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KTVA Anchorage reporter Charlo Greene threw down the gauntlet live on-air in Alaska in support of legalizing cannabis by saying she was the owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club ... And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but, fuck it, I quit."
Washington tax coffers could get a $25 million boost by next July and nearly $200 million by mid-2017 from legal marijuana, state economists estimate.
Puff, puff, pass the paperwork. About 9.74% of Americans have gone to work under the influence of marijuana, according to a survey conducted by SurveyMonkey for Mashable.
Sales of legal retail marijuana have topped sales of medical marijuana in Colorado for the first time since the state’s recreational pot shops opened their doors on Jan. 1, according to tax figures released by the Colorado Department of Revenue.
I found this new place had all the same stuff I liked about the first one, but at about 2/3 the price. After that visit, I never went back to my first dispensary.
According to the Denver Post, for-profit companies will not be awarded funding for state-supported medical marijuana research, under the terms of the grant program released Wednesday. However, for-profit firms will be approved as subcontractors on grant proposals.
Colorado is missing $21.5 million in pot taxes. Voters were told the state would pull in $33.5 million from two new taxes in the first six months of 2014. But pot smokers are still buying on the black market because legal pot costs a lot more than illegal pot.
Two Canadian medical marijuana producers, Bedrocan (BED)& OrganiGram (OGI), began public trading on Monday, joining their competitor Tweed Inc. on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The U.S. now has two states with two separate cannabis economies. Colorado was the first to get a recreational business up and running, while Washington is severely lagging behind a backlog of paperwork. What Washington lacks in speed, though, it seems ...
Yesterday, I believe, we got another morsel of evidence illustrating the reach of the pro-cannabis movement. Al Olson, veteran journalist and a Senior Editor at NBC news left his post to become the managing editor of a Marijuana news site.
Marijuana prices hit another new high this week with 1-gram bags from one grower selling for between $32.50 and $38 after taxes, compared to the roughly $20 a gram when the stores first opened, and $5 to $10 per gram on the black market.
Seattle’s pot curious and aficionados who have been standing in lines and hitting refresh on their Web browsers waiting for supply to surface at Cannabis City now have a second store where they can get state-licensed weed.
About 105 different financial institutions spread out over one-third of the country have reported relationships with legal marijuana-related businesses, the top U.S. anti-money laundering official said Tuesday, suggesting federal rules are allowing a newly-legalized crop of companies access to banking services.
In a report commissioned by the Marijuana Enforcement Division earlier this year, data show that Colorado residents and visitors will consume an estimated 130.3 metric tons of marijuana in 2014, but only about 77 metric tons will come from legal medical or recreational outlets
Washington state-licensed marijuana retailers sold an estimated $3.8 million in cannabis products in July, the first month during which such sales were allowed under state law.
The New York Times had its first-ever full-page marijuana-related ad run on the heels of its editorial board calling for the drug's legalization. The ad, from a company called Leafly, ran on page 17 in the paper's A section, and featured the tagline "Just Say Know."
Faced with growing concern about the use of marijuana "edibles" and taking preemptive steps toward industry self-education and self-regulation, the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) announced...
Florida pot dispensers could truck their product to patients, under a revised rule proposed by health regulators in advance of a workshop Friday about the state's move to a limited type of medical marijuana.
