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    Brea Officials Plan To Ban Growing And Delivering Pot

    Weed, for the most part, is not welcome in the city of Brea. The city recently passed a 45-day ban on medical marijuana, meaning it cannot be delivered to the city, grown in the city or dispensed in the city. Staffers plan to come back with a permanent ban. The law is in reaction to...
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    Manitoba: Driving High Not Enough For Conviction

    He admits smoking up before getting behind the wheel and feeling a bit "tipsy" as a result. But one of the first "driving while impaired by drug" cases in Manitoba has ended with the accused going free because a judge says it's not clear whether the accused's marijuana use had any significant...
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    California: New Bans Don't Faze Medical Pot Advocates

    As cities across Orange County rush to ban marijuana cultivation and delivery before the state assumes the power to decide for them, people in the pot industry see it not as a roadblock to growing hopes, but as a placeholder. Cities have been taking legislative action because Assembly Bill...
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    California: New Bans Don't Faze Medical Pot Advocates

    As cities across Orange County rush to ban marijuana cultivation and delivery before the state assumes the power to decide for them, people in the pot industry see it not as a roadblock to growing hopes, but as a placeholder. Cities have been taking legislative action because Assembly Bill...
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    Canadians With Marijuana Convictions Call On Trudeau To Offer Pardons

    Marcus Richardson is, in the eyes of the law, a criminal. Never mind that a judge ruled the six kilograms of cannabis police found in his car was for severely ill patients at a medical marijuana dispensary. Or that the same judge imposed only a minimum sentence because anything more would...
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    Australia: Protest Calls For Rethink On Drug-Driving Laws

    As yet another 50 people charged with drug driving clogged up the Lismore Local Court list yesterday, a band of protesters gathered outside the courthouse to vent their disapproval at the roadside testing regime. Originally set to be held in front of the police station, the protest was moved...
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    Kentucky: State Senator Pushing Marijuana Legalization

    A state senator from Louisville wants to legalize marijuana in Kentucky, but a key committee chair says the bill likely won't get an opportunity to advance in the upcoming General Assembly session. The "Cannabis Freedom Act" creates a regulatory framework to grow, distribute and consume...
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    Missouri: Tragedy Influences Columbia College Student's Career Choice

    When Columbia College senior Sammi Macht was a child, her friend and his father were murdered in her hometown of Waseca, Minn. "That destroyed me as a seventh-grader, and it destroyed our community," Macht said. "It takes away all of your safety and your confidence in the world." Michael...
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    Oklahoma: Gathering Signatures In Hopes Of Getting Medical Marijuana Issue On Ballot

    Green the Vote has been gathering signatures for a petition in the Sand Springs area and across the state to add an article to the Oklahoma Constitution to allow marijuana use if prescribed by a doctor. The measure would allow licensed growers to sell marijuana to licensed dispensaries and...
  10. Jacob Redmond

    Oklahoma: Gathering Signatures In Hopes Of Getting Medical Marijuana Issue On Ballot

    Green the Vote has been gathering signatures for a petition in the Sand Springs area and across the state to add an article to the Oklahoma Constitution to allow marijuana use if prescribed by a doctor. The measure would allow licensed growers to sell marijuana to licensed dispensaries and...
  11. Jacob Redmond

    Epilepsy Patients Set To Get Medical Marijuana In Texas

    The Texas Public Safety Commission has approved new rules regulating the distribution of medical cannabis oil to epilepsy patients. Families waiting for dispensaries to open in the state praised the move. It's another Christmas for Terri Carriker and her children, including 13-year-old...
  12. Jacob Redmond

    Epilepsy Patients Set To Get Medical Marijuana In Texas

    The Texas Public Safety Commission has approved new rules regulating the distribution of medical cannabis oil to epilepsy patients. Families waiting for dispensaries to open in the state praised the move. It's another Christmas for Terri Carriker and her children, including 13-year-old...
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    Canada: Clear Regulations Needed For Medical, Recreational Marijuana

    Ontario is looking for federal government guidance on regulating clinics that sell medical marijuana and on how pot should be sold for recreational use once it's legalized. The federal Liberals promised in this month's throne speech to "legalize, regulate and restrict access to marijuana" to...
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    Canada: Clear Regulations Needed For Medical, Recreational Marijuana

    Ontario is looking for federal government guidance on regulating clinics that sell medical marijuana and on how pot should be sold for recreational use once it's legalized. The federal Liberals promised in this month's throne speech to "legalize, regulate and restrict access to marijuana" to...
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    Illinois: Medical Marijuana Program Chief Hails Start

    The man in charge of Illinois' Medical Cannabis Pilot Program said it's running smoothly. Program director Joseph Wright did, however, point to a few "technical glitches" that have delayed some patients receiving their photo ID cards. which they need to obtain cannabis. "And we've tried to...
  16. Jacob Redmond

    Illinois: Medical Marijuana Program Chief Hails Start

    The man in charge of Illinois' Medical Cannabis Pilot Program said it's running smoothly. Program director Joseph Wright did, however, point to a few "technical glitches" that have delayed some patients receiving their photo ID cards. which they need to obtain cannabis. "And we've tried to...
  17. Jacob Redmond

    Industrial Hemp Takes Root In Kentucky

    Tucked away off a narrow country road in Clark County, in the middle of a farm, 27 acres of hemp grew all summer. Now, the plants will be harvested and processed. Kentucky, hailed as a leader by industrial hemp advocates, has grown the hemp. Now the state is working on growing the industry...
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    Archaic Regulations Threaten Canada's Hemp Industry

    Canada has been a leader in hemp production and its utilization since production was legalized in 1997, but now it risks being supplanted by the United States because of archaic Canadian laws, Kim Shukla, executive director of the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CHTA) says. "We have a...
  19. Jacob Redmond

    Figuring Out How To Build A Really Big Marijuana Business

    With an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School and entrepreneurial success already under his belt, British-born Tim Moxey saw the cannabusiness tidal wave coming to Washington state and thought, “Why not me?” Now he’s got 35 employees at Botanica Seattle making pot-infused cookies, chocolates, mints...
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    Colorado: Cannabis Tours, Bud Hotels Popular With Visitors

    At the Bud+Breakfast at the Adagio, which bills itself as a cannabis-friendly lodge, visitors to Colorado looking to get a whiff of the local weed scene can wake up to the smell of pot wafting through the foyer and dining rooms of what have become known as "bud-and-breakfasts." Mornings begin...
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