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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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New York to look at legalizing recreational pot - Cannabis News

Ronda Rousey after her open workout at Dinamo center, Yerevan, Armenia. Image: Narek75 via Wikimedia Commons
 
Ronda Rousey just made it known that she’s against drug testing for marijuana.
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Sustainable solutions: How hemp is being used to make prosthetic limbs

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Eric Lupher ~ TheDenverChannel.com ~
 
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The next big marijuana trend may have just hit the ground running in Colorado Springs. Soon, people there will be able to get gas and buy weed.
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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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How Weed Edibles Are Shedding Their Stigma In The Food World - Cannabis News

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, (D-NY) speaks at a Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 4, 2013. REUTERS/Larry Downing
 
Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is set to become the first ever sitting senator to give a keynote speech for a cannabis industry conference later in September, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
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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

Pre-rolled joints at a Denver dispensary. Image: WeedWorthy.com
 
The issue of medical marijuana and zero-tolerance workplace policies remains a major obstacle for cannabis advocates.
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Cannabis guide: 10 DOS X DONT'S for tourists issued!

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Canadian researchers unraveled the genetic structure of 81 different marijuana and 43 hemp samples, in an attempt to test long-held assumptions about cannabis.
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Does the legal marijuana industry have a race problem?

Co-owners of the recreational marijuana store, Bud Nation, strive to maintain a diverse set of employees in an industry that is predominantly white. Image: Courtesy Bud Nation.

This brand manufactured over 2 Million Pre-Rolls in 2022

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A new study is raising hackles about pot-laced edibles. The statistics really aren't as alarming as they seem.
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Polish Bill to Legalize Medical Cannabis Reaches Parlimentary Committee

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The city of Arcata has created what is believed to be the nation’s first-ever land use designation specifically meant to promote and regulate the production of marijuana and cannabis-related products.
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Rhode Island Senate Approves Legal Cannabis

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The airport is allowing travelers to board with the legal amount of marijuana on flights that take off and land within Oregon's borders.
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Massachusetts Cannabis Commission Fines Tilt Holdings, Ayr Strategies

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James Doubek ~ NPR.org ~
 
The legal cannabis industry is using favorable public opinion and a newly legal cash flow to try to transform itself into a force in national politics.
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Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Delayed by Tracking System Lawsuit

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Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
Texas-based Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition (RAMP) is looking to educate fellow GOP members, as well as the party’s leadership and its grassroots activists.
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Which country is really the No. 1 consumer of marijuana? – Marijuana News

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Kristen Wyatt ~ Associated Press ~
 
DENVER — A federal law crafted to fight the mob is giving marijuana opponents a new strategy in their battle to stop the expanding industry: racketeering lawsuits.
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Dispensaries Expecting Big Sales Prior To 420 Holiday

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Natalie Grover ~ Reuters ~
 
As cannabis bans are relaxed in more U.S. states, the race is on to develop an instant roadside breathalyzer for police to test drivers who may be taking the "high" road.
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Tests find some early Arizona hemp crops have too much THC - Cannabis News

Cannabis plant at a Denver grow facilility. Photo: WeedWorthy.com
 
Pot shops would have access to banks under new legislation in the Senate.
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FBI and San Bernardino County sheriff accused of breaking law by seizing marijuana cash

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Brad Bowman ~ The State Journal ~
 
Democratic Sen. Perry Clark spoke at the Mensa Annual Gathering in Louisville on Wednesday in an effort to clear the smoke about myths surrounding cannabis.
Clark was one of several presenters invited to the four-day Mensa event at the Galt House.
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Can Hemp help reverse chronic conditions like diabetes?

A large gathering was held at the Burnside Bridge Tuesday night as recreational marijuana became legal at midnight, July 1, 2015, in Oregon. Beth Nakamura/ Oregonian Staff
 
Oregonians who plan to smoke, cultivate or carry cannabis under the state's new recreational marijuana law should make sure they do it in the roughly 47 percent of Oregon where it's strictly legal.
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Survey reveals risks, rewards of cannabis use

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Hardliners on Judiciary open up to research on medical pot.
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