Parties, discounts mark start of retail marijuana sales in Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. — Discounts on pot, free food for folks with the munchies and live music will usher in a historic day for Oregon and for marijuana advocates across the country Thursday, as recreational...
View ArticleOre. pot shops celebrate start of recreational sales
Portland, Ore. — Discounts on pot, free food for folks with the munchies and live music will usher in a historic day for Oregon and for marijuana advocates across the country on Thursday, as...
View ArticleOregon Pot Dispensaries Sell Over $11 Million In Just 5 Days
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Retailers sold more than $11 million of marijuana during Oregon's first week of legal recreational sales, outpacing the early business done in other states that have legalized pot,...
View ArticleA marijuana grower found guilty of rape has divided pot country
Carmen, an alleged victim of human trafficking, was taken into custody at this remote house and marijuana farm in Willits, Calif. The grower, Baldemar Alvarez, says he never abused her and planned to...
View ArticleBeing Moody: Growing pot next door to Congress
Washington (CNN)The latest Washington showdown isn't over budgets or confirmation hearings -- it's over pot. Marijuana has been legal in the District of Columbia for nearly two months now, despite...
View ArticleWe’re Legalizing Weed Wrong
Voters in five states will decide on Tuesday whether to allow the sale of cannabis to all adults. Another four will vote on legalizing it for medical use. If all of these measures pass, nine states...
View ArticleHemp, Inc. Receives NuAxon Super Critical CO2 Hemp Extractor at Plant in...
SPRING HOPE, NC, May 31, 2017 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- SPRING HOPE, NC--(Marketwired - May 31, 2017) - Hemp, Inc. (otc pink:HEMP) executives are pleased to announce that its CO2 Supercritical...
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Summary Neal Scott may die in prison. A 49-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Neal had cycled in and out of prison for drug possession over a number of years. He said he was never offered treatment...
View ArticleWhite House Announces Additional Commitments to the American Business Act on...
(Source: President of the United States) Today, the White House will announce additional commitments from 73 companies from across the American economy who are joining the American Business Act on...
View ArticleRebranding Pot: How Squares Are Sparking The Next Massive Industry
Five years ago, Brendan Kennedy had to psych himself for a tough conversation with his wife, Maria. Until that point, Kennedy had taken a pretty straightforward path for a tech entrepreneur. He’d...
View Article'Commercialization won out': will legal marijuana be the next big tobacco?
As the legal pot movement steams ahead, opponents argue the cannabis industry may be little better than cigarette companies in their pursuit of profit...
View ArticleAP News Guide: Oregon weed legal soon, but not legally sold
Reprints + - FILE - In this November, 2014 file photo, a sample of cannabis is on display at Shango Premium Cannabis dispensary in Portland, Ore. Last November, Oregon voted to make recreational...
View ArticleHemp, Inc. to Plant Over 550 Acres of CBD-Rich Hemp Plants
SPRING HOPE, NC, Jun 08, 2017 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- SPRING HOPE, NC--(Marketwired - Jun 8, 2017) - Hemp, Inc. (otc pink:HEMP) announced today that its farming associates, who are licensed in the...
View ArticleRecreational marijuana is now legal in California
Voters in California passed a ballot initiative on Election Day to legalize marijuana for recreational use, ending the prohibition on pot. Proposition 64 allows adults over the age of 21 to use,...
View ArticleCalifornia, Medical Cannabis and Killing the American Dream
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. –1 John 4:20 I...
View ArticleHow Growing Pot Takes a Serious Ecological Toll
Click here for reuse options! If legal weed is voted in, care must be taken to protect the local environment. Twenty years after legalizing the use of medical marijuana, California voters will decide...
View ArticleDreaming of the billion-dollar high in California’s marijuana green rush
Startups are already cashing in on the legal trade in medicinal cannabis. But now Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors are eyeing a bigger payday as decriminalisation of the drug for recreational...
View ArticleThe best pot shops in every state where weed is legal
Americans spent over $5 billion on legal medical and recreational marijuana in 2015. That's more than what they dropped on Doritos, Cheetos, and Funyuns combined. These transactions didn't go down in...
View ArticleOregon pot stores sell more than $11 million in first 5 days
SALEM, Ore. — Retailers sold more than $11 million of marijuana during Oregon's first week of legal recreational sales, outpacing the early business done in other states that have legalized pot,...
View ArticleCover story: Oregon and marijuana's 'Wild West'
Business is good. So says , Northwest sales manager for Mosman Machinery, a Grass Valley, California company that sells the Triminator, which automates the marijuana trimming process. Using a...
View ArticleOregon marijuana shops begin sales to recreational users
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Oregon marijuana shops began selling marijuana Thursday for the first time to recreational users, marking a big day for the budding pot industry. Some of the more than 250...
View ArticleRecreational pot users score bags of bud at Oregon shops
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Eager night owls looking to score some of the first recreational pot in Oregon bought up baggies of bud at shops that opened early Thursday, some taking advantage of door-buster...
View ArticleParties, discounts to mark start of pot sales in Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Discounts on pot, free food for folks with the munchies and live music will usher in a historic day for Oregon and for marijuana advocates across the country Thursday, as...
View ArticleMarijuana's legalization fuels black market in other states
Marijuana smugglers are growing and shipping vast quantities of illicit cannabis across the USA. They’re mailing it, driving it and, in at least one case, flying it around in skydiving planes. They’re...
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