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Economics
Feds: Attorneys Should Use Discretion When Prosecuting Cannabis-Related Banking Offenses
February 14, 2014A memo issued by the U.S. Department of Justice today directs U.S. attorneys to use their...
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Joint Opinions
Blue Collar Cannabis Economics
February 13, 2014Way back during the Vietnam War days when I was just a sprout, I avoided Vietnam...
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Politics
Members of Congress Ask Obama to Remove Cannabis from Schedule I Classification
February 13, 2014A letter from 18 individual members of Congress requesting that the President Obama “instruct Attorney General...
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Economics
Eight Cannabis Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2014
February 13, 2014By now we’ve heard the cannabis movement described as a Green Rush, an unprecedented point in...
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Economics
Next States to Legalize: Oregon, Alaska, California, Massachusetts and Maine
February 12, 2014Recreational cannabis in Colorado stands to gross $359 million this year, while weed shops in Washington...
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Economics
How Hemp Plastics Could Save the Economy While Saving the Planet
February 12, 2014Far out in the most desolate, virgin blue waters of the Pacific Ocean is a post-apocalyptic...
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Politics
Illinois Marijuana Patients Face New Hurdles
February 10, 2014In August 2013, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed HB 1 into law, legalizing medical marijuana in...
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Products
Cheeba Chews Cannabidiol/THC Mix for Pain Relief
February 6, 2014Photo courtesy of Cheeba Chews Whether or not most edibles available in legal states today can...
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Economics
California Drought Could Drive Up Nation’s Cannabis Prices
February 3, 2014There is little doubt that the drought in California this year will affect millions of people,...
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Politics
Alaska: The Next State to Legalize Recreational Sales?
January 30, 2014On January 8, the Alaska Campaign to Regulate Marijuana submitted roughly 46,000 signatures—a whopping 16,000 more...
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Economics
Industrial Hemp Legislation Passed in 20 States
January 30, 2014In 1938, Popular Mechanics Magazine ran an article titled “Billion Dollar Crop” touting the potential in...
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Legal
CO Stoners Can’t Use Food Stamps to Buy Weed
January 16, 2014Rocky Mountain stoners may be using food stamps to buy weed, and although this potential trend...
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Economics
Will Weed Run Out in Colorado?
January 11, 2014With more than 50 recreational cannabis shops now open and statewide numbers reported to have exceeded $1 million in...
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Cannabis
By the Numbers: How Legalization is Changing Colorado’s Economy
January 9, 2014Colorado has changed the course of marijuana prohibition by becoming the first state to not just...
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Economics
Investing In the Future: Q&A with Christian Groh of Privateer Holdings
January 8, 2014With the dawn of the era of legal recreational cannabis sales, the business climate for cannabis...
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Cannabis
Buying Legal Marijuana on New Years Day
January 3, 2014It was chilly in the earliest hours of 2014. Too chilly to be out in the...
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Joint Opinions
Legal Sales in Colorado: It’s Time for the Federal Government to Allow the Free Market to Control Cannabis
January 2, 2014Now that the floodgates of legal marijuana have been opened in Colorado, it seems a lot...
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Joint Opinions
Kwanzaa’s Seven Principles: Lessons for Marijuana Activists in 2014
January 1, 2014Kwanzaa is my favorite winter celebration, mostly because Kwanzaa is about more than shopping and gifts...
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Politics
Michigan as a Cannabis Battleground
December 12, 2013Two bills that would restore the state of Michigan’s medical marijuana program are being fast-tracked for...
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Joint Opinions
Will Legalization End the War on Weed? Doubtful.
November 28, 2013With little over a month left until the new legalization laws in Washington and Colorado go...