at their pot shops.
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Marijuana Legalization Measure Officially Qualifies For South Dakota 2020 Ballot - Cannabis News

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COLUMBUS — While campaigning for legal pot through Issue 3, ResponsibleOhio took steps Tuesday to pass a law that would allow Ohioans with marijuana convictions to go to court to get their records expunged.
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What's in Your Weed? Touring Florida's Marijuana Testing Lab - Cannabis News

Erika Walton, 43, fills out paperwork to have a marijuana violation expunged from her record. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
 
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.
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Former NBA Player Writes Impassioned Plea to End the War on Marijuana - Cannabis News

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
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.
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What Is CBN And Is It Legal? - Cannabis News

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The Drug Enforcement Administration spent $960,000 to destroy marijuana plants in that state in 2014 as part of its "Cannabis Eradication Program," according to a recent report by NBC affiliate KGW in Portland, Ore.
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Wondering why Hemp Seed Oil is being perceived as a wonder Element?

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Shira Schoenberg ~ MassLive.com ~

BOSTON - When Cristina Barbuto of Brewster took a job with a marketing firm, she told the company that she used medical marijuana to treat symptoms of Crohn's disease.
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California Marijuana Growers Reel From Cannabis Farms Consumed By Wildfires

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Whit Richardson ~ Portland Press Herald ~
 
A Passamaquoddy leader says a letter of intent with a Colorado consultant is about hemp production, but that could change, and legal gray areas abound.
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More Businesses Removing Cannabis Testing From Pre-Employment Processes – Cannabis News

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Social Life Network to Present at the 2018 Southern California Investor Conference

Bud & Breakfast, in Denver, is one of a handful of marijuana-friendly accommodations across Colorado.  Image: Theo Stroomer for The New York Times
 
DENVER — Whether bought from a downtown shop or cadged from a friend’s basement greenhouse, legal marijuana is easy to find in Colorado. Places to smoke it, not so much.
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To protect Cannabis workers and customers, approve federal banking act

A multi-agency team supporting Operation Trident, a large-scale marijuana eradication and reclamation mission, in 2010. Image: U.S. Army National Guard via Wikimedia Commons
 
As America's multibillion dollar cannabis industry continues to expand, the nation's drug cops are seizing less weed.
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CBD Companies Positioning Themselves For Cannabis Legalization

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The issue of medical marijuana and zero-tolerance workplace policies remains a major obstacle for cannabis advocates.
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Dava Threads: Ethically Sourced, Hand dyed, Organic Hemp Clothing – Cannabis News

In this Sept. 26, 2014, file photo, smaller-dose pot-infused brownies are divided and packaged at The Growing Kitchen in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Cannabis production as extraction and distillation technologies advance

A warden with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife hacks down pot plants found growing in a deep ravine in the Sierra Nevada foothills. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
 
Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday signed into law a measure allowing steep civil fines against marijuana farms that damage the environment by dumping wastewater and chemicals, removing trees and killing wild animals.
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