• Colo. Teen Addiction Centers Gear Up for Legal Pot

    Colo. Teen Addiction Centers Gear Up for Legal Pot

    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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  • Francis Slay On Pot Prosecution: “I’m Not For Legalizing Marijuana. It Sends A Bad Message.”

    Francis Slay On Pot Prosecution: “I’m Not For Legalizing Marijuana. It Sends A Bad Message.”

    Francis Slay, the mayor of St. Louis, is opposed to legalizing marijuana, as two states did in the last election. Not that anyone is asking him. In response to a question from Daily RFT about the proposal at the Board of Aldermen to reduce the punishment for possession of small amounts of pot, Slay says he’s against legalization. But
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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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  • Colorado Recreational Marijuana Sales Exceed $5 Million In First Week

    Colorado Recreational Marijuana Sales Exceed $5 Million In First Week

    Colorado marijuana dispensaries made huge sales in the first week of legal recreational marijuana. Owners of the 37 new dispensaries around the state reported first week retail sales to The Huffington Post that, when added together, were roughly $5 million. That’s a lot of green for Colorado’s legal weed. Colorado, the first state to allow retail recreational
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  • Where to Buy Marijuana in Los Angeles After Dispensary Ban Takes Effect

    Where to Buy Marijuana in Los Angeles After Dispensary Ban Takes Effect

    Now that the L.A. City Council has decided that all medical marijuana dispensaries must shut down by Sept. 6, where will you get your medicine?   The slacker down the street? No, he was put out of business by the dispensaries. MacArthur Park? Cleaned up years ago. Tijuana? You want to end up in Mexican prison over
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  • Proposed Denver MMJ Ad Ban Set for Public Hearing

    Proposed Denver MMJ Ad Ban Set for Public Hearing

    Colorado — A proposal to ban billboard, bus-bench and sidewalk sign-twirler advertising by Denver medical-marijuana dispensaries has pitted the state’s two most prominent cannabis trade groups against each other. On one side is the Cannabis Business Alliance, which denounces the proposal by saying it creates too many uncertainties for the industry. On the other is
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  • PureCure Indica Strip Review

    PureCure Indica Strip Review

    Ok, I have to admit that I’m not a medical user; sure I have some chronic ankle pain, but I’m not ‘medicating’ — I’m getting stoned high as a kite!  So the gray area between meds and recreation is a tough road to navigate…enter more products than you can sample and viola!  Confusion! So perhaps
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  • State liquor board would allow 3 Kent marijuana retail stores

    State liquor board would allow 3 Kent marijuana retail stores

    The city of Kent would be allowed as many as three recreational marijuana retail stores under the filing of proposed supplemental rules approved Wednesday by the the Washington State Liquor Control Board. The city of Kent, however, bans recreational marijuana stores as well as production or processing facilities. So if someone came to the city for
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  • Pot clinic owner now mayor of California city

    Pot clinic owner now mayor of California city

    SEBASTOPOL, Calif. (AP) — A medical marijuana dispensary owner is riding high after being named mayor of a Northern California city. Sebastopol’s City Council selected 36-year-old Robert Jacob as mayor earlier this week. Jacob runs two pot clinics in Sonoma County and officials believe he’s the first dispensary owner in the nation to serve as a mayor. Jacob has
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  • Why Country Music Stars Should Join the Marijuana Majority

    Why Country Music Stars Should Join the Marijuana Majority

    On average, HuffPost readers probably aren’t the biggest aficionados of country music. Still, many readers here understand the need for establishing responsible marijuana policy. When it comes to reversing archaic pot prohibition laws across the United States, the most regressive region is the same place where country music prevails most predominantly. In my opinion, one
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  • New Colorado Radio Station K-HIGH Devotes All Airtime To Marijuana

    New Colorado Radio Station K-HIGH Devotes All Airtime To Marijuana

    A Colorado radio station has become the first and only station in North America to dedicate its airtime exclusively to marijuana — and calls itself (wait for it) K-HIGH. Three weeks ago, K-HIGH was a Fox Sports affiliate, but its station owners wanted to try something different. They decided to capitalize on the growing popularity of marijuana after the state legalized recreational use
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  • We must get it right on implementation of legal marijuana

    We must get it right on implementation of legal marijuana

    In the 2012 election, voters took a historic step towards changing the war on drugs in Washington state in regards to marijuana. As the Liquor Control Board began to examine how to implement this new system, some advocates have said that Washington needs to do this right, and quickly. The state must get it right,
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  • Louisville OKs regulations for retail marijuana shops

    Louisville OKs regulations for retail marijuana shops

    Retail marijuana shops in Louisville won’t be allowed to give out free samples. That’s part of the new regulations the city council approved Tuesday, the Daily Camera reports. The city’s new ordinance allows the two existing medical marijuana dispensaries to seek permission for the retail sale of the drug. A moratorium already in place will prevent
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  • Dr. Drew under fire in Mindy McCready’s death

    Dr. Drew under fire in Mindy McCready’s death

    NASHVILLE, TENN.—The criticism of Dr. Drew Pinsky spread on the Internet almost as quickly as news of Mindy McCready’s death. The country singer with the tumultuous personal life became the fifth cast member of his Celebrity Rehab series to die since appearing on the show and the third from Season 3. The previous deaths stirred up rumours
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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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  • Medical marijuana on ballot

    Medical marijuana on ballot

    A Fayetteville-based group has taken one big step toward legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes only, bringing the measure to popular vote in the November general election. Arkansans for Compassionate Care (ACC), the proposed law’s sponsor, began its campaign to collect the needed 62,507 signatures from registered voters after Attorney General Dustin McDaniel certified the initiative
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  • Grandmas Grow Gold in Swaziland

    Grandmas Grow Gold in Swaziland

    Jonathan Torgovnik for The New York Times Sibongile Nkosi, 70, started growing marijuana near Piggs Peak when she heard that the plant could earn a decent return. IGGS PEAK, Swaziland — After her daughters died, Khathazile took in her 11 orphaned grandchildren without hesitation. It is what a gogo, or grandmother, does in a country
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  • Americans skeptical of value of enforcing marijuana laws

    Americans skeptical of value of enforcing marijuana laws

    Attorney General Eric Holder’s proposal to rein in mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug offenders comes at a time when American attitudes toward marijuana use are the most lax they’ve ever been and Americans are highly skeptical of the value of enforcing marijuana laws. A March Pew Research Center survey onchanging attitudes about marijuana found that nearly three-in-four
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  • Girl can attend school with her cannabis-based medicine, California court rules

    Girl can attend school with her cannabis-based medicine, California court rules

    It took a fight in court, but a 5-year-old girl will be allowed to bring her cannabis-based medicine to school and attend class with other students, according to a ruling by a California administrative court on Friday. Brooke Adams, a Santa Rosa, California, kindergartner, has Dravet Syndrome. It’s a severe and rare form of epilepsy
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  • Marijuana Eradication is Down But Seizures are Up

    Marijuana Eradication is Down But Seizures are Up

    USA — Federal data shows the number of live marijuana plants eradicated in outdoor and indoor grow operations has dropped in most states over the past three years, while the amount of bulk processed marijuana seized has doubled in that time. And authorities can’t pinpoint exact reasons. One thing is known: California, which provides the
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