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  • Rookie cannabis stocks overshadow more established peers in September

    Oct 1, 2018, 4:45 pm By Aoyon Ashraf, Bloomberg News
    Move over marijuana heavyweights, the rookies are taking over. The recent pot mania has seen a slew of companies looking to get in on the sector and stock returns this month have overshadowed larger and more established marijuana companies, including Canopy…
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  • LAX allows marijuana in airport but TSA says it’s still a crime

    Oct 1, 2018, 4:00 pm By John Rogers, Associated Press
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Here’s another thing travelers can consider bringing when a trip takes them through Los Angeles International Airport — marijuana. Just be careful about carrying it onto the plane. A written policy posted by airport police says small…
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  • Cannabis-laced drinks could be a $600 million U.S. market by 2022

    Sep 28, 2018, 10:45 am By Courtney Dentch, Bloomberg News
    Drinks infused with marijuana-derived compounds could swell to become a $600 million market in the U.S. within the next four years, outpacing the growth of other categories of retail cannabis products, according to analysts at Canaccord Genuity. Beverages with…
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  • Hemp, on the brink of being legal, still faces challenges

    Sep 28, 2018, 10:00 am By Sophie Quinton, Stateline.org
    DENVER — It’s a giddy time for the U.S. hemp industry. Farmers are planting more acres. Businesses are selling more products. And with Congress on the brink of fully legalizing hemp, industry insiders are eagerly anticipating a boom. But even if the…
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  • A push for cannabis grow compliance in Yuba County

    Sep 27, 2018, 12:15 pm By Rachel Rosenbaum, Marysville Appeal-Democrat
    It’s that time of year when a potent, skunk-like aroma permeates the Yuba County foothills, causing annoyed neighbors to call Code Enforcement. Though complaints keep Code Enforcement busy year-round, September and October are prime harvest months for…
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  • New details revealed on two Kern County marijuana ballot measures

    Sep 27, 2018, 11:30 am By Sam Morgen, Bakersfield Californian
    Voters will face a confusing ballot in November, especially when it comes to the three marijuana measures. To help make sense of the confusion, and to bring new details on the two marijuana measures that will impact the unincorporated county, Planning and…
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  • Novato considers allowing outdoor cannabis gardens

    Sep 27, 2018, 10:45 am By Daniel M. Jimenez, The Cannifornian
    Nearly two years after California voters chose to legalize recreational marijuana use and sales, Novato is considering giving residents more options on how to grow their personal cannabis garden. On Monday evening, the Planning Commission voted unanimously to…
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  • Alhambra bans all recreational marijuana businesses in the city

    Sep 27, 2018, 10:00 am By Christopher Yee, The Cannifornian
    The Alhambra City Council gave final approval Monday to a ban on all recreational marijuana businesses in the city. The ordinance approved by the council bans all land uses associated with recreational marijuana – commercial cultivation, manufacturing,…
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  • California couple get probation in Christmas cannabis presents case

    Sep 26, 2018, 10:45 am By The Associated Press
    YORK, Neb. (AP) — A California couple who said the marijuana they were hauling through Nebraska was intended for Christmas gifts have been given probation and conditional jail time. York County District Court records say 71-year-old Barbara and 80-year-old…
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  • Opinion: When stock-market smoke clears, marijuana profits may be in familiar hands

    Sep 26, 2018, 10:00 am By Nir Kaissar, Bloomberg Opinion
    Investors may be betting on marijuana in all the wrong places. Enthusiasm for pot stocks reached a fever pitch last week when investors piled into British Columbia-based Tilray Inc., a developer of cannabis medicinal products, doubling its stock price over…
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  • Three Kern County marijuana ballot measures to compete in November

    Sep 25, 2018, 10:45 am By Sam Morgen, Bakersfield Californian
    Depending on where you live, you may see two marijuana measures on your ballot or just one. Three initiatives by two citizens groups have qualified for the November Kern County ballot through signature drives that collected more signatures than 10 percent of…
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  • Outcomes vary for would-be Napa cannabis retailers

    Sep 25, 2018, 10:00 am By Howard Yune, Napa Valley Register
    One group hoping to launch Napa’s market for medical cannabis hopes to open its doors by year’s end. Meanwhile, another would-be seller is seeing more than three years of effort put on hold. In the 10 months since Napa opened a path for merchants to open…
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  • Restaurant finds itself in hot water for marijuana-lobster stunt

    Sep 24, 2018, 3:15 pm By The Associated Press
    SOUTHWEST HARBOR, Maine (AP) — State health inspectors are investigating a Maine lobster restaurant that tried to mellow out lobsters with marijuana. The Portland Press Herald reports Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound in Southwest Harbor remains open but…
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  • Judge: California child can take cannabis drug to school

    Sep 24, 2018, 2:30 pm By The Associated Press
    SANTA ROSA (AP) — A California kindergartner can keep bringing a cannabis-based drug used for emergency treatment of a rare form of epilepsy to her public school, a judge ruled Friday. The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat reported that a judge sided with the family…
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  • Sonoma County says it’s shut down more than 600 illegal cannabis operators since last year

    Sep 24, 2018, 1:45 pm By J.D. Morris, Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
    Sonoma County on Friday touted its efforts to rein in unauthorized cannabis operations after facing criticism from some rural residents who say county officials haven’t done enough to shutter pot farms that don’t have permits. Since the start of last year,…
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  • Martinez council leery about letting marijuana business operate in same building as ‘youth center’

    Sep 24, 2018, 1:00 pm By Sam Richards, The Cannifornian
    MARTINEZ — Though most City Council members said Wednesday they’re OK with having a medical marijuana dispensary in town, they noted that putting one next to a gym visited primarily by children and teens may not be a great idea. The council postponed…
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  • Marijuana stock trading is dominated by dudes and millennials

    Sep 24, 2018, 12:15 pm By Vildana Hajric & Sarah Ponczek, Bloomberg News
    Marijuana stock trading is dominated by dudes. Men accounted for 75 percent of all cannabis-related securities trades over the past month, according to data from TD Ameritrade, the online broker with 11 million clients who hold more than $1 trillion in assets.…
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  • Marijuana grower sues Yuba County over equipment seizure

    Sep 24, 2018, 11:30 am By Rachel Rosenbaum, Marysville Appeal-Democrat
    The owner of a Sacramento cannabis dispensary is suing Yuba County for allegedly seizing and destroying $700,000 worth of grow equipment. Justin Green, owner of Green Solutions in Midtown Sacramento, filed the suit last month against the county, Code…
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  • Woodland gives OK to five cannabis businesses

    Sep 24, 2018, 10:45 am By Jim Smith, Woodland Daily Democrat
    There was applause and some cheering when Woodland’s Planning Commission approved a series of a total of five separate cannabis manufacturing, distribution and testing facilities in the city’s industrial section. Some of the 21 people gathered before the…
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  • Montebello residents want to overthrow decision to allow some marijuana businesses

    Sep 24, 2018, 10:00 am By Mike Sprague, The Cannifornian
    People who don’t want commercial indoor cultivation, manufacturing, testing and delivery of marijuana products in Montebello on Wednesday filed the paperwork for an initiative that would ban all those uses as well as retail dispensaries, which never were…
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