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The best cannabis posts from around the web

October 14, 2014
10/14/2014
Massachusetts Has Banked Over $3M in Dispensary Fees & Not a Single Marijuana Seed Has Been Planted

Massachusetts Has Banked Over $3M in Dispensary Fees & Not a Single Marijuana Seed Has Been Planted

To date, Massachusetts DPH has banked $3,271,500 in application fees from prospective dispensaries. Consider that 181 applicants paid out $1,500 apiece. When that number was trimmed down...
October 14, 2014
10/14/2014
Healing Recipes: HIV – Stuffed Shiitake Mushrooms

Healing Recipes: HIV – Stuffed Shiitake Mushrooms

Cannabis has been shown to be extremely beneficial for HIV patients, providing anxiety relief, appetite stimulant, relieving neuropathic pain and combating many symptoms and side effects of...
October 13, 2014
10/13/2014
Online Dating Site Caters to Cannabis Crowd

Online Dating Site Caters to Cannabis Crowd

For some pot smokers, it’s difficult to broach the topic of marijuana use with prospective romantic partners. Do you invite your date in for a nightcap and...
October 13, 2014
10/13/2014
NYC Hosts Medical Marijuana Expo as State Ramps Up for Legalization

NYC Hosts Medical Marijuana Expo as State Ramps Up for Legalization

New York state lawmakers and advocates of medical marijuana gathered at an expo in New York City on Sunday to discuss the implementation of a new state...
October 10, 2014
10/10/2014
NFL Star Adrian Peterson Ordered Arrested for Pot Admission

NFL Star Adrian Peterson Ordered Arrested for Pot Admission

Prosecutors in Montgomery County, Texas, have filed paperwork to have Adrian Peterson’s bail revoked and the Minnesota Vikings running back re-arrested after he told a drug tester...
October 10, 2014
10/10/2014
New at the Pot Shop: Marijuana Lite

New at the Pot Shop: Marijuana Lite

Recreational marijuana sellers are reaching out to novice cannabis users with a raft of lite edible products that impart a milder buzz and make it easy for...
October 9, 2014
10/09/2014
D.C. Council Votes Unanimously to Strengthen Record Sealing Laws to Relieve People With Prior Marijuana Possession Arrest

D.C. Council Votes Unanimously to Strengthen Record Sealing Laws to Relieve People With Prior Marijuana Possession Arrest

The D.C. Council voted unanimously in favor of a bill that would improve the process by which a person can seal criminal records pertaining to conduct that...
October 9, 2014
10/09/2014
Exploding ‘Pot Pop’ Removed From Three Marijuana Shops

Exploding ‘Pot Pop’ Removed From Three Marijuana Shops

When Top Shelf Cannabis in Bellingham took delivery of 330 bottles of a brand new marijuana infused soda pop on September 28, they were excited to promote...
October 8, 2014
10/08/2014
Terpene Profile: Pinene

Terpene Profile: Pinene

In this issue of Terpene Profiles, the properties of pinene are broken down and the therapeutic benefits are explored. Get to know this terpene and discover what...
October 8, 2014
10/08/2014
Marijuana Police Accidentally Raid Man’s Okra Garden

Marijuana Police Accidentally Raid Man’s Okra Garden

Police flying in helicopters looking for marijuana plants last week tracked down a man who they believed was illegally growing cannabis. Yet they soon discovered the plants...
October 7, 2014
10/07/2014
Morocco, Top Hash Provider, Mulls Legislation to Break Marijuana Taboo and Legalize Growing

Morocco, Top Hash Provider, Mulls Legislation to Break Marijuana Taboo and Legalize Growing

Morocco’s marijuana farmers live in a strange limbo in which the brilliant green fields are largely left alone, while the growers face constant police harassment. A new...
October 3, 2014
10/03/2014
A 33-Year Police Veteran Stars in Oregon’s New $2M Marijuana Legalization Ad Campaign

A 33-Year Police Veteran Stars in Oregon’s New $2M Marijuana Legalization Ad Campaign

Marijuana legalization advocates in Oregon have launched a $2 million-plus ad campaign starring a 33-year police veteran, Pete Tutmark, who criticizes what he calls a “broken” system that...
October 3, 2014
10/03/2014
Houston District Attorney Candidates Move to Reduce Threat of Arrest for Possession of Small Amounts of Marijuana

Houston District Attorney Candidates Move to Reduce Threat of Arrest for Possession of Small Amounts of Marijuana

As reported by the Houston Chronicle, a move to replace criminal penalties with civil penalties for the possession of small amounts of marijuana surfaced Wednesday as a major...
October 3, 2014
10/03/2014
Colorado’s Legal Marijuana Harvest Is Underway

Colorado’s Legal Marijuana Harvest Is Underway

Down a long dirt road snaking deep into the yellow hills of southern Colorado, Ryan Griego and his staff are harvesting green gold: legal marijuana. Here, 1,000 organically...
October 3, 2014
10/03/2014
NORML PAC Endorses Representative Heck for Congress

NORML PAC Endorses Representative Heck for Congress

NORML PAC is pleased to endorsed Representative Denny Heck (D-WA) in his campaign to be reelected to the United States Congress representing Washington’s 10th Congressional District. “Rep....
By: NORML
October 3, 2014
10/03/2014
Jamaica Drafts Pot Decriminalization Bill

Jamaica Drafts Pot Decriminalization Bill

Jamaica’s justice minister said Tuesday that legislation has been drafted to decriminalize marijuana on the Caribbean island where the drug has been pervasive but prohibited for a...
October 2, 2014
10/02/2014
Medical Marijuana Update (2014.10.01)

Medical Marijuana Update (2014.10.01)

A new study punctures some myths about medical marijuana in California, Connecticut’s dispensaries finally open for business, the Illinois program is moving along, and more. Let’s get...
October 2, 2014
10/02/2014
Philadelphia Mayor Nutter Signs Marijuana Decriminalization Bill

Philadelphia Mayor Nutter Signs Marijuana Decriminalization Bill

Starting October 20th, possession of small amounts of marijuana will be a civil offense in the city of Philadelphia. Mayor Michael Nutter signed Jim Kenney’s marijuana decriminalization bill...
October 2, 2014
10/02/2014
Peer-Reviewed Study Refutes Claims of Widespread Abuse in California’s Medical Marijuana Program

Peer-Reviewed Study Refutes Claims of Widespread Abuse in California’s Medical Marijuana Program

Sacramento, CA — A new landmark study published last week by the peer-reviewed journal Drug and Alcohol Review refutes the long-held belief that abuse of California’s medical marijuana law is ubiquitous. The...
October 2, 2014
10/02/2014
Big Changes Set to Alter Colorado Recreational Marijuana Industry

Big Changes Set to Alter Colorado Recreational Marijuana Industry

Colorado embarks on a new era for its legal recreational marijuana industry Wednesday, when two major changes will impact the industry’s make-up. Wednesday is the first day people...