Category: Marijuana News

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General marijuana news and commentary

January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
Advocates of Industrial Hemp Point to Kentucky’s Past As Top Producer

Advocates of Industrial Hemp Point to Kentucky’s Past As Top Producer

Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer and Republican US Sen. Rand Paul are among those pushing to revive industrial hemp in the state. It’s ironic, Comer said in a...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
First Private Marijuana Clubs Open in Colorado

First Private Marijuana Clubs Open in Colorado

05:51pm At least two members-only recreational marijuana clubs opened in Colorado Monday, one in Denver and one in the small southern Colorado town of Del Norte,...
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January 1, 2013
01/01/2013
Who Will Legalize Marijuana Next?

Who Will Legalize Marijuana Next?

With Washington and Colorado having passed legal marijuana legislation, it’s only a matter of time before more states follow suit. A recent article at the Huffington Post...
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Denver Host to Nation’s First Legal Cannabis Club

Denver Host to Nation’s First Legal Cannabis Club

This morning I happened to come across a press release email blast announcing that Denver, Colorado is host to the first legal cannabis club in the United...
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Pot Baker to Be Acquitted, But Leaves Door Open for Canada to Ban Edibles

Pot Baker to Be Acquitted, But Leaves Door Open for Canada to Ban Edibles

Owen Smith, the head baker of the Cannabis Buyers’ Club of Canada, will be acquitted of two outstanding drug offences, but lawyers say the Crown has left the...
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Mason Tvert Takes New Role to Focus On National Cannabis Reform

Mason Tvert Takes New Role to Focus On National Cannabis Reform

Mason Tvert is now the communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, the national lobbying group that is the parent organization for Tvert’s SAFER Colorado and was...
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Bill in Texas Seeks to Soften Penalty for Marijuana Possession

Bill in Texas Seeks to Soften Penalty for Marijuana Possession

The Texas state legislature will begin debating House Bill (HB) 184 , which calls for marijuana possession of 1 oz. or less to become a Class C misdemeanor...
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Michigan Employers Exempted from Medical Marijuana Expenses for Workplace Injuries

Michigan Employers Exempted from Medical Marijuana Expenses for Workplace Injuries

Michigan employers will not have to reimburse employees for medical marijuana expenses for work-related injuries under a local lawmaker’s bill that Governor Snyder has signed into law.
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Barney Frank: “We should press our advantage.”

Barney Frank: “We should press our advantage.”

I attended a progressive event with MPP’s Morgan Fox in D.C. last Tuesday, where Congressmen John Conyers (D-MI) and Barney Frank (D-MA) both spoke. Unsolicited — in...
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December 28, 2012
12/28/2012
German Court Allows Patients to Grow Own Pot

German Court Allows Patients to Grow Own Pot

A German court has ruled in favor of allowing seriously ill patients to grow their own cannabis for medical treatment. But the ruling, with certain stipulations, could...
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December 28, 2012
12/28/2012
Connecticut Gold Coast Slow to Embrace Medical Marijuana Industry

Connecticut Gold Coast Slow to Embrace Medical Marijuana Industry

Champions of the Connecticut medical marijuana movement are wary that municipalities in Fairfield County’s Gold Coast, where Republicans hold most of the top offices, won’t nurture the...
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December 28, 2012
12/28/2012
Timeline: A History of Marijuana in California and the U.S.

Timeline: A History of Marijuana in California and the U.S.

This illustrated marijuana timeline runs from 1911, when Massachusetts became the first state to outlaw marijuana, to just this month, when President Obama said the recent legalization of recreational...
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December 28, 2012
12/28/2012
Marijuana Retail Shops May Be Few, Far Between in Seattle

Marijuana Retail Shops May Be Few, Far Between in Seattle

Ben Livingston, with the Center for Legal Cannabis, has created a map showing where marijuana retail stores will be outlawed within Seattle. According to the new law,...
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December 27, 2012
12/27/2012
Over a Dozen NYC Maternity Wards Regularly Test New Mothers for Marijuana

Over a Dozen NYC Maternity Wards Regularly Test New Mothers for Marijuana

Over a dozen NYC maternity wards regularly test new mothers for drugs, then hand the results over to child-protection authorities if they test positive for marijuana. Surprise…...
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December 27, 2012
12/27/2012
Does Marijuana Cause Psychosis in Kids? or Do Troubled Kids Seek the Drug Out?

Does Marijuana Cause Psychosis in Kids? or Do Troubled Kids Seek the Drug Out?

Pot use may be linked to the development of psychotic symptoms in teens – but the reverse could also be true: psychosis in adolescents may be linked...
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December 27, 2012
12/27/2012
Miss Universe Olivia Culpo: Medical Marijuana Is Good, but Recreational Pot Will Slow People Down

Miss Universe Olivia Culpo: Medical Marijuana Is Good, but Recreational Pot Will Slow People Down

Westword has a nice synopsis of the newly crowned Miss Universe (Olivia Culpo) thoughts on marijuana: “Medical marijuana is fine, she said in an interview, but recreational pot is...
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December 26, 2012
12/26/2012
First Marijuana Growers in Washington D.C. Clear Regulatory Hurdles

First Marijuana Growers in Washington D.C. Clear Regulatory Hurdles

Fifteen years after voters gave the green-light to a medical marijuana program in the nation’s capital, a pair of locations approved to grow or sell the drug...
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December 26, 2012
12/26/2012
Mendocino Files Motion to Quash Feds’ Marijuana Subpoena

Mendocino Files Motion to Quash Feds’ Marijuana Subpoena

Mendocino County officials filed a motion last Friday to try to quash a federal grand jury subpoena seeking records by Jan 8th about a now-canceled county program...
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December 26, 2012
12/26/2012
Men Are Usually Top Medical and Recretional Marijuana Users

Men Are Usually Top Medical and Recretional Marijuana Users

Medical marijuana patients are overwhelmingly male in Arizona (73%) and Colorado (68%), the only states to provide patient data by gender. According to the annual National Survey on...
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December 26, 2012
12/26/2012
2012: The Year In Review — NORML’s Top 10 Events That Shaped Marijuana Policy

2012: The Year In Review — NORML’s Top 10 Events That Shaped Marijuana Policy

#1 Colorado and Washington Vote To Legalize Marijuana Voters in Colorado and Washington made history by approving ballot measures allowing for the personal possession and consumption of cannabis by...
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