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January 18, 2013
01/18/2013
Mason Tvert Says Limiting Pot Sales to Colorado Residents Would Be Unconstitutional

Mason Tvert Says Limiting Pot Sales to Colorado Residents Would Be Unconstitutional

“It’s entirely unconstitutional and it’ll just subject the state to costly litigation,” says Tvert, of the Marijuana Policy Project and critic of Project SAM, an organization that opposes...
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January 17, 2013
01/17/2013
Big Cannabis: Growing the Next Great American Industry

Big Cannabis: Growing the Next Great American Industry

For entrepreneur Troy Dayton, providing basic services like insurance and capital management amounts to revolutionary business. The support his firm ArcView supplies might sound standard, but the...
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January 17, 2013
01/17/2013
High Times’ Cannabis Cup to be Held in United States for First Time

High Times’ Cannabis Cup to be Held in United States for First Time

High Times is bringing its Cannabis Cup competition for recreational marijuana to Denver April 20-21, the first time the event has been held in the United States.
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January 15, 2013
01/15/2013
Study: Per Se Drugged Driving Laws Have Little or No Impact on Traffic Deaths

Study: Per Se Drugged Driving Laws Have Little or No Impact on Traffic Deaths

The imposition of so-called per se drugged driving laws, which create new traffic safety violations for drivers who operate a vehicle with the presence of trace amounts of certain...
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January 9, 2013
01/09/2013
187,000 Pounds of Marijuana Annually? Legal Pot Business to Bloom in Washington

187,000 Pounds of Marijuana Annually? Legal Pot Business to Bloom in Washington

Pot is expected to be big business in Washington. Roughly 1,000 grow sites will be needed to meet demand, with 363,000 consumers in the state anticipated to...
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January 9, 2013
01/09/2013
Drug Czar Sees “Serious National Conversation” About Marijuana

Drug Czar Sees “Serious National Conversation” About Marijuana

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP—the drug czar’s office) head Gil Kerlikowske said Tuesday that the country is “in the midst of a serious national conversation...
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January 8, 2013
01/08/2013
Fights over Medical Marijuana Case Evidence Could Be Costly in Colorado

Fights over Medical Marijuana Case Evidence Could Be Costly in Colorado

A medical marijuana grower acquitted of drug-cultivation charges at a December trial wants Colorado Springs police to return her marijuana — or fork over $3.3 million in...
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January 7, 2013
01/07/2013
Colorado Task Force Considering Anti-marijuana Tourism Regulation

Colorado Task Force Considering Anti-marijuana Tourism Regulation

Some prohibitionists on a 24 member Colorado task force setup to help the governor and Legislature implement Amendment 64 are now trying ignore the will of Coloradan voters...
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January 7, 2013
01/07/2013
Tell Obama To ‘Just Say No’ to Joe

Tell Obama To ‘Just Say No’ to Joe

A White House online petition telling Obama to listen to the voters of Colorado and Washington about the future of cannabis legalization, not the famously anti-cannabis/pro drug war architect...
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January 7, 2013
01/07/2013
Recreational MJ Sales in CO is Still Illegal – and Dangerous

Recreational MJ Sales in CO is Still Illegal – and Dangerous

Amendment 64 has already legalized possession and use of marijuana for all adults. Many people have gone further, assuming that selling marijuana is no longer going to...
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January 7, 2013
01/07/2013
Mexico Considers Marijuana Legalization After Ballot Wins in US

Mexico Considers Marijuana Legalization After Ballot Wins in US

Mexico’s new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, opposes marijuana legalization, but he also told CNN recently that the news from Washington and Colorado “could bring us to rethinking the...
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January 4, 2013
01/04/2013
‘Cannabis-Friendly’ Coffee and Tea Shop Opens in Lafayette, Colorado

‘Cannabis-Friendly’ Coffee and Tea Shop Opens in Lafayette, Colorado

By day, The Front Tea & Art Shop sells papier-mache piggy banks, handmade flutes and elaborate carvings alongside tea leaves and hemp coffee. By night, the corner...
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January 4, 2013
01/04/2013
Do Alcohol and Marijuana Mix? Colorado is About to Find Out

Do Alcohol and Marijuana Mix? Colorado is About to Find Out

In the debate over what marijuana legalization means for Colorado, the best drug-policy brains in the nation say there is one question getting short shrift: If people...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
THC University in Denver Offers Class On How to Grow Pot

THC University in Denver Offers Class On How to Grow Pot

THC University, “the first professional marijuana cultivation training program in Colorado,” is set to offer its first class on February 9th at the Auraria Campus (downtown Denver). There...
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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
Interview: AJ the Hashman of At Home Baked, and Colorado MMJ Meet and Greet

Interview: AJ the Hashman of At Home Baked, and Colorado MMJ Meet and Greet

Weedists: Meet AJ the Hashman “Weedists are the people who are out there fighting the good fight and these are their stories.” Many MMJ patients in Colorado...
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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
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 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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December 21, 2012
12/21/2012
The Top Ten Drug Policy Stories of 2012

The Top Ten Drug Policy Stories of 2012

012, 11:21am In some ways, 2012 has been a year of dramatic, exciting change in drug policy, as the edifice of global drug prohibition appears to crumble...
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