• Marijuana investors commit more than $1 million after Denver meeting

    Marijuana investors commit more than $1 million after Denver meeting

    A Denver meeting of a marijuana industry investment group resulted in more than $1 million in new money being pumped into cannabis businesses, the group announced Wednesday. Troy Dayton, the CEO of The ArcView Group, said members of the group’s investor network are still sealing deals after Tuesday’s meeting at the Denver Athletic Club, but he
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  • Marijuana legalization group makes bid to air Super Bowl commercial

    Marijuana legalization group makes bid to air Super Bowl commercial

    DMITRIY NOROV/GETTY IMAGES The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is hoping it can win a contest sponsored by Intuit to have its pro-legalization ad aired during the Super Bowl XLVIII. If they don’t know already, Americas could soon find out whether marijuana and the Super Bowl mix. A pro-pot group has been
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  • For Marijuana Entrepreneurs, Sticky Red Tape Remains in Colorado

    For Marijuana Entrepreneurs, Sticky Red Tape Remains in Colorado

    Photograph by Matthew Staver/The New York Times via Redux A 60-acre field of hemp in Springfield, Colo., which draws no distinction between hemp and marijuana Once a quarter for the past two years, the ArcView Angel Investor Network plays matchmaker between individuals curious about investing in the newly legal marijuana market and pot entrepreneurs who
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  • Prominent Mexicans urge government to decriminalize marijuana

    Prominent Mexicans urge government to decriminalize marijuana

    A broad spectrum of prominent Mexicans, including former ministers, businessmen, artists and a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, on Wednesday urged the government to decriminalize marijuana in a bid to curb gang violence and corruption. Since 2007, about 80,000 people have been killed in turf wars between drug cartels and their clashes with security forces, leading to
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  • Marijuana Legalization: NYC’s Next Mayor Will Try to Legalize Weed

    Marijuana Legalization: NYC’s Next Mayor Will Try to Legalize Weed

    Marijuana Legalization: NYC’s Next Mayor Will Try to Legalize Weed © Flickr (North Cascades National Park) The next mayor of New York City will help usher in the decriminalization of marijuana, regardless of which candidate wins the seat. Mayoral aspirants Bill de Blasio and Joseph Lhota, who were selected as nominees to represent their respective
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  • 22 medical marijuana applicants weeded out by Massachusetts Department of Public Health

    22 medical marijuana applicants weeded out by Massachusetts Department of Public Health

    BOSTON — A total of 22 applicants formedical marijuana dispensaries were eliminated on Monday from competition by the state Department of Public Health. The process now leaves 158 applicants for dispensary licenses for medical marijuana, down from 181 initial applicants. In addition to the 22 eliminated by the state, one company withdrew. A total of 22 applicants failed
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  • Maine medical marijuana users fear loss of subsidized housing

    Maine medical marijuana users fear loss of subsidized housing

    ED ANDRIESKI Marijuana plants flourish under the lights at a grow house. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) PORTLAND — Some medical marijuana patients may have to choose between their cannabis and their federally subsidized housing if a state moratorium is not renewed before its Oct. 1 deadline. While state housing officials say it’s unlikely the deadline will
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  • Rabbi Ties Jewish Faith to Medical Marijuana

    Rabbi Ties Jewish Faith to Medical Marijuana

    Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn spent his 30-year career educating others and helping to ease human suffering, leading Jewish congregations in Australia, Illinois, his hometown of Miami and New Jersey. Now, he is practicing his faith in a different line of work: Kahn runs a dispensary for medical marijuana. Call it a mitzvah — or one of God’s commandments.
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  • Medical marijuana sprouts in Israel

    Medical marijuana sprouts in Israel

      Mimi Peleg’s job is to teach people how to use pot—how long to inhale smoke or vapor, how to administer sublingual drops, or how to ration out a pot cookie. Peleg directs large-scale cannabis training for the Israeli government’s state-run, discreet, successful and expanding medical cannabis distribution center, MECHKAR. MECHKAR began as a tiny
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  • Feds seek to legalize marijuana industry banking

    Feds seek to legalize marijuana industry banking

    WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department and federal banking regulators will help clear the way for financial institutions to transact business with the legitimate marijuana industry without fear of prosecution, Deputy Attorney General James Cole told Congress on Tuesday. The issue has taken on greater urgency now that Colorado and Washington have become the first
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  • Marijuana: OK to sell. But no banking for the businesses?

    Marijuana: OK to sell. But no banking for the businesses?

    It might be OK with the feds for Washington and Colorado to grow and sell marijuana within their borders. But borrowing and saving money to grow and sell pot amount to something else. The feds still have laws against money laundering and racketeering — meaning drug money cannot legally go into, come out of or stay within banks.
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  • Feds in Talks With Banks Over Dealing With Marijuana Business

    Feds in Talks With Banks Over Dealing With Marijuana Business

    The government is in talks with bank regulators to see whether financial institutions in states that have approved recreational marijuana use can do business with drug dispensaries there, a top Justice Department official said Tuesday. The announcement came nearly two weeks after the Justice Department decided it won’t take legal action against Colorado and Washington,
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  • DOJ: States won’t get pass on pot laws

    DOJ: States won’t get pass on pot laws

    WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s decision not to challenge marijuana laws passed by 21 states and the District of Columbia doesn’t mean those jurisdictions have escaped federal scrutiny entirely, a Justice Department official said Tuesday. Deputy Attorney General James Cole told the Senate Judiciary Committee the administration is monitoring the states, including California and Oregon, and
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  • Denver police defend stand down at pot giveaway

    Denver police defend stand down at pot giveaway

    DENVER — Denver police are defending their decision to stand down while dozens of people lit up marijuana cigarettes at a free pot giveaway in Civic Center park. Deputy Chief David Quinones tells the Denver Post (http://tinyurl.com/nhfmoc7) the department didn’t want to incite a riot Monday over a petty offense. Hundreds of people lined up to
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  • Congress Holding Hearing On Justice Department’s Marijuana Decision

    Congress Holding Hearing On Justice Department’s Marijuana Decision

    WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is facing criticism over its attempt to straddle the federal law that makes marijuana illegal and state laws that permit recreational use of the drug. In the first congressional hearing since the administration announced a new, permissive enforcement policy, law enforcement and drug-prevention groups and their congressional allies see an
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  • Inslee to meet with US attorneys about legal pot

    Inslee to meet with US attorneys about legal pot

    OLYMPIA, Wash.  — Gov. Jay Inslee is set to meet Tuesday with the two top federal prosecutors in Washington to discuss the Justice Department’s concerns about the state’s legal marijuana law. U.S. Attorneys Jenny Durkan of Seattle and Mike Ormsby of Spokane are traveling to Olympia to speak with Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
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  • Marijuana Activist May Run for Political Office

    Marijuana Activist May Run for Political Office

    Small acts of defiance have sometimes sparked political infernos. December 1955: seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of the bus and touches off the Montgomery bus boycott. August 1980: electrician Lech Walesa hops a fence at the Gdansk shipyards and goes on to lead a strike that opens a crack that spreads
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  • Puerto Rico to Debate Medical Marijuana Legalization

    Puerto Rico to Debate Medical Marijuana Legalization

    SAN JUAN, PR — Legislators in Puerto Rico are preparing to debate a bill that would allow people to use marijuana for medicinal purposes in this conservative U.S. territory, officials said Thursday. The measure would create a system to legally produce the substance and allow state health officials to regulate it, said Rep. Jose Baez,
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  • Washington State issues how-to regs on growing, selling marijuana

    Washington State issues how-to regs on growing, selling marijuana

    With the eyes of other states – and the US Justice Department – upon them, officials in Washington State have issued draft regulations for growing, distributing, and selling marijuana meant for recreational use. The details announced this week include the number of shops that will be able to sell pot around the state (334, with locations based
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  • Jamaica Marijuana Tours Lead Visitors Through Island’s Hidden Pot Plantations

    Jamaica Marijuana Tours Lead Visitors Through Island’s Hidden Pot Plantations

    NINE MILE, Jamaica — Napa and Sonoma have their wine tours, and travelers flock to Scotland to sample the fine single malt whiskies. But in Jamaica, farmers are offering a different kind of trip for a different type of connoisseur. Call them ganja tours: smoky, mystical – and technically illegal – journeys to some of
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