Spread of legal marijuana outpacing awareness of risks, study suggests
Support for legalizing marijuana in the United States is at its highest in nearly 50 years – and with it comes a hike in both cannabis use and dependence, a new study has found. The findings suggest...
View ArticleWashington Expects Pot Sales Tax Revenue Surge to $1 Billion
Washington state expects marijuana sales taxes to bring in more than $1 billion over the next four years, according to a budget forecast published by the Office of Financial Management. In the first...
View ArticleFull story on marijuana in Colorado is still being written
A customer considers various types of marijuana at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver on Jan. 2, 2014, the day after legal recreational pot sales began in...
View ArticlePot stocks soar following Justin Trudeau, Liberal win
Pot plants aren't the only thing thriving under Bruce Linton's watchful gaze. The CEO of Canopy Growth Corp. -- the Smiths Falls-based enterprise formerly known as Tweed, North America's first...
View ArticleTrudeau's pot promise: Here's how other places legalized it
Now that the Liberals are in power, Canadians want to know if prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau will keep his word and legalize marijuana or if his promise will simply go up in smoke. According...
View ArticleCasualties of the War on Drugs
The Justice department will begin releasing inmates who committed nonviolent drug crimes at the end of this month. This decision comes off the heels of President Obama's July decision to commute the...
View ArticleMexico may legalise recreational marijuana
Mexico's supreme court plans to discuss a proposal that could effectively legalize the consumption and production of marijuana for recreational use in a session at...
View ArticleNature's Cure of Denver recalls pot products containing pesticides
The second shop in just over a week recalls an undisclosed amount of marijuana treated with a pesticide not allowed for use on pot A grow light shines through the leaves of a cannabis plant. (Seth...
View ArticleMexico supreme court to discuss legalizing recreational marijuana
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's supreme court plans to discuss a proposal that could effectively legalize the consumption and production of marijuana for recreational use in a...
View ArticleOregon Pot Dispensaries Sell Over $11 Million In Just 5 Days
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Retailers sold more than $11 million of marijuana during Oregon's first week of legal recreational sales, outpacing the early business done in other states that have legalized pot,...
View ArticleMarijuana is not harmless
Sunday’s Boston Globe Magazine section included an interesting article from Dr. Sushrut Jangi entitled “Can We Please Stop Pretending Marijuana is Harmless?” Dr. Jangi is an internist and instructor in...
View ArticleOregon pot stores sell more than $11 million in first 5 days
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Retailers sold more than $11 million of marijuana during Oregon's first week of legal recreational sales, outpacing the early business done in other states that have legalized pot,...
View ArticleLib Dems to develop proposals for a regulated cannabis market (Liberal...
(Source: Liberal Democrats) The Liberal Democrats have set up an independent panel of experts to establish how a legalised market for cannabis could work in the United Kingdom. It comes ahead of a...
View ArticleMarijuana industry rides high thanks to celebrity investors
Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg’s involvement in the burgeoning marijuana business may not come as a shock, but professional athletes and a former boyband member are also getting in on a potentially...
View ArticleLegalization of marijuana addressed at CBU’s Distinguished Lecture Series...
(Source: California Baptist University) Riverside, Calif. (Oct. 13, 2015) - Colorado's top public health officer reflected on a variety of implications from the legalization of marijuana use during a...
View ArticleFinding a Place for Cannabis Cash
Shaun Gindi brought a duffel bag stuffed with a thousand $20 bills to open a checking account at his local Chase branch. The bank closed his account after a week. As the owner of two marijuana shops...
View ArticleWelcome to Pueblo, Colorado: the 'pot rush' town for marijuana lovers
Drawn to the city’s legal weed and low cost of living, families across the US travel to Pueblo looking to make a new life in the so-called Silicon Valley of marijuana...
View ArticleChile to allow sale of marijuana-derived drugs
Chile plans to allow the sale of marijuana-derived medication in pharmacies, a government health official said Friday. President Michelle Bachelet is expected to...
View ArticleOregon makes $11 million in first week of recreational marijuana sales
Oregon dispensaries just made $11 million after the state’s first week of selling recreational pot. KGW News reports that the state’s dispensaries...
View ArticleColorado officials have advice on legalizing marijuana for Justin Trudeau
VANCOUVER -- A Colorado official has some sobering words of advice for Justin Trudeau if he fulfils his promise to legalize pot in Canada. "It's going to be a lot harder to implement than you think....
View ArticleLegalising cannabis in the UK 'would raise hundreds of millions and produce...
Legalising cannabis would raise taxes worth hundreds of millions of pounds and produce large savings for the criminal justice system, a private analysis for the Treasury has concluded. It judged that...
View ArticleDigiPath Leverages Nevada Foothold to Expand in 2016
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenWave Advisors Founder Matthew Karnes once called cannabis testing "the most attractive subsector of the industry" adding that it could generate close to a...
View ArticleIs Responsible Ohio's mascot Buddie 'the Joe Camel of marijuana'?
For the first time in the US, a campaign to legalize cannabis has taken on the air of a big business lobby – and in so doing risks alienating those who brought the movement this far...
View ArticleInside The Bizarre Battle To Make Marijuana Legal In Ohio
It was unusually warm for late September, but Buddie didn't seem to mind. As the mascot for a plan to legalize marijuana in Ohio, Buddie has a superhero’s physique, a green bumpy head, and a winning...
View ArticleMarijuana businesses voice fear of a Republican president
On Wednesday, GOP candidates will take the stage in Colorado, which has embraced legal cannabis. But several of those presidential hopefuls have marijuana industry worried: ‘I go to work every day and...
View ArticleColorado Springs City Council set for final vote on marijuana club moratorium
The Colorado Springs City Council is pushing to enact a six-month moratorium on new marijuana consumption clubs, and will...
View ArticleOregon marijuana stores sell more than $11m in first week of recreational sales
The Oregon Retailers of Cannabis Association estimates that marijuana stores sold more than $11m of marijuana during the state’s first week of legal recreational sales....
View ArticleJustin Trudeau’s Canada victory is also a win for the nation’s marijuana...
Shares in all of Canada’s major listed cannabis companies surged on Tuesday, as the market reacted to Trudeau’s pledge to legalise recreational use...
View ArticleColorado monthly pot sales pass $100 million mark
Colorado recreational marijuana sales near $60 million in August 2015; medical marijuana sales hold steady Monthly marijuana sales in Colorado have soared past the $100 million mark for the first time,...
View ArticleNo on Colorado Proposition BB: It can hurt Colorado
Employee Nikki Desiderio explains different marijuana products to customers at the Helping Hand recreational marijuana store in Boulder. (Jeremy Papasso, Daily Camera) Related Stories Oct 10:YES: It's...
View ArticleAs GOP candidates debate economy, Colorado pot offers opportunity
Newly legal industry promises riches, jobs As Republican presidential candidates prepare to debate economic issues in...
View ArticleMany States Still Grapple With Regulating Medical Marijuana
This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts that provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy....
View ArticleDenver Hosting World’s First Comprehensive Symposium on Marijuana Management...
(Source: City and County of Denver, CO) Denver is gearing up to host the first-ever Marijuana Management Symposium, Nov. 5-6 at the Colorado Convention Center. 'As the first major city in the world to...
View ArticleDenver Hosting World's First Comprehensive Symposium on Marijuana Management...
DENVER, Oct. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Denver is gearing up to host the first-ever Marijuana Management Symposium, Nov. 5-6 at the Colorado Convention Center. "As the first major city in the...
View ArticleU.S. agents crack down on illegal marijuana sites on Colorado public lands
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Several large marijuana cultivation sites in Colorado that were being used by traffickers to ship the drug to other states have been dismantled by federal agents and...
View ArticleColorado monthly marijuana sales top $100 million in one month
Marijuana sales in Colorado have been a huge boon to the economy there. Hundreds of millions of dollars have flowed into the state, creating jobs, raising tax revenue, and generally making the state a...
View ArticleColorado monthly marijuana sales eclipse $100 million mark
Colorado recreational marijuana sales are close to $60 million in August 2015; medical marijuana sales climb slightly Colorado marijuana sales in August surpassed $100 million for the first time....
View ArticleBrookings Institute Sharply Critical of Federal Marijuana Policy
The Brookings Institution, a venerable non-profit research and education association which has been ranked the most influential think tank in the world, has issued a 21-page report entitled For those...
View ArticleBlumenauer Calls For an End to Failed Marijuana Prohibition (Earl Blumenauer)
(Source: Earl Blumenauer) Washington, DC - Today, as representatives from the Oregon Cannabis Association visit Capitol Hill, Representative Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) on the House floor called for an end...
View ArticleColorado Editorial Roundup
The Denver Post, Oct. 22, on marijuana's impact in Colorado: It would be foolish to look solely at the economic benefits generated from legally sold marijuana in Colorado and declare the entire...
View ArticleLiberal CFO could rake in marijuana money with legalization
He may volunteer in his role as chief financial officer with the Liberal Party of Canada, but Chuck Rifici is in line for a big pay day, thanks to one of the party's key platforms. Rifici, who has been...
View ArticleEamonn McCann: Decision looms for Government on legalising marijuana
Watching Bob Dylan at Slane, I found clinching evidence of the factual basis of the first line in Lenny Bruce’s autobiography, How To Talk Dirty And Influence People: “You wouldn’t believe how many...
View ArticlePazoo Expects To Begin Generating Commissioned Based Revenue As Harris Lee...
(Source: Pazoo Inc) WHIPPANY, N.J., Oct. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Pazoo, Inc. (OTC Pinks: PZOO) (German WKN#: A1J3DK), is pleased to announce that for the first time Pazoo will soon begin generating...
View ArticleNY State Legislators Call for Marijuana Legalization at Buffalo Forum (Drug...
(Source: Drug Policy Alliance) Experts and Advocates Call for an End to Failed Marijuana Prohibition & Urge a New Approach Buffalo - Today, Assemblymember Crystal Peoples-Stokes and Senator Liz...
View ArticlePazoo Expects To Begin Generating Commissioned Based Revenue As Harris Lee...
WHIPPANY, N.J., Oct. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Pazoo, Inc. (OTC Pinks: PZOO) (German WKN#: A1J3DK), is pleased to announce that for the first time Pazoo will soon begin generating revenue on a...
View ArticleOpponents say legal marijuana will make it harder for Ohio businesses to fill...
Heading to the finish line of a marijuana-legalization campaign, two statewide officeholders are stressing the potential negative impact on Ohio’s business climate. Secretary of State Jon Husted said,...
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