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Article by Graeme Frisque, Orangeville Banner The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police is already preparing for upcoming changes to Canada’s cannabis laws. The association recently sent two of its members, including Orangeville police chief Wayne Kalinski, on a three-day tour to Colorado to research the legalization process there. Colorado became one of a handful of States to legalize the ...

Article by Don Fraser, St. Catharines Standard Ontario should open legalized recreational pot to regulated private-sector distributors and retailers, says Niagara’s largest business chamber. The Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce has joined with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) in appealing to Premier Kathleen Wynne to reject a LCBO-based model for that distribution, and allow for a conditional free market. ...

Article by Deborah Wilson, CBC News The City of Victoria has joined Vancouver in an unfamiliar role: regulating marijuana storefronts. The Storefront Cannabis Retailer Rezoning Policy received final approval from City Council Thursday night. As of Sept. 23, all pot dispensaries in the capital city must obtain a $5,000 business license and pass a complex rezoning process, at a cost of $7,500, in order to operate legally. ...

Article by Leada Gore, AL.com Four states – Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska –have legalized the retail sale of marijuana. One of the main reasons cited by each state for legalizing pot is the tax revenue generated by marijuana sales. Retail marijuana sales started in Colorado 2014, bringing in $56 million the first year and $113 million in 2015. It’s ...

Article by Gus Lubin, Business Insider US search interest for weed rose about 75% from 2004 to 2016, according to Google Trends. This is just one more sign of a sea change in popular opinion about weed. Just recently, a Lancet study of US adults from 2002 to 2014 found an increase in usage from 10.4% to 13.3% and an increase in people perceiving no risk ...

Article by The Associated Press via News 1130 Operators of a Maryland county fair are shutting down a vendor suspected of selling candies laced with THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. Great Frederick Fair Executive Assistant Karen Crum says directors voted to remove the booth Wednesday, a day after sheriff’s deputies seized lollipops, gummies and other sweets that field-tested positive ...

Article by Adrian D. Garcia, Denverite The owners of Denver’s Simply Pure marijuana dispensary want to stand out in the white, male-dominated marijuana industry. That’s not hard to do considering they’re among the few people of color nationwide to head a cannabis company. Wanda James and her husband Scott Durrah became one of the first African-American couples in Colorado to own a recreational dispensary in ...

Article by Robbie Reynold, WAFB LSU is moving forward with plans to grow medical marijuana for the state. Some members of the Baton Rouge Rotary Club were making pot jokes Wednesday afternoon, but LSU Ag Center Vice President Bill Richardson was all business. Richardson is leading the LSU Ag Center’s medical marijuana project. The project was started after the Louisiana ...

Article by Kristin J. Bender, The Associated Press via Global News Two women have been arrested on charges of holding four brothers captive at an illegal marijuana farm in Northern California and forcing them to work there for six months, police said Wednesday. The men told police they ran away in July from the secluded pot-growing operation in the small ...

Article by Amanda Siebert, The Georgia Straight She’s a business owner, a fierce naturist, and a baker extraordinaire: Watermelon, also known as Mary Jean Dundson, has been a fixture of Vancouver’s underground marijuana scene for nearly 20 years. On the day I meet Watermelon at Wreck Beach to talk the best of pot, she happens to be celebrating a milestone ...