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Nearly a year ago, voters in the city and county of Pueblo rejected efforts to roll back retail marijuana sales by margins greater than the vote to establish them in the first place. After a heated campaign, the decisive defeat of Propositions 200 and 300 sent a message that Pueblo voters were...

Juneau – The Juneau-Douglas City Museum accepted a donation of one gram of marijuana purchased from Rainforest Farms, the first smoke shop to open in Juneau. The donation was made by former Capital City Weekly editor and current Juneau Empire state reporter James Brooks. Brooks purchased the...

Montevideo - Marijuana-friendly Uruguay will soon have a museum dedicated to pot. "It is a way to connect people who love nature, art and science," said the director of the museum, Eduardo Blasina. The museum, opening Friday in Montevideo, will help people learn more about one of the world's...

Pueblo could be home to what would be called The National Marijuana Museum. Following the defeat of Propositions 200 and 300 and a lengthy campaign against them and other anti-marijuana industry ballot issues, a citizen-organized group has announced plans to build The National Marijuana Museum...

The "No on 200" team in Pueblo County has proposed that Colorado become home to the National Marijuana Museum, and what better county to host it than the one that fought against repealing Amendment 64 at the ballot box this election. The organizers hope to have the museum open by the summer of...

While walking through the Field Museum of Natural History's psychoactive and medical plants exhibit in Chicago last year, it struck Eureka resident Kenny Gregg as odd that a marijuana plant was tucked far in the back, almost as an afterthought. "I was looking at that and thinking that maybe...

Located in the heart of Barcelona's Ciutat Vella ("Old City"), the Gothic Quarter features an abundance of stately buildings, from stately ancient and medieval structures to modernist masterpieces. Included among the latter is the Palau Mornau, a grand Renaissance-cum-modernist structure that...

On the face of it, marijuana would seem an odd candidate for a museum exhibit. It's illegal in most of the country, its past is controversial and its future is uncertain. Yet one museum has mounted a comprehensive exhibit about weed. Altered State: Marijuana in California, which opened last...