Originally posted on Marijuanomics. A dispensary in SE Portland was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday. The Mt. Hood Wellness Center at 11121 SE Division St. was held up at 7:15PM by three black men in their 20s, one armed with a handgun. The suspects were pulled over approximately 15 minutes after the robbery for an unrelated traffic violation which spurred all three suspects to run ...

Written by WHTM staff for ABC27 News. CAMP HILL, Pa. (WHTM) – A central Pennsylvania man who inspired thousands in his battle to legalize medical marijuana has died. Randy Robertson was featured in two ABC27 News reports. In October, he said he chose to use medical cannabis illegally after a rare bile duct cancer spread to his lungs and liver. He was ...

Written by KATU.com staff. PORTLAND, Ore. — Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s staff set up a booth at this weekend’s Indo Cannabis Conference in Portland. It’s the first time a presidential candidate has purchased a booth at a marijuana expo, Johnson’s staff told KATU News. “These are people who got tired of waiting for the economy to fix itself for ...

Written by Ryan Yousefi for Uproxx. You know how your Mom always told you not to take candy from strangers? It turns out there really isn’t an expiration date on that sound advice. Two dozen concertgoers in northeast Ohio attending the Machine Gun Kelly headlined EST Fest recently confirmed for the rest of us that a scenario in which a mystery man ...

Written by Tyler Koslow for Merry Jane. Is there a better way to complement a nice weekend wake-and-bake than with some sizzling bacon fresh out of the frying pan? There is, by combining your favorite plant and favorite breakfast food into one tasty concoction. It may not seem like an obvious pairing, but bacon and cannabis actually go together quite ...

Written by Julia Wright for Civilized. It makes sense that America’s fastest-growing cash crop is getting its own, dedicated community market space. Farmer’s markets specifically geared toward cannabis growers have existed in some form in the United States since 2010 – and the ethos is similar to that of any regular, Saturday-morning farmer’s market, only considerably more fun and freewheeling ...

Written by Christopher Ingraham for The Washington Post. Since the landscape is changing, and marijuana continues to increase in popularity, research is needed to continue to examine if and how marijuana use may influence risk for unsafe sexual behavior,” they write in the July issue of the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior. To that end, Palamar and his colleagues recruited ...

Written by Gabrielle Karol for ABC 10. There are pairings and tastings for wine, beer and even coffee. Why not cannabis? That was the question Nug Run founder Nick Ocampo asked himself, after getting a medical marijuana prescription four years ago to help with his insomnia. Ocampo, who has been in a beer club since college, dove deep into research ...

Written by Lacey Louwagie for Courthouse News Services. FLANDREAU, S.D. (CN) — South Dakota criminally charged two employees of a Colorado-based consulting firm Wednesday for their role in attempting to launch a marijuana resort on Santee Sioux land. Matthew Hagen, of South Dakota, and Jonathan Hunt, of Colorado, are president and vice president of Monarch America, a consulting firm specializing ...

Written for New Approach Oregon.  Even those that don’t support legalizing cannabis were hard pressed to support the federal government threatening Oregon teen Devontre Thomas with a year long prison term over about a gram of marijuana. Drug War reform advocates and concerned citizens across the nation were frankly appalled of such a harsh sentence facing a nonviolent teenager in a state that ...