• The world’s largest cannabis dispensary just opened in Vegas—and it has an entertainment complex attached

    The world’s largest cannabis dispensary just opened in Vegas—and it has an entertainment complex attached

    The world’s largest cannabis dispensary opened in Las Vegas. But it’s no ordinary dispensary — it’s also an entertainment complex where customers can do things like interactive laser graffiti. Opened Nov. 1, Planet 13 is the largest cannabis dispensary in the world according to the company, at 115,000 square feet. The 24-hour dispensary, which accounts for
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  • Cannabis On The Ballot: What Researchers Think You Should Know

    Cannabis On The Ballot: What Researchers Think You Should Know

    With voters in several states asked to decide about recreational and medical marijuana, a quick look at the state of knowledge about the drug and its derivatives Voters will go to the polls Tuesday to determine whether several states will legalize marijuana for medical or recreational uses, even as the federal government maintains it is an illegal
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  • Ganja Planted At The University Of West Indies

    Ganja Planted At The University Of West Indies

    Minister of Justice Mark Golding (right) and Courtney Betty (left), president and CEO of Timeless Herbal Care, jointly plant a ganja seedling at yesterday’s (April 21) launch of the symbolic planting of the first legal marijuana plant at the Lecture Theatre Two, Faculty of Medical Sciences Teaching and Research Complex. Overseeing the activities are (at
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  • Marijuana May Be The Least Dangerous Recreational Drug, Study Shows

    Marijuana May Be The Least Dangerous Recreational Drug, Study Shows

    Marijuana is far safer than alcohol, tobacco and multiple other illicit substances, researchers say, and strict, legal regulation of cannabis might be a more reasonable approach than current prohibitions. Those are the findings of a new report published in Scientific Reports that compares the lethality of the recreational use of 10 common drugs, including marijuana,
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  • Bethenny Frankel to Introduce Skinnygirl Marijuana

    Bethenny Frankel to Introduce Skinnygirl Marijuana

    Bethenny Frankel first got famous as a cast member of The Real Housewives of New York City, but she’s probably better-known for her Skinnygirl margaritas (and nutrition bars, and popcorn, and other cocktails). Now it looks like Bethenny Frankel may be cashing in on the growing marijuana industry. Although it’s unconfirmed, Frankel will likely soon
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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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  • Controversial Weed Growing iOS Game Pulled from App Store

    Controversial Weed Growing iOS Game Pulled from App Store

    A new iOS game called “Weed Firm” has been pulled out from the App Store for containing controversial content, reports App Advice. The game enjoyed top ranking on the Top Free iPhone Apps chart on Tuesday just before being removed from the App Store. Industry observers are now wondering how the game, with its controversial content, was
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  • The President Forgets To Lie About Marijuana, And Prohibitionists Are Outraged

    The President Forgets To Lie About Marijuana, And Prohibitionists Are Outraged

    Prohibitionists were outraged by President Obama’s recent observation that marijuana is safer than alcohol—not because it is not true but because it contradicts the central myth underlying public support for the war on drugs. According to that myth, certain psychoactive substances are so dangerous that they cannot be tolerated, and the government has scientifically identified
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  • Marijuana-friendly real estate agents and other enterprising businesspeople looking to make a bundle from Colorado’s weed industry.

    Marijuana-friendly real estate agents and other enterprising businesspeople looking to make a bundle from Colorado’s weed industry.

    Real estate agent Rona Hanson walks around a suburban home west of Denver that was recently put on the market by another realtor, liking what she sees. The 3,000-square-foot midcentury brick bungalow is in fine shape, with a picturesque horse farm across the street and front-porch views of the snow-topped Colorado foothills. But what most
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  • Marijuana advocates lay groundwork for legalization in Mass.

    Marijuana advocates lay groundwork for legalization in Mass.

    Advocates of marijuana legalization, emboldened by successes with ballot questions in Colorado and Washington state, are laying the groundwork for such a battle in Massachusetts in the next presidential election year. “In 2016, Massachusetts will find itself in the crosshairs for cannabis reform,” said Allen St. Pierre, the executive director of NORML, a national group
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  • Pathetic Pot Prohibitionists

    Pathetic Pot Prohibitionists

    Legalization in Colorado reveals the intellectual poverty of the war on marijuana. On Monday, less than a week after Colorado’s state-licensed marijuana shops beganserving recreational consumers, the anti-pot group Project SAM thanked three public figures who “have galvanized our movement.” One of them was Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Daily Beast, whose contribution consisted of this
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  • Poll: Majority wants marijuana legalized

    Poll: Majority wants marijuana legalized

    Another new poll shows a majority of Americans would like marijuana to be legal. The CNN/Opinion Research poll shows 55 percent think marijuana should be legal, while 44 percent think it should not. The 55 percent who support legalization is up 12 points from just more than a year ago. CNN isn’t the first pollster to show
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  • 7 Other Thought Leaders Who Have Smoked Pot

    7 Other Thought Leaders Who Have Smoked Pot

    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.

    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

    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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  • 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

    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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  • Legal Marijuana Will Fuel a Necessary Paradigm Shift

    Legal Marijuana Will Fuel a Necessary Paradigm Shift

    “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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  • Queues, Caution as Cannabis Sales Continue in Colorado

    Queues, Caution as Cannabis Sales Continue in Colorado

    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

    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

    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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