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  1. Katelyn Baker

    CA: Everything To Know About Marijuana Measure On November Ballot

    Los Angeles, CA - The recreational use of marijuana and hemp would become legal, with sales taxes imposed upon them, under an initiative going before California voters on Nov. 8. Proposition 64 would also establish packaging, labeling, advertising and marketing standards and restrictions for...
  2. Katelyn Baker

    AR: Gov. Hutchinson Counts Regulatory Costs Of Marijuana Amendment

    Passage of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment would cost the Arkansas Department of Health and the Department of Finance and Administration between $4 million and $5.8 million annually to regulate, with the state forced to come up with the money on the front end before sales tax revenues...
  3. Katelyn Baker

    AR: Gov. Hutchinson Counts Regulatory Costs Of Marijuana Amendment

    Passage of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment would cost the Arkansas Department of Health and the Department of Finance and Administration between $4 million and $5.8 million annually to regulate, with the state forced to come up with the money on the front end before sales tax revenues...
  4. Katelyn Baker

    Colorado Officials Broadcast An Inconsistent Message Legal Marijuana Measures

    'As goes Colorado, so goes the rest of the nation," is an oft-uttered truism heard from stakeholders in the state's burgeoning marijuana industry. Indeed all eyes are on Colorado - the lab rat in this experiment that is legalization - especially as nine other states consider cannabis-related...
  5. Katelyn Baker

    AZ: The Dark Opposition Behind Marijuana Legalization

    ​Legalization and the impact it could have. November 8th is right around the corner and all of this rhetoric we have heard over the last year has been exhausting. It has been difficult to sift through the nonsense to make an informed decision but that's not why I'm here. This year 5 states...
  6. Katelyn Baker

    NM: A City Councilor Asked For More "Hard Data" On Marijuana Citations

    A police officer pulls over a woman for speeding and notices the smell of marijuana coming from a portable vaporizer. A man smokes pot in his car, sitting in a movie theater parking lot. She got a warning. He went to jail. Two years after Santa Fe passed an ordinance declaring small...
  7. Katelyn Baker

    Fees, Fines And Regulations - A Guide To The Massachusetts Marijuana Ballot Question

    The Massachusetts ballot question that would legalize recreational marijuana use takes up 10 single-spaced pages in the official state voter guide. In short, Question 4 would allow adults over 21 to sell, buy and use marijuana. But the detailed provisions of the law have already generated...
  8. Katelyn Baker

    Could Medical Marijuana Legalization Help America's Opioid Problem?

    New research conducted by Columbia University's Mailman School for Public Health suggests that the availability of medical marijuana may reduce the use of opioid drugs. The study concluded that fewer people were killed in car accidents who tested positive for opioids (even prescription opioids)...
  9. Katelyn Baker

    Could Medical Marijuana Legalization Help America's Opioid Problem?

    New research conducted by Columbia University's Mailman School for Public Health suggests that the availability of medical marijuana may reduce the use of opioid drugs. The study concluded that fewer people were killed in car accidents who tested positive for opioids (even prescription opioids)...
  10. Katelyn Baker

    AR: The Marijuana Battle Continues - More Court Action Possible

    I'm expecting further legal action today relative to the Arkansas Supreme Court decision to boot Issue 7, the medical marijuana initiative, off the ballot. Backers of the law have already asked for a rehearing. A separate legal action is in process that would seek a court order to require all...
  11. Katelyn Baker

    AR: The Marijuana Battle Continues - More Court Action Possible

    I'm expecting further legal action today relative to the Arkansas Supreme Court decision to boot Issue 7, the medical marijuana initiative, off the ballot. Backers of the law have already asked for a rehearing. A separate legal action is in process that would seek a court order to require all...
  12. Katelyn Baker

    Florida Voters Decide If Medical Marijuana Treatment Should Expand

    The last time Floridians faced the subject of medical marijuana on the ballot, the measure just barely failed to garner enough support needed to become law. This time appears to be different. There's still resistance, but the large wave of criticism from various groups like the Florida...
  13. Katelyn Baker

    Florida Voters Decide If Medical Marijuana Treatment Should Expand

    The last time Floridians faced the subject of medical marijuana on the ballot, the measure just barely failed to garner enough support needed to become law. This time appears to be different. There's still resistance, but the large wave of criticism from various groups like the Florida...
  14. Katelyn Baker

    CA: What Will Madera County Do With Recreational Marijuana?

    Through the latest polls taken by the Field Research Corporation and Public Policy Institute of California, it appears Proposition 64, a much-discussed measure to legalize recreational use of marijuana in California, will pass with 60% support. The measure, if approved Nov. 8, would allow...
  15. Katelyn Baker

    Pot Startups Flying High With California Poised To Legalize Marijuana

    Cannabis connoisseurs won't be the only ones rejoicing if voters legalize recreational marijuana this election. Expect Silicon Valley's burgeoning class of pot entrepreneurs to join the party. Startups are cropping up throughout the Bay Area that put a signature Valley spin on the age-old...
  16. Katelyn Baker

    UT: A Brother's Pain Changes An LDS Family's View Of Medical Marijuana

    Murray - Twin brothers Nathan and Aaron Frodsham grew up in Dallas and later, Utah. One became a data scientist. The other, a doctor who works with cancer patients. Both want medical marijuana, or cannabis, legalized. "It was such a taboo topic," said Nathan Frodsham, who lives in Murray...
  17. Katelyn Baker

    UT: A Brother's Pain Changes An LDS Family's View Of Medical Marijuana

    Murray - Twin brothers Nathan and Aaron Frodsham grew up in Dallas and later, Utah. One became a data scientist. The other, a doctor who works with cancer patients. Both want medical marijuana, or cannabis, legalized. "It was such a taboo topic," said Nathan Frodsham, who lives in Murray...
  18. Katelyn Baker

    NV: How Does Recreational Marijuana Affect Tourism?

    Las Vegas - In the next part of 13 Action News series of reports on marijuana, what sorts of people does recreational marijuana attract to Colorado or potentially Nevada? More police are patrolling in Denver and private security guards were hired with the influx of tourists visiting Colorado...
  19. Katelyn Baker

    CA: San Jose Bans Sales Of Recreational Marijuana Ahead Of Election

    San Jose, Calif. - Recreational marijuana sales are now banned in San Jose, even if California voters pass a ballot measure next week that would make such sales legal across the state. The city council voted to keep recreational marijuana illegal in San Jose, even if it becomes legal in...
  20. Katelyn Baker

    AR: Petitions Law Ends Marijuana Act, Lawyer Argues

    A lawyer in the lawsuit that disqualified the Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act from the ballot asked the Arkansas Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject a request by supporters to reconsider the case. Meanwhile, David Couch, the Little Rock-based lawyer supporting the competing Arkansas Medical...
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