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Medical cannabis benefits Crohn's patients and feelings of social exclusion

2013-05-17 17:20:00

It was an eventful week in medical marijuana news with groundbreaking discoveries happening in laboratories around the world. In addition to finding out that cannabis can lower risks for bladder...

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Box Corner: Protectionism in Colorado is bad for cannabis progress

2013-05-17 16:20:00

Big pharma/tobacco/ag is coming for our pot: this much we know. With a market potential of "billions" being floated around, they certainly won't leave it in the hands of Joe Grower. When Colorad...

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Vermont legislature passes industrial hemp bill, Colorado farmer plants 60 acre hemp plot

2013-05-17 13:20:00

Vermont farmers will likely have one more option of what to cultivate this summer after the state legislature Monday gave final approval to Senate Bill 157 which lifts a state ban on hemp farming...

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Missouri decriminalization bill won't pass, but gets hearing on last day of legislature

2013-05-17 12:20:28

A proposal to decriminalize marijuana across the state will have a hearing this morning at the Missouri House of Representatives -- which appears to be the farthest this effort has ever gone in th...

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Seattle butcher serving pot-fed pigs

2013-05-17 11:20:00

No, its not going to make you stoned. It's could make you fat, though. A butcher in Seattle has begun serving pork from pot-fed pigs, and says the taste is hog-heaven. Cassandra Sawywer with the...

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Reporter claims chronic pain and gets a medical pot card, then implies wrongdoing

2013-05-17 09:20:00

Morgan Loew, a douchebag reporter with Phoenix's CBS 5, had a hunch: that only young and healthy people were getting a medical marijuana card from doctors who didn't really care about following t...

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American-grown cannabis causing decline in imported Mexican schwag (VIDEO)

2013-05-16 15:20:00

At least one drug warrior is admitting that marijuana legalization measures in the states are leading to a decline in weed crossing the border from Mexico. An unnamed El Paso undercover narcotics...

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Garden Grove, Calif. shuts down 60+ dispensaries

2013-05-16 13:20:00

The city of Garden Grove, Calif. has had a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in the town since 2008, though up until last week you wouldn't have known it by driving through the municipality of...

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D.C. councilmembers considering marijuana decriminalization measures

2013-05-16 11:20:00

Serious marijuana discussion is taking place in our nation's capitol, if only at the municipal level. According to the Washington Post, D.C. city council members are trying to decriminalize the...

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Texas marijuana decriminalization and medical marijuana bills dead for the session

2013-05-16 09:20:00

Marijuana advocates were abuzz last month -- and by "abuzz" we mean excited, of course -- when a bill to reduce penalties for marijuana possession was passed out the Texas House Criminal Jurisprud...

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Glass Class: Glassblowing and handblown pipe culture with Scott "Trikky" Saed

2013-05-15 16:20:00

To help all of us non-glass artists better understand the industry, evolution and art and science behind how our pipes, bubblers and bongs are made we've asked one of Colorado's most prominent an...

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Two San Diego toddlers drown in pool at suspected pot growing site

2013-05-15 15:20:00

Here's an awful situation no matter which way you view it. One-year-old Harley Bradford and her two-year-old brother, Jason, are dead after their mother found them both face down in a San Diego a...

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Cannabis use linked to decreased diabetes risk

2013-05-15 13:20:15

Regular marijuana use can reduce the risk of developing diabetes, according to new research published in the American Journal of Medicine. The study shows that marijuana users have better blood ...

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Nevada bill would exempt medical patients from some marijuana driving laws

2013-05-15 11:20:18

If the state allows people to use medical marijuana, they should also allow those patients to drive so long as they aren't impaired. That's the gist of a law currently making its way through the N...

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Drug counselor fears injectable marjuana on the horizon

2013-05-15 09:20:00

Nationally-known drug counselor Dr. Christian Thurstone says that people will develop strong marijuana addictions and will start injecting marijuana to find a deeper, heavier high. Okay, if you're...

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Poll: 56 percent of Arizonans support marijuana legalization

2013-05-14 16:41:22

Arizona is a red state in terms of both landscape and politics, but it looks like it's becoming greener and greener every day. Last week there was news that cannabis research is allowed on Arizo...

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Will pot magazines be treated like porn in Colorado? Not if this lawsuit is successful

2013-05-14 15:38:49

Discussions about the bill to regulate Colorado's ground-breaking marijuana legislation, Amendment 64, continue to draw in unexpected implications -- including language that essentially requires t...

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Large-scale hemp farms are bound for the ground in Colorado

2013-05-14 14:32:59

Although hemp (and of course, its THC-friendly sibling, marijuana) are still illegal at the federal level, Colorado's Amendment 64 has paved the way for new legislation allowing farmers to registe...

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Missouri music festival afraid of marijuana reform? Cannabis group says theater blocked access

2013-05-14 13:49:57

Is the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in St. Louis, Missouri afraid of marijuana reform? Advocacy group Show-Me Cannabis says the management at the theater denied the organization's vendor applicat...

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Marijuana use may lower risk of bladder cancer

2013-05-13 13:20:00

All of what you take into your body comes out somewhere, and that somewhere is often in your urine. Gross thought, but it has some major health implications when it comes to carcinogens like cig...

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