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  • 7 Other Thought Leaders Who Have Smoked Pot

    7 Other Thought Leaders Who Have Smoked Pot

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    David Brooks lit up the Internet today (sorry) with his column on marijuana legalization, “Weed: Been There. Done That,” in which he admits to once being young. “For a little while in my teenage years, my friends and I smoked marijuana. It was fun,” he wrote. “I have some fond memories of us all being silly together.
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  • Carl Sagan Also Smoked Pot Decades Ago. Here’s What He Had To Say About It.

    Carl Sagan Also Smoked Pot Decades Ago. Here’s What He Had To Say About It.

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    Editor’s note: This story was originally published in May 2013. Carl Sagan, a titan of scientific study and communication, died in 1996, leaving behind an expansive legacy of research and education. He assumed a diverse set of roles throughout his life, including as a longtime casual user of and advocate for marijuana. Sagan’s involvement with
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  • Capitalism and marijuana meet in Telluride

    Capitalism and marijuana meet in Telluride

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    Local dispensaries see high volume sales, lines out the door By Collin McRann Staff reporter Published: Thursday, January 2, 2014 6:06 AM CST The lines were long outside of Telluride dispensaries on Wednesday as hundreds queued up in the cold to buy legal marijuana for the first time. Thousands of dollars changed hands, smoke filled private
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  • California Marijuana Cultivation Ban Is Being Challenged

    California Marijuana Cultivation Ban Is Being Challenged

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    This is Colorado’s week in the sun (or, if you’re standing in line to buy legal adult-use weed in Denver, snow) and rightly so.   While history is being made in the Rockies, back here in California we’re sort of stuck in Prohibition. Here, local governments are still allowed to say, “No thanks” to medical
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  • Colorado Marijuana Sales Break $1 Million On Day 1, Ben & Jerry’s Tweets In Celebration

    Colorado Marijuana Sales Break $1 Million On Day 1, Ben & Jerry’s Tweets In Celebration

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    It took three months for the Obamacare website to get its act together but the first day of legal marijuana in Colorado was an unambiguous success: marijuana sales topped $1 million, according to 9News, on Colorado’s first day of selling marijuana to anyone willing to pay for it, no prescription required (just an ID that says
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  • There’s Only One Week to Sign and Mail in Medical Marijuana Petitions FLORIDA GET UP AND VOTE!!!

    There’s Only One Week to Sign and Mail in Medical Marijuana Petitions FLORIDA GET UP AND VOTE!!!

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    The push is on to make Florida the next state to legalize medical marijuana. Organizers have one month to get 700,000 signatures on a petition to get the issue on the November ballot. But since state laws require that the petitions be paper petitions that are mailed in via snail mail — not online ones
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  • Colo. Teen Addiction Centers Gear Up for Legal Pot

    Colo. Teen Addiction Centers Gear Up for Legal Pot

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    While many Coloradoans rang in the new year by lining up outside marijuana dispensaries for a celebratory toke, some rehab centers are prepping for an increase of marijuana-addicted patients in 2014, especially teenage users. Although only people over the age of 21 are allowed to buy marijuana, psychiatrists and others remain concerned that teens could be most at
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  • Legal Marijuana Will Fuel a Necessary Paradigm Shift

    Legal Marijuana Will Fuel a Necessary Paradigm Shift

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    “I had myself a ball…it’s a thousand times better than whiskey.” -Louis Armstrong   Legal recreational marijuana became a reality for those 21 and older in Colorado on January 1st. This is a big deal for many reasons: An improved economy, more sensible use of taxpayer dollars, less nonviolent humans locked in cages and more
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  • Colorado pot shops open Increase in price worries some

    Colorado pot shops open Increase in price worries some

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    Long lines and blustery winter weather greeted Colorado marijuana shoppers testing the nation’s first legal recreational pot shops yesterday. It was hard to tell from talking to the shoppers, however, that they had waited hours in snow and frigid wind. “It’s a huge deal for me,” said Andre Barr, a 34-year-old deliveryman who drove from
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  • Queues, Caution as Cannabis Sales Continue in Colorado

    Queues, Caution as Cannabis Sales Continue in Colorado

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    For Colorado’s groundbreaking retail pot market, lines have been long and sales brisk since Wednesday, when the state became the first in the U.S. to allow legal marijuana sales to anyone older than 21. At Lodo Wellness in Denver, there were plenty of customers and product — all smokable and drinkable. “Since we opened, we’ve
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  • I, Like David Brooks, Have Smoked Marijuana

    I, Like David Brooks, Have Smoked Marijuana

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    In order to comment on the marijuana legalization debate, it is apparently necessary to confess to your own history of pot-smoking first, so here goes: While in college, I experimented with marijuana. To be precise, I conducted 132 experiments with marijuana. It might have been 374 experiments. I’m not sure, because I lost my notes.
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  • Colorado opens Marijuana shops to kick off 2014

    Colorado opens Marijuana shops to kick off 2014

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    For more than 70 years, the sale of marijuana for recreational use has been criminally prohibited in the United States. But that ban, as it has existed for decades, ended Wednesday in Colorado. The historic first, legal sales of recreational marijuana to those 21-and-older began in the morning at select dispensaries in Colorado — the
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  • US offers world’s first legal recreational marijuana

    US offers world’s first legal recreational marijuana

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    No wonder they look pleased. Darren Austin and his son Tyler from Decatur, Georgia, are queuing to buy the first legally available recreational marijuana in the US, from the Denver Discreet Dispensary in Colorado. From 1 January, residents of Colorado aged 21 or older became the beneficiaries of the first law anywhere in the world
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  • Washington cities slow to implement legal marijuana

    Washington cities slow to implement legal marijuana

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    Though Washington voters approved growing and selling recreational marijuana, few cities have taken steps to implement the law. SEATTLE — Sales of recreational marijuana are due to start in Washington around late spring, but there’s no welcome mat — at least not yet — for pot businesses in dozens of cities around the state. A
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  • Marijuana application numbers growing

    Marijuana application numbers growing

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    The final list of applicants for a recreational marijuana license wasn’t available at press time, but the most recent compilation released by the Washington Liquor Control Board shows a marked jump in the number of marijuana license applications that have been filed.   One board employee, who asked not to be identified, said the list
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  • Colorado’s legal recreational marijuana industry opens

    Colorado’s legal recreational marijuana industry opens

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    DENVER – Crowds were serenaded by live music as they waited for the nation’s first legal recreational pot shops to open. They ate doughnuts and funnel cakes as a glass-blower made smoking pipes. Some tourists even rode around in a limo, eager to try weed but not so eager to be seen buying it. And when
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  • Wyoming Highway Patrol issues warning about Colorado-purchased marijuana

    Wyoming Highway Patrol issues warning about Colorado-purchased marijuana

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    The Wyoming Highway Patrol issued a warning Thursday not to bring Colorado purchased marijuana into the state. The patrol issued a news release with the words in the email’s subject in all caps: Do not bring your Colorado purchased marijuana into Wyoming. Wednesday was the first day Colorado allowed the purchase of recreational marijuana. The
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  • Economist magazine hails Uruguay for legalising cannabis and gay marriage

    Economist magazine hails Uruguay for legalising cannabis and gay marriage

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    British magazine The Economist has chosen Uruguay as its country of the year. The title, explaining its decision (registration maybe required), praised the country’s “path-breaking reforms” that “might benefit the world”. Uruguay has passed a law to legalise and regulate the production, sale and consumption of cannabis. It also legalised gay marriage – a policy The Economist said had “increased the
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  • Palm Springs council sets marijuana dispensary tax at 10 percent

    Palm Springs council sets marijuana dispensary tax at 10 percent

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    PALM SPRINGS — The three legal medical marijuana dispensaries will now be required to pay the city 10 percent of their proceeds starting Jan. 1 while the illegal operations will be required to pay 15 percent. The Palm Springs City Council on Wednesday approved 4-1 the pot tax rates and a series of other changes including
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  • Liquor Control Board bans pot from Washington bars

    Liquor Control Board bans pot from Washington bars

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    The state Liquor Control Board on Wednesday adopted a rule change that makes it illegal for any liquor-licensed establishment to allow marijuana consumption of any kind on its premises. The rule change likely goes into effect 30 days from Wednesday’s unanimous board vote, said Mikhail Carpenter, a spokesman for the Liquor Control Board. That means,
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