WASHINGTON: The legal cannabis industry in Washington is poised to scale in 2015, as more licensed retail stores come online and relatively low price points drive consumer … Read the full article...
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Business
MJBA’s Cannabis Job Fair Brings Together Top Employers and Job Seekers
State Senate Says No To Marijuana Vending Machines
WASHINGTON: The Washington state Senate has passed a bill to forbid selling marijuana through a drive-through window or in a vending machine. In a 47-0 vote Monday, … Read the full article...
MJ Research Report: Washington State Legal Pot Sales Reach $100M
By Joe Armes WASHINGTON: The recreation cannabis industry has surpassed $100M in sales in the first 33 weeks of legal sales in Washington State. Two months into the year … Read the full article...
Legal
Ticketing For Marijuana Possession Still On Radar For Tories
Washington House Readies Its Version Of Pot-Market Overhaul
Legislation Would Grant Medical Marijuana Tax Break For Terminally Ill
Holiday Inn Boycott: Marijuana Advocates Take Aim At Frisco, Colorado Hotel In Online Reviews
Jamaica Remains Largest Illicit Producer And Exporter Of Marijuana In Caribbean
Politics
Ticketing For Marijuana Possession Still On Radar For Tories
Washington House Readies Its Version Of Pot-Market Overhaul
Legislation Would Grant Medical Marijuana Tax Break For Terminally Ill
Deliberations Begin In Washington Medical Marijuana Trial
State Senate Says No To Marijuana Vending Machines
Hemp
Medical Pot Growers Fear Hemp Will Ruin Their Crop
OREGON: Southern Oregon farmers growing marijuana for medicine don't want fields of pot's prosaic cousin, industrial hemp, growing nearby.They say cross-pollination could turn their high-grade buds into throwback, seedy marijuana, something out of the 1960s that takes forever to get a user … Read the full article...
New Mexico Bill On Hemp Production Passes
NEW MEXICO: A bill to legalize marijuana previously went down in flames, but a separate measure for commercial use of hemp in New Mexico breezed through its first legislative test Tuesday. The Senate Conservation Committee voted 9-0 to advance the Industrial Hemp Farming Act. Committee members … Read the full article...
State’s First Industrial Hemp License Goes To A Southern Oregon Man
OREGON: A man who was issued the first state permit to grow industrial hemp said he and a nonprofit group of growers and activists hope to plant a 25-acre field in Southwest Oregon this spring. Edgar Winters, of Eagle Point, Ore., who describes himself as director of the Oregon Agriculture Food … Read the full article...
Senate Passes Bill Allowing Growing Industrial Hemp
WASHINGTON: Industrial hemp would be allowed to be grown in Washington state under a measure passed by the Senate. Senate Bill 5012 received unanimous support Wednesday in the Senate and now heads to the House for consideration. The measure authorizes the growing of industrial hemp as an … Read the full article...
Bill To Legalize Hemp Farming, Effectively Nullify Federal Ban Passes Washington State Senate 49-0
WASHINGTON: By a unanimous 49-0 vote this week, the Washington state Senate approved a bill that would authorize the farming, production, and sale of industrial hemp in the state, effectively nullifying the federal prohibition on the same once put into effect. Senate Bill 5012 (SB5012) … Read the full article...
GENERAL ASSEMBLY: House Votes To Allow Growing Of Industrial Hemp
VIRGINIA: The House of Delegates on Tuesday passed legislation that would allow industrial hemp to be grown in Virginia. The measure now moves to the state Senate, where a similar proposal is pending. Delegate Joseph R. Yost, R-Giles, the measure’s sponsor, on Monday had touted the economic … Read the full article...
Lifestyle
Warning About Potentially Lethal Fentanyl In Marijuana Directed At Recreational Pot Users
Secret Marijuana Farm Beneath Brooklyn Cherry Factory Leaves Many Mysteries
D.C.’s ‘Martha Stewart Of Marijuana’ Plants His First Seeds
MARIJUANA: Health Department’s TV Ads Take Dr. Seuss Approach To Pot
Marijuana Is Now Legal In Alaska, The 3rd U.S. State To OK Pot
Events
Want To Make A Difference? Get To D.C. In May
by Keith Stroup NORML will be holding its 2015 Legislative Fly-In in Washington, DC, on May 21 and 22, to lobby Congress on a number of pieces of pending legislation of interest to marijuana users. Please hold those dates and make plans now to join us this year. Registration for the Fly-In, along with the agenda for the two-days, is now … Read the full article...