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Politics
D.C. Council Approves Record Sealing for Pot Offenses
October 25, 2014It has only been a few months since the D.C. Council voted to decriminalize possession of...
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Economics
Big Cannabusiness: Reconciling the Recreational Boom and the Medical Marketplace
October 17, 2014On New Year’s Day, as retail sales of cannabis went legal in Colorado, the state’s dispensaries...
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Economics
Marijuana Legalization: The Financial Impact
August 1, 2014By Michael S. Rothman Cannabis has long been considered less harmful and less addictive than other...
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Industry Events
Activism and Industry Meet at the State of Marijuana
July 30, 2014Cast against a backdrop of the Hollywood sign, cannabis activists and entrepreneurs gathered in Los Angeles...
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Hemp
Hemp Week
June 5, 2014We know that here in the U.S. we should have been celebrating Hemp Week all along....
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Economics
New York Legislators Propose Bill to Grow Industrial Hemp
May 7, 2014Although growing hemp in the U.S. has been illegal for decades, there are nearly a dozen...
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Joint Opinions
Driving High: New Marijuana Laws Continue to Get It Wrong About Cannabis and Driving
April 28, 2014As more and more states adopt medical and recreational marijuana policies, it seems the most feared...
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Joint Opinions
Survey Shows Majority of Police Officers Support Marijuana Policy Reform
April 14, 2014Though not conducted with the methodological rigor of the Pew poll that came out this week showing 54...
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Joint Opinions
Want Us to Support Obamacare? Cover Our Medical Marijuana
March 28, 2014The current administration’s history-defining attempt to overhaul the American health care system in order to (supposedly)...
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Joint Opinions
First Cannabis Industry Job Fair: A Sign Of Things To Come
March 18, 2014Just like the iconic lines wrapping around recreational dispensaries in Denver on New Year’s Day, the...
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Joint Opinions
Thank You, Governor Moonbeam
March 10, 2014In this November 1978 photo, Jerry Brown, left, accompanied by his parents, former California Gov. Edmund...
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Medical
The Epilepsy Foundation Pledges to Support Medical Marijuana Research
March 4, 2014Desperate parents of children with severe forms of epilepsy are demanding access to an experimental treatment...
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In The Magazine
Medicating America
March 1, 2014America is broken. Unemployment is at its highest since the recession of April 1983. The national...
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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
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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Joint Opinions
Obama Ignores America’s Fastest-Growing Industry in State of the Union Address
January 29, 2014During last night’s State of the Union address, President Obama made the controversial declaration that he...
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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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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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Grow
Harlequin: The Strain That Delivers a Warm, Glowy Feeling
December 23, 2013Harlequin, the first high-CBD strain discovered in the U.S., is among the rarest strains on the...