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The Rhode Island Fire Marshall has said that he has "serious concerns" about marijuana growing facilities in Rhode Island.

State Fire Marshall John Chartier spoke with GoLocal following a five alarm fire on Kinsley Avenue that was put out on Tuesday, where the Cannabis Producer Association of New England (CPA) had been located. 

Chartier said as an investigation is underway that he couldn't speak to the cause of the fire that began Monday night that required mutual aid from additional Rhode Island towns and injured one firefighter, but he did address his concerns about marijuana growing facilities in general in Rhode Island the state.  

Cannabis Growers Federation of Uruguay (Fenac-Uruguay) made its concern about incidents and security issues that are suffering from thefts and robberies to keep marijuana plants public. "We talked specifically the wave of insecurity that come to be targeted given the proximity of our crops, and the consequent increase of the phenomenon called 'cogollleros'," says a statement from the Federation.

For Rey, the announcement that Tabaré Vázquez said there was no rush to sell cannabis in pharmacies, has a direct impact with security problems faced by growers.

"If you steal flowers and plants it is because some people buy them. The first thing to do is stop buying plants irregularly. The delay in sales at pharmacies is fundamental.

The Florida Cannabis Action Network is now developing a 2016 voter initiative to legalize marijuana, based on the likelihood that the Florida Legislature will be unwilling to create a comprehensive medical-only program in coming weeks.

That could mean that there is both a medical marijuana amendment and an adult-use amendment on the Florida ballot during the presidential election-year ballot.

Unlike two recently filed but restrictive medical marijuana legislative bills and unlike the revised medical marijuana amendment possibly headed for the November 2016 ballot, the proposed Florida-Can amendment would open use of the plant.

Cannabis has been legal for recreational use in the US states of Washington and Colorado for more than a year now. Voters have also backed legalisation in Alaska and Oregon, and are facing a new challenge - how to turn an illegal drug into a legitimate business. Alastair Leithead has been to Seattle - to see how legal cannabis is going, and over the border to Salem, Oregon - to see how they are planning to implement it.

Mississauga hopes to become one of the first municipalities in Canada to pass specific bylaws governing medical marijuana grow-ops.

City council is set to vote Wednesday on legislation that would require grow-ops to follow certain regulations in terms of odour and safety and be regularly inspected. Currently, the federal government dictates where grow-ops can set up and what features the facilities need.

The medical marijuana industry is worth billions and is expected to grow dramatically in the coming years.

Mississauga Coun. Ron Starr said the goal is get some control over grow-ops and make them blend into the community better.

"If you have one of these beside you in an industrial building you'll not even know it’s there," Starr said.

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Professor Douglas Berman teaches a class about marijuana, so he has heard the jokes. He even allows a little pot humor in the classroom. But he isn’t especially fond of the nickname his class has picked up:

Weed 101.

“It’s a lot more than that,” Berman said about his class at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law.

Flippant attitudes toward the marijuana debate are in part what inspired him to start teaching “ Marijuana Law, Policy and Reform,” which aims to cut through claims on both sides of the marijuana debate.

Like the California Gold Rush of the 19th century, the legalized marijuana trade is attracting industry hopefuls nationwide with great expectations for working in this booming nascent sector.

If federal legalization takes place, U.S. retail marijuana sales revenues could reach $35 billion by 2020, surpassing the NFL, according to a report by GreenWave Advisors. Alternatively, if federal legalization doesn’t take place by 2020, GreenWave Advisors predicts revenue to climb to $21 billion.

Ian James, architect of a proposal to legalize pot in Ohio, said it stemmed from a simple notion: "Let's take this from the tie-dye to the suit-and-tie approach to marijuana."

James, CEO of the Strategy Network, a Columbus political consulting firm, turned to Cincinnati lawyer Chris Stock for help. Would Stock draft a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would outline how pot would be regulated for personal and medical use? "I've never used marijuana in my life," Stock told James. "I'm not sure I want to be involved." But he relented.