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Arizona Packaging Issue Prompts Marijuana Condiment Recall

An Arizona-based medical marijuana dispensary is recalling four weed-infused condiments due to packaging and pathogen concerns.

Before putting “Marynara” tomato sauce on your pasta, make sure it hasn’t been tainted. A recent article from AZ Central says that four marijuana-infused food items available at a variety of Arizona dispensaries have been recalled including: Marynara Tomato Sauce, Dank’s Redhot Sauce, Funny Mustard, and Spicy Highnz Ketchup.

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Delay in Tax System Imperils California's Rush to Govern Cannabis Economy

The regulatory and taxing system that will be needed to govern California’s newly legalized marijuana industry may not be in place by a key deadline next year, imperiling the state’s rush to oversee a booming $7 billion cannabis economy. 

Multiple state agencies, including the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation, are scrambling to develop rules for licensing and taxing cannabis cultivators and other businesses in the industry.

But State Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg is among those concerned that the legal framework will not be in place by the Jan. 1 deadline set by Proposition 64, the marijuana legalization measure approved by voters three months ago.

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Spirits Are Low Among Those Sentenced To Life For Marijuana Amid Trump Administration

It’s been 15 years since Craig Cesal was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a non-violent marijuana conspiracy offense, and still he hears one question more than any other: “Who did [you] kill?”

“Every institution I go to, I get questioned by a bunch of officers who ask me if it’s true that I’m serving life for marijuana. Even the people who run the federal prisons are surprised by that,” Cesal, a first-time offender, told Civilized during a 15-minute phone call from the federal correctional institution in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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California’s Favorite Cannabis Delivery Startup Has 2016’s Weed Trends Hidden in Its Sales Data

Gorilla Glue #4 and vaporizer cartridges have Eaze drivers busy in the Golden State.

With recreational use already legal, and a more open retail market coming next year, California has one of, if not the biggest cannabis market in the world. To serve that market, weed delivery startup Eaze came on the scene in 2014, and has since amassed a clientele of 25,000 medical customers. Because no central marijuana database or strict regulation exists yet, a look at Eaze’s sales date and a survey of 5,000 users - or their “State of Cannabis” report - gives some much needed insight into the buying habits of California’s medical marijuana patients.

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Is It Legal to Mail Marijuana Between States? Here's What Federal and State Laws Say.

Is it legal to mail marijuana across state lines?

Short answer: no.

Longer answer: absolutely not.

Mailing pot across state lines is an incredibly bad idea, according to Erik Altieri, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. “There is no situation, whether from a legal state to a nonlegal state or a legal state to another legal state, in which mailing marijuana is legal,” Altieri wrote in an email to Mic.

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Claims to Make a Fortune off Medical Marijuana Stocks in Florida

The world wide web has turned into an advertising platform as companies are able to buy space to market their product or products.

It's going a step further though, as sponsored ads seem to be using Florida's passage of medical marijuana as a way to make money. 

This advertisement popped up on the Yahoo website in hopes of getting you to look into 'the Green Gold Rush.'

The three sentences point out, "If you've never invested, now's the time to start....This is the last legal way for the little guy to grow rich...Learn how - See the details here."

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Colorado Sells More Than $1 Billion of Marijuana in 2016

Newly released state figures show Colorado's marijuana dispensaries sold $1.3 billion worth of recreational and medical pot in 2016.

The Denver Post reports that the Colorado Department of Revenue released tax data Thursday showing the third straight year for growth since the state legalized recreational marijuana sales.

Last year's total pot sales were up from about $996 million in 2015 and $699 million the previous year.

According to the 2016 data, recreational marijuana accounted for $875 million of the sales total, while $438 million of medical pot was sold.

Colorado brought in close to $200 million in tax and fees revenue last year.

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Alaska Seizes CBD Products From Marijuana Stores

Enforcement officers with the Alcohol and Marijuana Control office seized CBD oil from several marijuana stores on Thursday.

Sara Chambers, acting director of the office, wrote in a release the oil fell under the state regulation definition of marijuana. Stores selling the products that hadn't gone through the state's testing and packaging requirements were violating state law, she wrote.

CBD, which stands for cannabidiol, is a compound found in both cannabis and hemp. It's not psychoactive, so it doesn't get people high, unlike THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.

CBD oil is often used for pain management and has been researched in treating a wide range of illnesses. It can be made into a variety of products, like oils and salves.

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09
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What will be AG Jeff Sessions' first move on marijuana?

A new lawman has come to town, and the marijuana industry could be in for major upheaval.

But just how much change Attorney General Jeff Sessions might impart — and how quickly he’ll address federal marijuana enforcement — remain the multibillion-dollar question.

“It’s not like you could see agents come into every storefront in the United States tomorrow and deal with this. That’s not a reality,” drug policy expert John Hudak said Wednesday.

But if Sessions rescinds the 2013 Cole Memo that established federal guidelines for marijuana enforcement, “It’s difficult for policy makers. It’s difficult for elected officials.”

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Microbial Detection Standards for Cannabis Need to Change to Protect Patients

On February 7, a cancer patient in northern California died from a fungal infection that authorities suspect was caused by the inhalation of contaminated medical cannabis.

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