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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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.
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.
As America's multibillion dollar cannabis industry continues to expand, the nation's drug cops are seizing less weed.
The issue of medical marijuana and zero-tolerance workplace policies remains a major obstacle for cannabis advocates.
Ed Cara ~ Medical Daily ~
Canadian researchers unraveled the genetic structure of 81 different marijuana and 43 hemp samples, in an attempt to test long-held assumptions about cannabis.
For decades, people of color have paid a heavy price for the war on drugs. It’s well known that minorities are arrested and jailed at disproportionate rates on marijuana-related charges.
April Short ~ Salon.com ~
A new study is raising hackles about pot-laced edibles. The statistics really aren't as alarming as they seem.
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.
FOX 12 Staff ~ KPTV.com ~
The airport is allowing travelers to board with the legal amount of marijuana on flights that take off and land within Oregon's borders.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hardliners on Judiciary open up to research on medical pot.
WASHINGTON — For all the aspiring and current spies, diplomats and F.B.I. agents living in states that have liberalized marijuana laws, the federal government has a stern warning: Put down the bong, throw out the vaporizer and lose the rolling papers.
Local prosecutors across the state are looking for ways to keep minor marijuana cases out of court.
