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Medical Marijuana Seen By Some As Successor To Steel In Western Pennsylvania – Cannabis News

BRADDOCK (KDKA) — When the steel jobs left the Mon Valley, towns like Braddock fell into decline. Mayor John Fetterman believes that marijuana may help turn things around. 

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Hemp Entrepreneurship Webinar for Small and Minority-Owned Companies

The projections from the report by New Frontier Data paint a pretty rosy picture for folks interested in entering into the legal cannabis industry.

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Ban On Cannabis Businesses Overturned By Enfield Town Council

Marijuana distributors are already lining up to pick brand names for their buds once sales become legal in 2018.

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California's marijuana production is already mind boggling – Cannabis News

The estimated value of marijuana is more than the top five leading cash farm receipts for commodities in California combined.

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BMW Continues To Pursue Hemp Materials

ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Tax dollars from Alaska’s new marijuana industry have finally begun flowing into state coffers, with the first cash payments from pot businesses being made in Anchorage this week.

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South Dakota Subcommittee Says No to Home Grown Medical Marijuana

ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Tax dollars from Alaska’s new marijuana industry have finally begun flowing into state coffers, with the first cash payments from pot businesses being made in Anchorage this week.

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The Marijuana Banking Bill Gets More Pressure From Political Figures

On the eve of a vote that could legalize recreational marijuana in Massachusetts, a Colorado company is preparing to build the state’s largest marijuana greenhouse, a sprawling, high-tech complex that could eventually expand to nearly 1 million square feet.

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Social and Racial Equity in the Cannabis Influencer Industry

States that implemented medical marijuana laws experienced an especially notable drop in painkiller prescriptions.

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Indoor cannabis grow centers responsible for 10% of industrial electricity consumption in Massachusetts

DENVER — Normally, when a company based in one state wants to sell products in another state, it starts calling truckers. For Strainz, a Las Vegas marijuana company, it was more complicated.

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The Hotel Industry Is Making a Killing Off Marijuana Legalization, Study Finds - Cannabis News

U.S. Capitol. Image: Jorge Gallovia via Wikimedia Commons
 
State lawmakers are calling on the federal government to change its drug laws to let states experiment with marijuana and hemp policy.
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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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Gary Johnson: Marijuana doesn't make you stupid – Cannabis News

Cannabis leaf and Texas State Capitol Building
John Austin ~ CNHI State Reporter via Cleburne Times-Review ~
 
AUSTIN — Texans with epilepsy may not be buying legal cannabis oil here until 2017, but home-grown entrepreneurs are already lining up for a cut of the mainstream marijuana business.
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Reimbursed Sales of Medical Cannabis in Germany Grew by 34% in 2020

Stanford Law School students prepare for a presentation on California marijuana policy options at the RAND Corp. office in Santa Monica, California, in May.  Photo:  Stanford Law School

Clifton B. Parker ~ Stanford University ~

Stanford law students offer an analysis on how California could most effectively implement marijuana legalization for recreational use if voters approve ballot measures on the issue in 2016.
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Legal cannabis now supports 243,700 full-time American jobs - Cannabis News

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Congress voted on two amendments to a Department of Justice spending bill Wednesday that would protect marijuana businesses in states where they're legal, but only one of them passed.
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