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Article by Keegan Hamilton, Vice Even by the usual standards of politics, this election’s campaign against marijuana legalization has made strange bedfellows. The largest donors to the various anti-weed political groups around the country include a billionaire casino tycoon, a woman who believes in reefer madness, a drug-crusading former U.S. ambassador, cops, prison guards, booze merchants, and a pharma company ...

Article by Patrick Cain, Global News Canada’s largest drug store chain has applied to be a licensed producer of medical marijuana, another sign that pharmacies are interested in playing a major role in a growing industry. “We believe that allowing medical marijuana to be dispensed through pharmacy would increase access, safety, quality and security for the thousands of Canadians who ...

Article by Aaron Beswick, Local Xpress William Brady wants the RCMP to pay for his pot — again. The Cape George, Antigonish County, medical marijuana grower says he will be filing an application with the Nova Scotia provincial court that will ask it to order the RCMP to pay him for 103 marijuana plants police seized on Dec. 7, 2012. If he is successful, it will ...

Article by Jessica Leone, Marijuana Resources Flushing cannabis involves flooding the soil with water until it runs clean, anywhere between a few days and 2 weeks before harvesting your plant. The question is why? Well, when the marijuana plants are growing, a lot of nutrients are needed to grow them healthy and strong. High nutrient soil is an essential part ...

Article by Diana Olick, CNBC It could be the hottest outgrowth of the pot-conomy — highly lucrative for both investors and cannabis companies. The industrial real estate that houses pot production is in high demand, and it is about to become the first opportunity for investors large and small to get in on marijuana. How? The biggest problem for cannabis ...

Article by As It Happens, CBC If Alan Ranta could go back in time, he’d refuse to answer the question. A couple of weeks ago, the Vancouver music writer drove south to attend a music festival in Washington state. When he reached the border he was asked if he had ever smoked marijuana. He chose to tell the truth, which in his ...

Article by Alexandra Sims, The Independant The decriminalisation of recreational cannabis use in California could be a milestone towards ending the drug’s prohibition nationally, it has been suggested. Alongside the presidential election, California will vote over whether to make recreational marijuana use legal on 8 November. If approved, as polls suggest it will be, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act ...

Article by Laurel Andrews, ADN.com Two Kenai Peninsula growers wasted no time delivering their product to the state’s first cannabis testing facility when it opened its doors at 8 a.m. Monday in Anchorage, one of the final steps before Alaskans can legally purchase marijuana. Leif Abel, co-owner of Greatland Ganja, walked into CannTest LLC right after the testing lab opened; he’d gotten up at 4 a.m. to make ...

Article by Allie Beckett, Marijuana.com It’s officially pumpkin season, so it’s time for every stoner’s fall favorite: The Pumpkin Bong This is the easiest tutorial on the web — follow these “three simple steps” and you’ll be smokin’ out of a pumpkin in 10 minutes or less! Most Pumpkin Bong how-to’s tell you to gut the entire pumpkin first, a time-consuming and messy ...

Article by Tyler Koslow, Merry Jane Now that Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa’s “The High Road” Summer Tour has come to close, the two rappers finally have the time to do what they love best, smoke up a storm and chill out. While the Doggfather has been conquering Canada’s cannabis industry and making a movie with his boy Jooba Loc, ...