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    In Colorado, A Look At Life After Marijuana Legalization

    Nestled between a 7-Eleven and a store selling Broncos jerseys, the door to the generic-looking retail establishment is easy to miss. But once inside, the smell is unmistakable. At Euflora, tables are filled with glass containers of marijuana next to interactive tablets describing each strain...
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    Recalls, Medical Marijuana Take Center Stage In Upland, CA

    In the span of almost a year the city has faced two efforts to overturn the ban on medical marijuana dispensaries, and if that's not enough, four separate efforts were initiated to recall all but one member of the council. The level of activity is highly unusual says a University of La Verne...
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    Tacoma Innovators Bring Skills To State Medical Marijuana Registry

    A small Tacoma software firm is racing the clock to complete a computerized registry form for medical marijuana users. Innovator cloudPWR was awarded the five-year, $2.4 million contract from the Department of Health in November, beating out two East Coast competitors, MicroPact and CITI...
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    Retired Las Vegas Police Officer Has New Job With Marijuana

    Dave Kallas spent over two decades busting drug dealers on the streets of Las Vegas. On Saturday, he became a dealer himself – a legal one – when his medical marijuana dispensary The Apothecarium, 7885 W. Sahara Ave., officially opened for business. Kallas, 60, and his business partner...
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    'Follow The Money:' Cache Legislators Discuss Funding, Budgets, Medical Marijuana

    With the Utah State Legislature past the halfway mark of its session, Cache County's legislators held to a common theme in their reports at the weekly constituent meeting Saturday morning: money. "One thing I've always said when you're looking at who's supporting what issue is to follow the...
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    Ark. Professor Explains Legal Difference Of 2016 Push To Legalize Medical Marijuana

    On Wednesday (Feb. 17), Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge approved the popular name of an amendment that would legalize medical marijuana. University of Arkansas law professor Jon Marshfield said the approved description of the proposed amendment would be available to voters if the...
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    Arkansas Mom Fights To Legalize Medical Marijuana

    A family in Greenbrier is saying that if the medical marijuana ballot measure passes, their lives could be changed forever. Supporters claim that medical marijuana would help ease the pain for sick patients with debilitating conditions. Preslee, 4, is one of those patients. She deals with...
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    CA: Windsor Opts To Keep Medical Marijuana Ban In Place

    Windsor is going to keep its ban on medical marijuana cultivation and dispensaries, for now, but council members remain open to the possibility of allowing commercial pot gardens in designated zones in the future. With California finally implementing a framework to regulate medical marijuana...
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    Massachusetts' Sixth Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens

    Massachusetts' sixth medical marijuana dispensary opened in Lowell Tuesday, according to the Patriot Care medical marijuana dispensary website. Patriot Care has dispensaries scheduled to open in Boston and Greenfield later this year. While residents in the City of Boston are still waiting for...
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    Connecticut: Cornered, Committee Will Have To Approve Expansion Of Medical Cannabis

    A key legislative committee has a dilemma. It has to approve legislation that some members vehemently oppose. More than a year after Consumer Protection Commissioner Jonathan Harris confirmed the first of several new ailments to qualify for the state's medical-marijuana program, lawmakers...
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    Vanderbilt University Hosts Medical Marijuana Symposium

    The medical marijuana debate continues in Tennessee. More than 75 people packed a cannabis symposium at Vanderbilt University Thursday night. Debra Beckman was one of them. She has been battling cancer for three years. Beckman said a sample of cannabis oil during a trip to California that...
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    Medical Marijuana On The Ballot Could Change Political Power In Utah

    Medical marijuana appearing on the November ballot could have an impact on the Utah State Legislature, flipping some districts from Republican to Democrat. In other states, marijuana initiatives have historically driven younger, often more liberal voters to the polls. It may not be enough to...
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    New York's Medical Marijuana Industry Is Lighting Up Slowly

    What exactly is a medical marijuana dispensary? On a recent tour of one, inside a converted Casual Male XL store next to the Queens Mall, Ari Hoffnung tried to make clear what a dispensary wasn't. "When you walk in here, you don't hear any Bob Marley music playing," he said. "We don't...
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    Hawaii Has Yet To Choose Panel In Charge Of Selecting Medical Marijuana Licensees

    Hawaii has less than two months before licenses are supposed to be awarded for medical marijuana dispensaries. But the state still has not chosen a panel to make those decisions. The health department is in charge of selecting the panel members who will sift through 66 accepted applications...
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    Panel Votes To Allow Limited Use Of Medical Marijuana In Iowa

    A committee in the Iowa House has voted to legalize the limited growth of marijuana in Iowa for distribution as medicine to treat three conditions: epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and end-stage cancer. It's a scaled back version of legislation that was considered in the Iowa Senate last year...
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    UT: Signature Gathering For Ballot Initiative On MMJ Could Start This Weekend

    A ballot initiative to bring medical marijuana to Utah could begin this weekend, with backers announcing an ambitious plan to gather signatures. At a news conference Tuesday, supporters of Sen. Mark Madsen's SB73 said they were anticipating the bill would fail in the Utah State Legislature...
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    AZ: Mesa's Townsend Backs Away From Medical Marijuana Proposal

    Rep. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa, said Tuesday she is scrapping her legislation which would have made it a crime for a woman who is pregnant to possess the medical marijuana. HB 2061 would have overruled any finding by her doctor that the use of marijuana is appropriate. Townsend said the...
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    Enforcement Issues Slow Sutter County Medical Marijuana Ordinance

    A proposed urgency ordinance that would significantly tighten restrictions on growing medical marijuana in Sutter County failed to pass a Board of Supervisors vote amid concerns that it lacked any methods of enforcement. Before a standing-room-only audience Tuesday night, the board heard 31...
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    MA: Medical Marijuana Facility Opens In Former Brookline Bank Building

    The controversial medical marijuana dispensary opened at the corner of Washington Street and Route 9 in the old Brookline Bank building Feb. 6, with little fanfare. With a parking attendant and a Brookline police officer standing by, patients with appointments began trickling into the...
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    CT: Some Area Lawmakers Support Medical Marijuana For Children

    Several lawmakers say they would support legislation allowing children to participate in the state’s medical marijuana program, a measure that could be reintroduced this year. The state made medical marijuana legal in 2012. To qualify, a patient must be 18 or older. Last year, the state...
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