Search results for "prohibition"
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Politics
Sanders Outperforms Bush On Cannabis At Town Halls
February 20, 2016With the Nevada caucus and South Carolina primary looming large on Saturday, Democrats traveled to Las...
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Economics
Massive Growth Forecast for America’s Cannabis Industry
February 19, 2016If the steady drumbeat of legalization progress hadn’t already made it obvious, new market research produced...
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Economics
U.S. Hemp CBD Maker Granted Importation to Mexico
February 18, 2016“It’s like the Berlin Wall coming down,” says CEO Stuart Titus of Medical Marijuana Inc. after...
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Industry Events
Cannabis Conference Blends Activism and Business
February 16, 2016The International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC) has speakers ranging from legislators and entrepreneurs to activists and...
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Politics
Student Aid Penalty for Drug Convictions May End
February 13, 2016In 1998, the famously educated, youthful pot-sampling President Bill Clinton signed a law that took away...
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Joint Opinions
New Obama Budget Could Allow DEA Interference
February 12, 2016A couple of weeks ago, President Obama said that he had no plans to reform the...
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Legal
Warren To CDC: MMJ Can Treat Opioid Crisis
February 10, 2016Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote Centers for Disease Control Director Tom Frieden this week. Her message:...
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Edibles
Beyond Butter: Angel’s Million-Dollar Mission
February 8, 2016It’s all smiles, laughs and genuine enthusiasm as Garyn Angel, the founder and CEO of MagicalButter,...
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Joint Opinions
Politics and Pot: After the Iowa Caucuses
February 3, 2016Wherein your resident political junkie smokes a bowl and explains what happened in Iowa this week,...
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Economics
Is Beer Afraid of Weed?
February 3, 2016The word on the street is that the beer manufacturers are keeping a watchful eye on...
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Politics
President Will Not Make Marijuana Reform a Priority in 2016
February 2, 2016Although many people had hoped that President Obama would make an effort to end marijuana prohibition...
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Industry Events
Bipartisan Legalization on Display at ICBC
February 1, 2016With a presidential election season in full swing, most political discussions highlight the stark divisions between...
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Politics
Imminent Decision Due on Fate of MMJ in Illinois
January 30, 2016If the last half-century has shown us anything in Illinois, it’s that its governors, regardless of...
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Legal
Legalization Comes to the Midwest & Women Are Leading the Charge
January 26, 2016When it comes to drug policy reform, little attention has been paid to the conservative states...
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Medical
Study Suggests THC May Combat Alzheimer’s
January 23, 2016Cannabis may be a ray of hope ahead for sufferers and their families.
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Cultivation
Chile Unveils Largest Cannabis Farm in Latin America
January 22, 2016El Dorado does exist.
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Joint Opinions
Christie’s Pot Comments Draw Heckling at Republican Debate
January 21, 2016“We want Rand! We want Rand!” Somewhere near the two-and-a-half hour mark of last week’s Republican presidential...
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Politics
Pass It, Grassley: The CARERS Act and 2016
January 19, 2016Assume bill dead? Fred and I hit a deer on hiway 136 south of Dyersville. After...
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Legal
The Racial Divide – Discriminatory Policing in the Cannabis Industry
January 18, 2016Brionne Corbray’s friends warned him against opening a dispensary. The 50-year-old, Seattle-area native had never sold...
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Politics
Cannabis Reform Set for Debate at UN
January 16, 2016With the United Nations General Assembly Special Session scheduled to meet later this year in New...