Posts by Shelby Pierce

27 Apr

Featured, International News, Law and Politics, Marijuana News

California Set To Harmonize Recreational And Medical Marijuana Laws

• April 27, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

With passage of the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (“MCRSA”) in 2015, California took a huge step towards comprehensively r...

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27 Apr

Featured, International News, Marijuana News

2 arrested monday for possesing and illegaly growing marijuana

• April 27, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

HOWARD TOWNSHIP, MI - Two men were arrested Monday for possessing and illegally growing marijuana in Howard Township. Detectives exe...

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27 Apr

Featured, International News, Marijuana News

Ex-Cons Fight To Work In legalizaion Marijuana Industry

• April 27, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

BOSTON (CBS) – “We cannot overprice and overtax the legalization of marijuana, we can’t, we don’t want the black market to continue to ...

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27 Apr

Featured, International News, Marijuana News

DENVER-Colorado’s marijuana industry sets sales records in early 2017

• April 27, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

DENVER — Colorado's marijuana industry — one of the most mature in the nation — continues to thrive, posting record-setting sales figur...

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27 Apr

Featured, International News, Marijuana News

Up in Smoke: Marijuana Activists Cuffed After Lighting up at U.S. Capitol on monday

• April 27, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two dozen red-hatted protesters gathered on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on Monday to call for easing fed...

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27 Apr

Featured, International News, Marijuana News

Medical marijuana has been prescribed to 11-year-old boy on the NHS in first case of its kind

• April 27, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Medicinal marijuana has been prescribed on the NHS to an 11-year-old boy in what is believed to be the first case of its kind. Billy...

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27 Apr

Featured, International News, Marijuana News

Four men in custody over possession of marijuana

• April 27, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Four men, all from Savaii were taken into custody for possession of narcotics last week. They were apprehended at the Mulifanua Whar...

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27 Apr

Featured, International News, Marijuana News

lowa Legislatures announced an agreement to expand lowa’s broader medical marijuana law

• April 27, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

DES MOINES — Early Saturday morning, legislators announced an agreement to expand Iowa’s soon-to-expire law that merely decriminalized ...

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27 Apr

Featured, International News, Marijuana News

West Virginia [WV] Sales and Use, Miscellaneous Taxes: Medical Marijuana Tax Imposed

• April 27, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

West Virginia has imposed a medical cannabis (marijuana) tax at the rate of 10% of the gross receipts received by a grower/processor on...

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27 Apr

Featured, International News, Marijuana News, Medical Marijuana

A teen died after being denied a lung transplant because he smoked marijuana use

• April 27, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

A Utah man died after being denied a lung transplant due to his past marijuana use. Riley Hancey, 19, of Park City, Utah, had ...

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