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Alaska Reporter Who Quit On Live TV Is Trying To Start Her Own Pot Business
How could we forget.Charlo Greene quit her job in the most histrionic of ways. A TV reporter in Alaska, Greene used her airtime in September to pull off a crazy stunt. She stated that she's the owner...
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New York City Police Will No Longer Arrest People For Low-Level Marijuana...
New York City police will begin issuing a summons rather than making a misdemeanor arrest for most people caught carrying small amounts of marijuana, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday.The...
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Scientists Found Something Strange When They Looked At The Brains Of Stoners
If you were to peek inside the brain of someone who regularly smoked marijuana, you would find that it didn't look quite like the brain of someone who didn't smoke.First, you might notice that a...
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Border Patrol Seized This Jesus Statue Filled With $20,000 Worth Of Marijuana
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Cincinnati said Friday that they had discovered approximately $20,000 of marijuana concealed inside of a religious decorative statue. “This unique seizure...
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Pilot In Pennsylvania Admits Cargo Was Pot, Not Hot Water Tanks
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - A pilot who initially claimed his small plane's cargo was hot water tanks has admitted it was actually 252 pounds of marijuana, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Pennsylvania said on...
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Bob Marley's Family And A Private Equity Firm Are Getting Into The Legal...
SEATTLE (Reuters) - The family of Reggae icon Bob Marley and a Seattle-based private equity firm on Tuesday said they are launching the first global cannabis brand with marijuana products sold under a...
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Meet Sparc, The Apple Store Of Marijuana Shops
When you walk into Sparc, a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco, you may have to do a double take before you realize they’re selling weed."If you walk into any other business, whether it's a...
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9 Unusual Businesses That Are Taking Advantage Of The Legal Marijuana Industry
Marijuana businesses are hot right now in the United States, but they date back to colonial times, when it was mandated by British law to grow hemp. In the last few years, the pot industry has been...
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DEA: Cartels Are Now Smuggling US Weed Into Mexico
Legalized marijuana might help cut down on drug dealing in the US, but cartels are now smuggling the high-quality weed into Mexico for illegal sale there, Steven Nelson of U.S. News reports.DEA...
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A Look At The Company Leading Marijuana's Debut On Wall Street
Excitement surrounding medical marijuana led to a significant run-up in GW Pharmaceuticals' share price earlier this year, but based on the company's recently announced quarterly and fiscal full-year...
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Wall Street Analyst Argues Big Tobacco Will Soon Have To Answer Questions...
Wall Street's top-tier research departments have largely avoided the marijuana-legalization conversation because it hasn't really affected the stocks they cover.The big tobacco companies have also been...
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Get Ready For The Pot-Alyzer
We're having something of a marijuana moment in the U.S. right now.Four states and the District of Columbia have passed laws legalizing pot for recreational use, and 18 others allow the drug to be used...
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Peter Thiel's Fund Eyes A Major Investment In A $425 Million Marijuana...
Earlier this year, Peter Thiel caused a stir when he accused Twitter's management of being high on pot. He later backed away from his comments, saying, "You could smoke a lot of pot and still have a...
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Meet The 'Grandfather Of Marijuana' Who Discovered THC
When Raphael Mechoulam first asked the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a grant to research cannabis back in 1963, the top U.S. public health agency was quick to show him the door. “They told...
View ArticleHere's Why Marijuana Is More Addictive These Days
One of the common misconceptions people have about marijuana is that it isn't addictive. Dr. Samuel Ball of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia)...
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America's High School Kids Prefer Weed
Bad news for tobacco companies: America's teens prefer marijuana.The latest research from a Morgan Stanley's tobacco analysts reveals two major trends in teen smoking habits.First, high schoolers are...
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Shelters Blame Denver's Rise In Homelessness Partly On Legal Weed
DENVER (AP) — Chris Easterling was sick of relying on drug dealers in Minneapolis when he needed marijuana to help ease the pain of multiple sclerosis. They were flaky, often leaving the homeless man...
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Legalizing Marijuana In Washington And Colorado Hasn't Gotten Rid Of The...
SEATTLE (AP) — A year into the nation's experiment with legal, taxed marijuana sales, Washington and Colorado find themselves wrestling not with the federal interference many feared, but with...
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Marijuana Could Be The Solution To The Heroin Epidemic
In the 1930s, Harry J. Anslinger, the first head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, embarked on a fierce anti-marijuana campaign. Highlighted by the 1936 anti-marijuana film Reefer Madness – where...
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