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With the rise of legal marijuana, drug education moves from ‘don’t’ to ‘delay’
Jun 7, 2018, 6:45 pm By Carrie Feibel, KQED
California legalized marijuana in 2016, and this past New Year’s Eve eager customers lined up in the darkness outside medical marijuana dispensaries across the state, ready to start shopping at the stroke of midnight. The effect has gone beyond the cannabis…

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Column: Could cannabis be just the thing to break partisan gridlock in Congress?
Jun 7, 2018, 5:54 pm By Paul Waldman, Special to the Washington Post
When Jeff Sessions became attorney general, he had two main policy goals: crack down on immigration and restart the war on drugs. The former is one of the main reasons he still has a job; as mad as President Trump might be that Sessions recused himself from…

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Is marijuana the new beer? Cannabis growers look to drinkable weed
Jun 7, 2018, 4:46 pm By Jen Skerritt, Bloomberg News
Forget the ol’ puff, puff, pass. Marijuana producers are betting an increasing number of people would rather pour a drink infused with pot. The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings Ltd. plans to develop a product-testing and manufacturing center to explore using…

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California’s legalized marijuana would be federally lawful under bill introduced by Cory Gardner, Elizabeth Warren
Jun 7, 2018, 2:04 pm By Mark K. Matthews, The Denver Post
WASHINGTON — Marijuana would be legal federally in states that already have approved the drug’s use under a bill introduced Thursday by U.S. Sens. Cory Gardner and Elizabeth Warren. The measure, unveiled at a Capitol Hill news conference, wouldn’t…

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Election update: Pasadena lifts cannabis-business ban
Jun 6, 2018, 4:45 pm By Hayley Munguia, The Cannifornian
Pasadena voters threw out the city’s current ban on cannabis dispensaries, with some 60 percent of voters choosing to reject the ban. The push to lift the ban began with a citizen-led effort to get a measure on the November ballot. That proposed measure…

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High Times magazine seeks revival in crowded landscape for pot publishers
Jun 6, 2018, 4:15 pm By Jennifer Kaplan, Bloomberg News
High Times, the cannabis-themed magazine founded more than four decades ago, once had the stoner audience largely to itself. Then came the legalization of marijuana in states across the U.S., which brought a surge of marijuana news providers — along with a…

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Wall Street’s cannabis investments stay hush-hush due to stigma
Jun 6, 2018, 3:26 pm By Jennifer Kaplan, Bloomberg News
Danny Moses wasn’t afraid to broadcast he’d profited from the 2008 housing crisis, but he’s keeping his latest investment — the burgeoning cannabis industry — closer to the vest. Moses, who was head trader at FrontPoint Partners under Steve Eisman,…

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Jurupa Valley voters deciding whether to allow marijuana dispensaries
Jun 5, 2018, 9:04 pm By Ryan Hagen, The Cannifornian
The fate of legal commercial marijuana in Jurupa Valley hangs in the balance as city voters go to the polls Tuesday, June 5. Voters are being asked to weigh in on two competing ballot measures. One is Measure A, which if passed would require officials to let…

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Colorado governor vetoes bill allowing marijuana “tasting rooms”
Jun 5, 2018, 4:26 pm By Jesse Paul, Denver Post
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Monday vetoed a bill that would have allowed licensed marijuana “tasting rooms” in Colorado — legislation that was the first of its kind in the nation — citing health and safety concerns. House Bill 1258 would have…

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Pets not eating more marijuana in California post Prop. 64, data shows
Jun 5, 2018, 10:00 am By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian
Pets aren’t getting stoned more, or less, than they did before recreational cannabis became legal earlier this year in California. For several years, calls to animal poison control centers about pets accidentally ingesting marijuana — typically when the…

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Cannabis companies now have access to property, liability insurance in California
Jun 4, 2018, 7:45 pm By Kevin Smith, The Cannifornian
When you’re running a marijuana business in California, getting insurance can be a challenge. Nearly all of the insurers that offer coverage are smaller carriers that aren’t regulated by the state and often are reluctant to enter the industry. California…

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Survey: Two-thirds of Americans say smoking marijuana is ‘morally acceptable’
Jun 4, 2018, 4:08 pm By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say that smoking marijuana is “morally acceptable,” while 31 percent disapprove of pot on moral grounds, according to a new survey released Monday by Gallup. That’s a sharp jump from 2013, when a similarly worded question…

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Proposed cannabis initiative aims to overturn ban in Pomona
Jun 4, 2018, 12:15 pm By Liset Márquez, The Cannifornian
Proponents of an initiative that aims to overturn Pomona’s ban on commercial marijuana operations have completed the first step in getting the measure on the November ballot. The measure proposes to amend Pomona’s zoning code to allow commercial cannabis…

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Poll finds sharp division in Sonoma County over cannabis cultivation
Jun 4, 2018, 11:30 am By Guy Kovner, Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
Sonoma County voters embraced marijuana legalization when it was on the ballot two years ago, but now that it’s a reality — a rapidly evolving industry and source of ongoing dispute — nearly half of those surveyed say they don’t want cannabis…

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Editorial: Shutting down illegal marijuana grows benefits everyone
Jun 4, 2018, 10:45 am By Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
At this weekend’s Cannabis Cup festival at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, growers and consumers celebrated California’s arrival as the world’s largest legal recreational marijuana market. But as they savor the results of their victories, they’d be wise…

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Minor clerical error clears way for SoCal community to craft cannabis ordinance
Jun 4, 2018, 10:00 am By Gustavo Solis, San Diego Union Tribune
A copy-and-paste error cost Imperial Beach residents the chance to vote on a ballot initiative that would have allowed recreational marijuana dispensaries, cannabis consumption lounges, and manufacturing facilities in the coastal city. Now, Imperial Beach is…

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Some California hospitals report uptick in ER visits for marijuana, though data is hard to come by
Jun 3, 2018, 10:00 am By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian
By some accounts, the legalization of recreational marijuana in California has coincided with a spike in the number of people seeking medical help for cannabis-related incidents. But the severity of the problem, if it exists, is an open question, as not every…

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Is Oregon’s marijuana glut a warning to California?
May 31, 2018, 6:45 pm By Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — When Oregon lawmakers created the state’s legal marijuana program, they had one goal in mind above all else: to convince illicit pot growers to leave the black market. That meant low barriers for entering the industry that also…

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Newport Beach lawsuit seeks to ban marijuana business that operated in residential neighborhoods
May 31, 2018, 6:15 pm By Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times
Newport Beach officials are asking an Orange County Superior Court judge to block a marijuana business from operating in two homes in violation of city law. A civil lawsuit filed May 4 seeks an injunction to forbid the business — known as OC Healing House,…

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California State Senate supports state-backed bank for cannabis businesses
May 31, 2018, 5:47 pm By Don Thompson, Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California lawmakers moved Wednesday to create a state-backed bank to handle the billions of dollars flowing from the newly legal recreational marijuana market. The world’s largest legal recreational marijuana economy, created under a law…

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