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Article by Associated Press via Las Vegas Sun At risk of raising the ire of the White House, Colorado is on the brink of becoming the first state with licensed pot clubs. But the details of how these clubs will operate are as hazy as the underground clubs operating already. Denver officials are working on regulations to open a one-year ...

Article by The Kindland Cannabis-based manicures are quickly approaching commonplace uniqueness among the out-and-proud marijuana community. If you’re in the habit of following trending social-media hashtags, or looking at the headlines of pop-culture-media stories that report on trending social-media hashtags, then you know that elevated, edgy manicurists and some people who flaunt elevated, edgy manicures have made a thing of ...

Article by Emily Gray Brosious, Extract Americans for Safe Access (ASA) declared partial victory on Monday, Feb. 13, reporting the United States Drug Enforcement Administration had removed “factually inaccurate” information about marijuana from its website after months of legal pressure from the marijuana advocacy group. A DEA publication titled “The Dangers and Consequences of Marijuana Abuse” is no longer available on ...

Article by Zach Harris, Merry Jane Compared to states with perks such as dispensaries and legal carry limits, New York City’s weed market could be called the wild, wild east. You can cop on the corners of various neighborhoods, know a bodega owner who sells more than just Lays, or, as most millennials and folks with money in the city ...

Article by Jan Hefler, The Philadelphia Inquirer For the first time in the history of the seven-year-old New Jersey medical marijuana program, a health department panel will consider adding chronic pain and other ailments to the list of about a dozen conditions that qualify a patient to use cannabis in the state. A hearing is scheduled for Feb. 22 before ...

Article by Nicole O’Reilly, Hamilton Spectator Medical marijuana dispensary owners, employees and patients gathered outside city hall Wednesday in protest of the city’s crackdown against the businesses and to call for regulation. The rally was organized in response to “cease and desist” letters sent out by the city to 17 medical marijuana dispensaries last week. The letters cited zoning infractions ...

Article by Katie DeRosa, Times Colonist West Shore RCMP have once again moved to shut down Langford’s first and only pot shop, arresting two people and seizing marijuana on Wednesday. Mounties executed a search warrant at Green Tree Medical Dispensary at 108-688 Granderson Rd. “The storefront had illegally reopened its doors over the weekend contrary to municipal and federal regulations,” ...

Article by Kieran Delmont, Now Toronto There’s a reason why dumb crime stories are so entertaining: there’s something morally satisfying about the bad guys being the architect of their own demise. On January 30, two masked men entered Green Buddha Medicinals marijuana dispensary on College. One was armed with a revolver; the other carried a hockey bag. According to police, ...

Article by Grant Robertson, The Globe and Mail More than a million dollars of medical marijuana has been destroyed so far amid the fallout from a tainted cannabis scare hitting the government-regulated sector, as patients’ fears grow that Health Canada has no way of knowing how big the problem actually is. Canopy Growth Corp., which recently acquired Mettrum Ltd., said ...

Article by David Brown, Lift Health Canada’s new program that allows for authorized patients to grow their own cannabis for medical purposes is seeing a growing interest from Canadians. André Gagnon, Media Relations Officer for Health Canada, told Lift in an update today that as of February 9th of this year, there are 2,554 individuals with an active Health Canada ...