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18 Jun

Featured, International News, Marijuana News, Medical Marijuana

Can marijuana help mitigate America’s opioid crisis?

• June 18, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Members of the President Donald Trump's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis will hold their first meeting toda...

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18 Jun

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Medical Marijuana Dispensary Owner Sentenced To Prison

• June 18, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — The owner of a Montana medical marijuana dispensary network has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspi...

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18 Jun

Featured, International News, Marijuana News, Medical Marijuana

First-time marijuana users in college peak in 3 years

• June 18, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Marijuana is the most highly used illicit drug in the United States. The young adults and teens are even more enticed by marijuana. The...

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18 Jun

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Limited research hobbles knowledge of marijuana’s pros and cons

• June 18, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

In January, a U.S. advisory committee concluded that the lack of scientific information about marijuana and its chemical cousins, calle...

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18 Jun

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Marijuana grow operation found while fighting fire

• June 18, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

A damaged multiple units at a South Lyon apartment building and exposed an marijuana grow operation in an adjoining apartment early Fri...

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18 Jun

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Sessions wants flexibility to prosecute Iowa medical marijuana programs

• June 18, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

DES MOINES | The federal government’s top attorney wants the freedom to prosecute states — such as Iowa — with medical marijuana pr...

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18 Jun

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Wins, Losses and Possible Delays for Recreational Marijuana

• June 18, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Saturday, July 1. That’s the day that adult recreational marijuana sales are set to begin in Nevada, when anyone over 21 can walk into ...

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18 Jun

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Task force to examine medical marijuana in Tennessee

• June 18, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

COCKE COUNTY - A task force consisting of state senators and representatives will soon take a harder look at issues around medical mari...

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18 Jun

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Massachusetts Senate seeks to tweak, rather than completely overhaul, state’s new marijuana law

• June 18, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Eyeing a June 30 deadline to get a bill to Gov. Charlie Baker's desk, the Massachusetts Senate on Friday released a proposal that attem...

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18 Jun

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Pot will soon be legal in Vegas, but don’t even think about lighting up on the Strip

• June 18, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Just in time for the long Independence Day weekend, recreational marijuana will become legal July 1 in Las Vegas and all of Nevada. ...

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