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Article by Daniel Oberhaus, Motherboard You could almost say Veronica Carpio was born to sell cannabis. Aside from having a birthday on 4/20, the 38-year old Colorado native was also the first female dispensary owner in the state, ran a covert coffee shop appropriately called The Front, and now oversees the largest hemp seed exchange in the state while producing ...

Article by Matthew Schneier, The New York Times Martha Stewart arrived for dinner at the back-room chef’s table of the Nice Guy restaurant here recently, on what happened to be Taco Tuesday. The specialty of the house, the waitress told her, was its own interpretation of a Jack in the Box taco, a staple of Southern California drive-through fast-food cuisine. ...

Article by Nelson Mensah-Aborampah, Vancouver Sun Marijuana is just one of many controlled substances that make their way onto university campuses, but its upcoming legalization is going to present particular challenges for Canadian universities as they attempt to strike a balance between federal law and university policy. Canadian universities have zero-tolerance policies toward the use or possession of marijuana. Nevertheless, ...

Article by The Associated Press via ABC News Twin brothers, both devout Mormons, are among a growing legion of Utah residents embracing medical marijuana as a way to treat a host of ailments. Nathan Frodsham has advanced degenerative disc disease, leaving him with burning pain as nerves in his neck are pinched by bones. The pain made long days working ...

Article by Philip Brasor, The Japan TImes Former actress Saya Takagi was arrested in Okinawa on Oct. 25 for possession of marijuana, three months after she unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Upper House election on a platform to legalize pot for medical purposes. She insists the contraband was not hers. Though Takagi, whose real name is Ikue Masudo, ...

Article by Robyn Miller and Chloé Fedio, CBC News Tessa Giberson made $12 an hour working at Green Tree Medical Dispensary on Preston Street — but said she’s now on the hook for the array of products in the store and all the cash on the property after police raided the business on Friday. “It’s absolutely terrifying. I was never, ever in my ...

Article by Oscar Pascual, SF Gate As the flow of cartel brick weed into the U.S. dwindles to due further legalization measures, the phenomenon of smuggling California pot southbound to Mexico has arisen. The abundance of high-quality legal marijuana in California has created a demand in Mexico that local cartels can’t supply with their own homegrown product, reports KQED. “If ...

Article by Leafedin With Chicago’s cannabis culture celebrating the passing of Chicago’s Senate Bill 10 extending the Medical Marijuana program along with SB 2228 That immediately decriminalized possession of 10 grams or less of marijuana, many veterans of the national political cannabis landscape once again found themselves worrying whether Illinois would be yet another state to find itself without the necessary ...

Article by Leah Eichler, The Globe and Mail Have you ever gone to work high? At one time, this may have been a question that underachieving high school students asked each other as they made their way to their evening shift at Burger King. However, as the frequency and legitimacy of marijuana usage increases, the question may start popping up ...

Article by Tom Angell, Marijuana.com President Obama says that federal laws banning marijuana will likely have to change if new states vote to legalize the drug on Tuesday. “The good news is is that after this referenda, to some degree it’s gonna call the question, because if in fact it passed in all these states, you now have about a ...