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Tests show THC content in cannabis edibles is inconsistent
As one of the largest producers of marijuana-infused edibles in Colorado, Dr. J's Hash Infusion makes chocolates, caramels and candies. But many of the company's products contain only a minute fraction of the THC promised on Dr. J's labels, according to independent tests organized by The Denver Post.
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NSFW Lebanon's Hash Farm Wars
Lebanon's feuding militias are still using drugs as a source of income. The Lebanese government is cracking down on smaller cannabis farmers, while drug lords continue to act with impunity.
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How Vape Pens Could Threaten the Pot Legalization Movement
Not everyone is going to welcome an innovation that facilitates getting high in public places—like high school hallways.
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Alabama Just Approved Cannabis Extracts For Epileptic Kids | VICE News
In an unexpected show of unity, both chambers of Alabama's Legislature unanimously passed “Carly’s Law,” which the governor will sign.
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Colorado Court Okays Retroactive Reversal of Marijuana Convictions
When President Obama gave the green light for states to set their own marijuana laws, he set in motion what is becoming unprecedented and much-needed change in our country’s antiquated and harshly counterproductive drug laws. Not only has Colorado and Washington State succesfully legalized recreational use of marijuana, other states are now exploring with similar legislation.
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No, legalizing medical marijuana doesn’t lead to crime, according to actual crime stats
Opponents of medical marijuana envision all kinds of insidious ways that legalizing the drug might lead to crime. Make marijuana more accessible, and more people will use it. If more people use it, more will tumble through the weed "gateway" to cocaine, or worse. Those people will then engage in crime to fund their hard-drug habits, or violence in the service of getting the stuff.
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Pot-smoking style linked to addiction risk
Marijuana smokers' behavior is more important than the potency of their pot or how much of the psychoactive ingredient THC they take in for predicting who will become dependent, according to a small new study. Researchers have debated whether smokers of high-potency cannabis varieties are at greater risk of addiction because they get more THC, or if they compensate for the pot's strength by using or inhaling less of it.
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How to Make THC-Infused Cannabis Capsules At Home
Learn how to make edible cannabis oil (with coconut oil as a base), and how to insert your THC-infused oil into individual capsules for simple storage and dosing. No solvents! This tutorial is safe and easy to follow even if you've never made edibles before.
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Colorado legalized marijuana tax revs ahead of expectations: Moody's
Colorado, the first state to tax legalized recreational marijuana sales, expects to bring in an estimated $98 million in revenue this year, exceeding the state's original expectations by 40 percent. The state began levying sales and excise taxes on recreational marijuana on January 1, 2014.
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Marijuana Vending Machine Unveiled in Colorado
It dispenses pot for medicinal, not recreational, use. A marijuana vending machine debuted in Colorado over the weekend, The Denver Post‘s marijuana news blog The Cannabist reports.
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If you buy a scale on Amazon, the site may think you’re a drug dealer
People use small digital scales for all sorts of things. Measuring cooking ingredients, for instance. Jewelry makers and sellers use them. There are plenty of legal uses for mini digital scales. Amazon’s customers appear to be purchasing mini scales for more scandalous reasons than measuring flour or gemstones. As a Reddit user discovered, Amazon will recommend drug-related paraphernalia if a shopper purchases a small digital scale.
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German Law Professors Are Rebelling Against Their Country's Drug Laws
Last week, 122 German law professors signed a petition demanding the decriminalization of drugs and the legalization of marijuana. The current anti-drug legislation was written in 1981 and is badly outdated, the professors say—though locking people up for marijuana is no longer a priority for cops, the petition's signatories think that there's still too much time being spent charging drug users with crimes.
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3 Months Later, Here's What Denver Looks Like Since Legalizing Marijuana
Three months following Colorado's decision to legalize the production, sale, possession and use of recreational marijuana — a vote that Denver city officials including Mayor Michael Hancock, among others, fought kicking and screaming — guess what's happened to Denver crime rates in 2014?
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High in the sky: Drones spot pot farms so criminals can rob them
Fans of The Wire will remember how the fictional Omar Little made a livelihood off robbing drug dealers. Now imagine how much easier his job would have been if he had his own eye in the sky. While police departments in the US are now starting to adopt drone technology for surveillance, some criminals in England have been turning the technology to their advantage to target victims—specifically, marijuana growers.
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Just Add Pot: The Hydroponic Farming Company Ready to Grow Weed in 48 Hours
As soon as the next state legalizes the drug, at least.
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Colorado Symphony Announces ‘Classical Cannabis’ Series
Now, Snoop Dogg isn't the only musician inviting you to "smoke weed every day". Trying to crawl out of a $1.2 million cash deficit, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is rolling out a new series of concerts aimed at attracting a younger, somewhat more red-eyed audience.
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Uruguay leader calls Colorado pot law 'a fiction'
Uruguay has finally released its rules for the legal marijuana market it is launching this year, detailing how the government plans to get very involved in every aspect of the business.
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Uruguay sets cost of marijuana at less than a $1 a gram
Uruguay has set the price for pot at less than a dollar a gram, as it lays out rules for the government-regulated sale of marijuana in a daring, closely watched social experiment.
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Medical marijuana seen to have dramatic effect on symptom relief
Before buying cannabis at South Jersey's only medical-marijuana dispensary, patients must circle one of six animated faces that stare out from a clipboard. The row of smiling, wincing, frowning, and sobbing cartoon faces is being used to rank the degree of pain that patients experience due to cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and several other conditions the state deems treatable by cannabis.
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Immigrants Are Being Kept as Slaves in European Grow Operations
In early 2012, a woman approached a Vietnamese grandmother and offered her a stable job in Europe as a nanny. The grandmother accepted, delighted at the possibility of earning enough money to pay off her heavy debts and support her family. But she had been tricked. Instead of taking care of children, she says she was kept as a slave in a marijuana-growing operation on the outskirts of Dublin and forced to care for the weed plants.
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