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  • D.C. Voters to Decide on Marijuana Use in November

    D.C. Voters to Decide on Marijuana Use in November

    D.C. residents will vote in November on whether to legalize marijuana use in the nation’s capital after elections officials decided Wednesday to place the question on the ballot. The three-member D.C. Board of Elections voted unanimously Wednesday morning to approve the ballot initiative, certifying that activists gathered the tens of thousands of voter signatures necessary to qualify for the Nov. 4 general election ballot. Several of those activists attended Wednesday’s meeting and cheered the vote, which moves the District closer to [...]

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  • Since Marijuana Legalization, Highway Fatalities in Colorado are at Near-Historic Lows

    Since Marijuana Legalization, Highway Fatalities in Colorado are at Near-Historic Lows

    Since Colorado voters legalized pot in 2012, prohibition supporters have warned that recreational marijuana will lead to a scourge of “drugged divers” on the state’s roads. They often point out that when the state legalized medical marijuana in 2001, there was a surge in drivers found to have smoked pot. They also point to studies showing that in other states that have legalized pot for medical purposes, we’ve seen an increase in the number of drivers testing positive for the drug who were involved [...]

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  • Former Prison May Be Converted Into A Marijuana Shop

    Former Prison May Be Converted Into A Marijuana Shop

    In a fitting encapsulation of how the tables have turned on U.S. marijuana policy, a former correctional facility in rural Colorado may one day be the site of a marijuana dispensary. Earlier this year, Nicholas Erker, an agricultural businessman from the region, purchased the High Plains Correctional Facility in Brush, Colorado, on the rural plains about 100 miles northeast of Denver. Erker has already put in a formal request to the Brush City Council to lift the moratorium on the [...]

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  • The Great Colorado Weed Experiment

    The Great Colorado Weed Experiment

    In January, Colorado defied the federal government and stepped with both feet into the world of legal recreational marijuana, where no state had gone before. For seven months Coloradans have been lawfully smoking joints and inhaling cannabis vapors, chewing marijuana-laced candies and chocolates, drinking, cooking and lotioning with products infused with cannabis oil. They are growing their own weed, making their own hash oil and stocking up at dispensaries marked with green crosses and words like “health,” “wellness” and “natural [...]

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  • Which College Athletes Smoke the Most Weed?

    Which College Athletes Smoke the Most Weed?

    Who are the biggest pothead college jocks? As it turns out, lacrosse players smoke more weed than any other type of college athlete, according to an NCAA survey. Their rate of use actually exceeds use among college students overall by over 15%. Across college-level baseball, basketball, football, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and wrestling, cannabis use ranges from 18.2-32.7% of players in 2013. But among lacrosse players, an astounding 46.3% reported using marijuana — that’s actually down from 49.4% in 2005. Alcohol appears [...]

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  • Imagine Pot Was Legal. How Would You Brand It?

    Imagine Pot Was Legal. How Would You Brand It?

    Woeful state budgets have relit the long-burning debate about pot legalization—couldn’t California rescue itself by making weed legal, then taxing it? Meanwhile, more than 40% of Americans now favor legalization–which is the highest portion since the 1980s; Nate Silver, at FiveThirtyEight, has watched the trends and estimates that popular support will become overwhelming in 15 years time. So Print, the hoary graphic-design magazine, posed a challenge to four top designers: How should the package of legal weed actually look? Each of them took [...]

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  • A Hugely Important Swing State Is Set to Legalize Medical Marijuana

    A Hugely Important Swing State Is Set to Legalize Medical Marijuana

      A massive majority of Floridians want weed legalized in their state, with a new Quinnipiac pollshowing that an overwhelming 88% of likely voters favor medical marijuana. With a highly anticipated medical marijuana voter initiative due in November, legalization is imminent in the fourth largest state in the country. Support for legalization is strong across all demographics, even traditionally conservative groups that are less likely to favor medical marijuana legalization. Just look at these numbers: – A stunning 80% of Republicans polled support [...]

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  • Why Cannabis Smokers’ Clubs are Flourishing in Barcelona

    Why Cannabis Smokers’ Clubs are Flourishing in Barcelona

    A faint smell of cannabis smoke hangs in the air as Susana relaxes on the sofa with her mother Juana and lights up a joint. Welcome to Pachamama – one of the hundreds of cannabis clubs that are making Barcelona rival Amsterdam as a smoker’s haven. With shelves full of books and board games, the place could be someone’s sitting room, except for a hookah pipe and photographs of hemp plants similar to the ones the club grows. “This is the safest [...]

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  • California Hemp Gets Rolling

    California Hemp Gets Rolling

    Green, twenty-foot-tall fields of research hemp might be waving in the Davis breeze by the next year in a startling breakthrough for California hemp advocates who have been working for decades to grow the plant. The California Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2013 combined with the 2014 federal farm bill has unlocked the possibility of legally growing the ancient food, fuel, and fiber crop. “It’s remarkable. I’m quite thrilled,” said longtime San Francisco hemp lawyer Patrick Goggin. “We had no [...]

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