• Cannabis being used in makeup products is on the rise

    Cannabis being used in makeup products is on the rise

    With cannabis becoming legalised in Canada and US state Oklahoma voting to legalise medicinal marijuana recently, there has been much discussion about the health benefits of the plant. Further to its use as an ingredient used to treat various health conditions, cannabis has also recently been having quite a moment within the beauty industry. CBD, the non-psychoactive chemical compound
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  • America’s Stoned Kids: guinea pigs of cannabis legalisation

    America’s Stoned Kids: guinea pigs of cannabis legalisation

    Denver, the setting of this spliffy documentary, is The Mile High City in more ways than one Professor John Marsden. Photograph: Unknown/BBC Marijuana use on TV has been growing like hydroponic plants under fluorescent light and a Baby Bio sprinkler. Back in finger-waggy 1990, we had a preachy one-off spesh called Cartoon All-Stars To The
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  • Alaska, Rhode Island Will Legalize Marijuana Next, Federal Pot Law Will Change In 2019: MPP’s Rob Kampia

    Alaska, Rhode Island Will Legalize Marijuana Next, Federal Pot Law Will Change In 2019: MPP’s Rob Kampia

    As support for marijuana legalization continues to grow, Rob Kampia, the executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, believes that momentum will drive two more states to follow Colorado and Washington in legalizing recreational weed in 2014. In a recent interview with Reason, Kampia made several legal pot predictions. “I think the next state to legalize will
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  • Medical marijuana operators don’t fear possible shut down

    Medical marijuana operators don’t fear possible shut down

    PHOENIX (CBS5) – The legal battle over medical marijuana in Arizona is heating up again. Just a day after Arizona’s Department of Health Services selected nearly 100 dispensaries around the state, a dark cloud hovers over the program. Additional court challenges are expected which could delay, or even stop the dispensaries from opening for business. In
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  • Where there’s smoke there’s fire: Israel’s medical marijuana debate heats up

    Where there’s smoke there’s fire: Israel’s medical marijuana debate heats up

    Medical marijuana buds being packaged in Israel. Debate over medical cannabis gains momentum as Knesset Health Committee approves 11 more doctors to prescribe drug; Health Minister German under attack. The debate over medical marijuana use in Israel has gained momentum in recent weeks, as evidenced by the vociferous attacks on Health Minister Yael German’s Facebook
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  • Marijuana cannon: Mexican police confiscate improvised border drug cannon

    Marijuana cannon: Mexican police confiscate improvised border drug cannon

    By Associated Press / February 28, 2013 In this image released by the Mexicali Public Safety Department, a man holds up an improvised cannon that was confiscated earlier in the day in Mexicali, Mexico, Feb. 26. Police in the border city say the cannon was used to hurl packets of marijuana across a border fence
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  • Israel pushing ahead in medical marijuana industry

    Israel pushing ahead in medical marijuana industry

    MOSHE RUTE SURVIVED the Holocaust by hiding in a barn full of chickens. He nearly lost the use of his hands after a stroke two years ago, and became debilitated by recurring nightmares of his childhood following his wife’s death last year. “But after I found this, everything has been better,” said the 80-year-old, as
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  • Feds Propose Taxing Marijuana, True Cash Crop

    Feds Propose Taxing Marijuana, True Cash Crop

    With all the upheaval in Washington, it isn’t likely that federal proposals to tax marijuana will pass anytime soon. Yet as Professor Paul Caron catalogs, economists are looking anew at the proposed Marijuana Tax Equity Act (H.R. 501). It would end the federal prohibition on marijuana and allow it to be taxed. Growers, sellers and users would not to fear violating federal
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  • Uruguay Understands You Can’t Tax Legal Weed If You Want to Undercut Black Market

    Uruguay Understands You Can’t Tax Legal Weed If You Want to Undercut Black Market

    Uruguay is the first nation in the world that’s embarked on the project of legalized and regulated marijuana. In many respects, Uruguay’s legal marijuana market is more tightly controlled than those emerging in Colorado and Washington. The government, for example, will be a primary distributor of the product, and all users will have to register with it.
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  • King of Reggae, Bob Marley lives on…

    King of Reggae, Bob Marley lives on…

    By Uduma Kalu The reggae world last Wednesday, celebrated the 68th birthday of King of Reggae, Bob Marley whose real names were Nesta Robert Marley.  Born February 6, 1945, in a small village in St Ann called Nine Mile, in Jamaica. Across the globe, Marley’s birthday resonate with his music being played in radio and
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  • Colorado becomes world’s first legal, fully regulated market for recreational marijuana

    Colorado becomes world’s first legal, fully regulated market for recreational marijuana

    Call it the mile-high state. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper made history Tuesday, signing two bills that make his state the first place in the world to fully regulate the recreational use of marijuana for adults. Flanked by legislators and pot legalization activists at the Colorado State Capitol, Hickenlooper signed two bills that lay out the framework
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  • Parents ask Kansas lawmakers to legalize cannabis oil

    Parents ask Kansas lawmakers to legalize cannabis oil

    TOPEKA, Kan. —Parents have appealed to Kansas lawmakers in an effort to legalize cannabis oil for certain types of medical conditions. Tracy Robles, a mother who lives near Wichita, said her daughter suffers from violent seizures every day. She said the family must decide whether to move to Colorado, where marijuana is legal, in an
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  • Frankie got around smoking law; now he offers private pot spot

    Frankie got around smoking law; now he offers private pot spot

    By JOHN M. GLIONNA — Los Angeles Times Olympia tavern owner Frankie Schnarr takes a long draw from his bottle of Coors Light and scans his sports bar, listening to billiard balls rattle and a pinball machine explode with points. Cassie Hickam smokes marijuana at Frankie’s Sports Bar and Grill in Olympia. State law makes it
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  • Cannabis factory raided in Farncombe

    Cannabis factory raided in Farncombe

    A CANNABIS factory in Farncombe was raided by police, who found 210 plants growing, after reports from suspicious neighbours. The rented house in Farncombe Street was empty at the time of the raid on August 10 and officers are searching for the tenants, a couple believed to be Vietnamese who have had the property since
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  • Federal government eases stance on marijuana

    Federal government eases stance on marijuana

    By Joe Mozingo, Ari Bloomekatz and David G. SavageAugust 29, 2013, 7:25 p.m. In a significant policy shift by the Obama administration, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. signaled Thursday that the federal government would no longer interfere in states that allowed commercial marijuana sales as long as they were strictly regulated. The move comes two years after
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  • Cyrus takes aim at marijuana image

    Cyrus takes aim at marijuana image

    Singer and actress Miley Cyrus has distanced herself from a photograph that shows her smoking what appears to be marijuana joint. An image seemingly showing the former Disney star surrounded by smoke accompanied by the caption “High as [expletive]” was posted by a user called “Mileyxxcyrus” on photo-sharing website Instagram on Tuesday. The snap was
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  • Some Wash. police dogs not smelling pot anymore

    Some Wash. police dogs not smelling pot anymore

    In this photo taken Thursday, May 30, 2013, drug-sniffing police dog Dusty is rewarded by handler Officer Duke Roessel with a toy after the K-9 successfully located a stash of heroin during a training session at the police station in Bremerton, Wash. The newest drug-sniffing dog on the police force in Bremerton, near Seattle, is
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  • Congresswoman Barbara Lee Sponsors Legislation

    Congresswoman Barbara Lee Sponsors Legislation

    California Rep. Barbara Lee won’t be spooked by the Justice Department’s aggressive curtailing of medical marijuana dispensaries in her own backyard. Lee, a top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, introduced the States’ Medical Marijuana Property Rights Protection Act in Congress this week, which she says would curb the Obama Administration’s efforts to intimidate state
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  • In Washington and Colorado, the Real Fight Will Come Down to Marijuana Businesses

    In Washington and Colorado, the Real Fight Will Come Down to Marijuana Businesses

    Nearly 10 months after Colorado and Washington state legalized the use and sale of recreational marijuana, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy announced Monday that he’s invited Attorney General Eric Holder and Deputy Attorney General James Cole to testify at a September 10 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Specifically, Leahy wants Holder and Cole to answer questions about “whether it is
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  • American Cannabis Giant Curaleaf Stumbles In Public Trading Debut

    American Cannabis Giant Curaleaf Stumbles In Public Trading Debut

    Curaleaf Inc. products are displayed for sale at the company’s store in the Queens borough of New York, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. Curaleaf, a Massachusetts-based company backed by Moscow banking veteran Boris Jordan with roughly 30 pot stores open in 12 states, is raising $350 million through a private placement that values the
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  • Despite rulings in Colorado, Washington, medical marijuana still a legal risk in Arizona

    Despite rulings in Colorado, Washington, medical marijuana still a legal risk in Arizona

    PHOENIX — A decision Thursday by U.S. Department of Justice not to challenge marijuana legalization by two states does not make Arizona’s own medical marijuana law any more legal or acceptable, key prosecutors said. Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said he will not drop his bid to have the state’s 2010 voter-approved law declared illegal.
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  • Medical pot laws & treats may send more kids to ER

    Medical pot laws & treats may send more kids to ER

    View PhotoAssociated Press – FILE – This Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 file photo shows a medical marijuana plant at a dispensary in Seattle. Increased use of medical marijuana may lead to more young children getting sick …more      CHICAGO (AP) — Increased use of medical marijuana may lead to more young children getting sick from accidentally eating food made
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  • Man jailed for 10 years over €240,000 of cannabis

    Man jailed for 10 years over €240,000 of cannabis

    Man jailed for 10 years over €240,000 of cannabis Denis Flynn had denied having 20kg of cannabis for sale or supply at Harringtons Square, Dillons Cross in Cork on December 22nd, 2011. A 44-year-old man has been jailed for 10 years after he was convicted by a jury of possessing €240,000 worth of drugs at
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