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  1. Katelyn Baker

    FL: Medical Marijuana Amendment Is About Compassion

    For 45 years, the Epilepsy Foundation of Florida has been on a mission to accelerate therapies that stop seizures, find cures and save lives. With 400,000 Floridians living with epilepsy, we've had a lot of work to do. One of our guiding principles is our commitment to physician directed...
  2. Katelyn Baker

    Some Lawmakers Hope CT Will Consider Legalizing Marijuana

    New Haven, CT — While Massachusetts voters will decide on Election Day whether to legalize marijuana in the state, some Connecticut officials say their state is ready to decide, CT News Junkie reported. New Haven Democratic Rep. Juan Candelaria said polls show a majority of Connecticut...
  3. Katelyn Baker

    WA: Punch The Clock And Pass The Brownies

    Washington - After getting busted himself, Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes says it's time for Americans to have an "overdue conversation" about marijuana in the workplace. On July 8, 2014, the first day that retail stores began selling marijuana in Washington state, Holmes went to Cannabis...
  4. Katelyn Baker

    WA: Marijuana Farmers, Including Spokane City Council Member, Hinge Hopes On Harvest

    An autumn chill settled over the marijuana farm near Spangle jointly owned by City Councilwoman Karen Stratton and her husband, Chris Wright. The outdoor thermometer read 42 degrees. Four twentysomethings the family hired to trim the plants shuffled through a key-activated gate while captured...
  5. Katelyn Baker

    Maine Needs Rational Pot Policy, So Vote 'Yes' On Question 1

    Sometimes it's the leaders who need leadership. For decades, politicians have been clinging to outdated ideas about drug policy because they didn't want to appear soft on crime. We support the citizen-initiated Question 1, an act to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol, because it would...
  6. Katelyn Baker

    It's High Time The U.S. Cloned Canada's Medical Pot Model

    America's presidential candidates have been conspicuously cagey about the status of federal medical marijuana legalization during this campaign season, suggesting that state officials are in for at least another four years of slapdash lawmaking and enforcing. In Canada, however, getting medical...
  7. Katelyn Baker

    It's High Time The U.S. Cloned Canada's Medical Pot Model

    America's presidential candidates have been conspicuously cagey about the status of federal medical marijuana legalization during this campaign season, suggesting that state officials are in for at least another four years of slapdash lawmaking and enforcing. In Canada, however, getting medical...
  8. Katelyn Baker

    California Readies Landmark Water Rules For Cannabis Cultivators

    California is preparing landmark water regulations for the state's marijuana growers to safeguard the environment and encourage water conservation and storage. The California Department of Food and Agriculture is drafting the water-use rules, which are expected to increase growers' paperwork...
  9. Katelyn Baker

    WA: Rural Towns See Pot Farming In Their Future

    In rural Klickitat County in southwestern Washington state, a trio of thriving farms point the way toward a better future for an area where the economy has struggled over the years, in part due to the shuttering of a local aluminum smelting plant. But those farms don't grow wheat, wine grapes...
  10. Katelyn Baker

    NJ Lawmakers See No Problems With Legalized Pot

    Trenton - Fresh from a fact-finding expedition to see Colorado's marijuana industry, none of the eight New Jersey lawmakers who went had a negative word about pot legalization for reporters at a standing-room-only news conference Thursday. "The sky hasn't fallen," State Sen. Nicolas Scutari...
  11. Katelyn Baker

    Sean Parker, Pushing Pot Legalization, Invisible In California Campaign

    Sean Parker, the billionaire tech tycoon who has helped push California to the precipice of legalizing marijuana, isn't talking. Parker, founding president of Facebook and co-founder of the file-sharing service Napster, has contributed $7.3 million toward the Proposition 64 legalization...
  12. Katelyn Baker

    Arkansas Medical Marijuana Proponents Launch TV Ad

    Little Rock, Ark. - Supporters of a medical marijuana proposal in Arkansas have launched a television ad touting the November ballot measure as a way to help children with seizures. Informing Arkansas on Friday began airing the ad for the proposed constitutional amendment, which would allow...
  13. Katelyn Baker

    Arkansas Medical Marijuana Proponents Launch TV Ad

    Little Rock, Ark. - Supporters of a medical marijuana proposal in Arkansas have launched a television ad touting the November ballot measure as a way to help children with seizures. Informing Arkansas on Friday began airing the ad for the proposed constitutional amendment, which would allow...
  14. Katelyn Baker

    Marijuana Legalization In Uruguay - Progress And Challenges Three Years Later

    In December 2013, the Uruguayan Chamber of Senators approved Law 19.172, through which the General Assembly regulated the production, marketing and possession of marijuana in Uruguay. According to the Scientific Advisory Committee for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Policy for the Regulation...
  15. Katelyn Baker

    AR: The Push For Medical Marijuana Begins

    Advertising has begun for Issue 6, the constitutional amendment to allow sale of medically prescribed marijuana through for-profit dispensaries regulated by the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Division. Issue 7, the initiated act to allow medical marijuana distributed through non-profit...
  16. Katelyn Baker

    AR: The Push For Medical Marijuana Begins

    Advertising has begun for Issue 6, the constitutional amendment to allow sale of medically prescribed marijuana through for-profit dispensaries regulated by the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Division. Issue 7, the initiated act to allow medical marijuana distributed through non-profit...
  17. Katelyn Baker

    Here Are The Bizarre Reasons The FDA Refuses To Say Marijuana Is Medicine

    With a handful of states slated to vote on either medical or full marijuana legalization this November, the pressure is on for the federal government to perhaps reassess its dated policies on the drug. After all, there's no shortage of evidence the legal and cultural stigmas attached to the drug...
  18. Katelyn Baker

    Here Are The Bizarre Reasons The FDA Refuses To Say Marijuana Is Medicine

    With a handful of states slated to vote on either medical or full marijuana legalization this November, the pressure is on for the federal government to perhaps reassess its dated policies on the drug. After all, there's no shortage of evidence the legal and cultural stigmas attached to the drug...
  19. Katelyn Baker

    MA: North Attleboro Selectmen Approve Letter Of Support For Medical Marijuana Grower

    North Attleboro - Reversing an earlier decision to table a letter of support for a prospective medical marijuana growing facility until a public hearing could be held, selectmen voted Thursday night in favor of the letter amid concerns the landscape might shift after the Nov. 8 general election...
  20. Katelyn Baker

    MA: North Attleboro Selectmen Approve Letter Of Support For Medical Marijuana Grower

    North Attleboro - Reversing an earlier decision to table a letter of support for a prospective medical marijuana growing facility until a public hearing could be held, selectmen voted Thursday night in favor of the letter amid concerns the landscape might shift after the Nov. 8 general election...
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