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Tue
27
Sep

Medical Marijuana Fight Heats up in Florida

Full page of mailer takes aim at attorney John Morgan.

The campaign to defeat Amendment 2, the medical marijuana question on November’s ballot, is heating up.

The “No on 2” campaign is telling the same story it told two years ago, when the amendment lost by a bare margin.

And now, thousands of slick brochures are showing up in mailboxes across Florida, telling horror stories about medical marijuana. Last time, the initiative lost by fewer than three points.

Tue
27
Sep

The VQ is Leading the Way in Convenient Vaping Technology

Society has become so reliant on some technology, such as cell phones, that very few people forget to take theirs with them when they leave the house. However, additional items – like a vaporizer, for instance – may not always be at the top of the “need to grab” priority list. These kind of common, daily annoyances and inconveniences inspire the birth of brilliant ideas – and in this case, that brilliant idea is a vaporizer that is built into a phone case and stays charged even while you’re out and about. Thus the creative minds behind this idea, Vaportronix, LLC, launch the first of its kind, iPhone case vaporizer called the VQ.

Tue
27
Sep

Colorado Marijuana Products Must Come With Warning Labels Starting Oct. 1

Beginning Oct. 1, all new medical and retail marijuana packaging must feature the new universal symbol on the front. 

Colorado marijuana products will soon have labels aimed to keep the drug out of the hands of children.

Starting Saturday, the weed products must feature a diamond-shaped symbol with this statement on the packaging: "Contains Marijuana. Keep out of the reach of children."

According to a news release Monday, the state's Department of Public Health and Environment and Department of Revenue's Marijuana Enforcement Division have teamed up "to educate Coloradans about the rules, designed to promote public health and safety, raise awareness and help people more accurately identify marijuana products."

Mon
26
Sep

Google Searches For ‘Cannabis’ Have Skyrocketed Thanks To New Marijuana Laws

Recent Google data proves that legalization measures have caused an uptick in public curiosity regarding marijuana.

According to Business Insider, Google searches for “cannabis” increased approximately 75% from 2004 to 2016.

Dozens of states legalized medical marijuana within that time frame, while four passed measures legalizing marijuana for recreational use.

The state with the highest amount of “cannabis” searches was Colorado, followed by Washington, Maine and Michigan.

In terms of metro areas, the most “cannabis” searches were entered in the coastal, Northern California city of Eureka.

Mon
26
Sep

Jack in the Box named fast-food restaurant that could benefit most from legal marijuana

Next time Harold and Kumar get hungry, they should go to Jack in the Box.

The burger-slinging fast-food joint is poised to benefit the most if ballot initiatives to legalize recreational cannabis use pass in November, according to a report by analysts at Cowen and Co.

Mon
26
Sep

Legalizing Marijuana: It Changes Policing, But May Leave Racial Disparities

Lake Merritt in Oakland, Calif., is a mecca for joggers and families out with their strollers. Along with the smell of sweat and goose poop, weed is an equally present aroma.

Police seemingly take a "light up and let live" attitude here. But Nashanta Williams, who's out walking her dog, says it's not like this in other parts of the city.

"I have been pulled over and been told that my car smells like marijuana and put on the sidewalk and had my vehicle searched," Williams says. "And I felt like they were fishing."

Mon
26
Sep

Jill Stein And Gary Johnson: Better Candidates For Marijuana Legalization Than Clinton Or Trump

In a presidential election featuring two candidates that have more haters than supporters, third-party candidates like Jill Stein of the Green Party and Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party have a unique opportunity to have their voices heard. More and more voters are having trouble supporting Republican Party candidate Donald Trump and Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton. And while Stein and Johnson have drastically different views on important issues like the environment and the economy, there’s one issue they appear to agree on: the legalization of marijuana. Whether seen as an issue of liberty or an issue of liberalism, both of the third-party candidates have favorable views on marijuana that both Clinton and Trump fail to recognize.

Mon
26
Sep

Marijuana Could Be the Key to Overcoming America's Opioid Epidemic

America has a problem.

Though prescription drugs are designed to help patients, one class of prescription drugs known as opioids, which are commonly prescribed to relieve severe or chronic pain, have been doing the opposite in certain instances. During periods of extended use, a person can become dependent on opioid medications, leading to a host of possible complications, including overdoses that can lead to death.

Fri
23
Sep

Friday Funny: Hillary Clinton on Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis

Episode 20: Hillary Clinton sits down with Zach Galifianakis for her most memorable interview yet. Hilarious video - thanks to the reader who sent this in. Happy Friday and have a great weekend!

Fri
23
Sep

How Scotts Miracle-Gro is branching into cannabis & urban gardens


Scotts Miracle-Gro built a multi-billion dollar business by being a market leader across several categories of the lawn-and-garden industry.

The problem? Those categories weren’t growing all that fast.

To augment sales, Scotts took a page out of Big Beer’s playbook and crafted a wholly owned subsidiary called the Hawthorne Gardening Co. to create and capture portions of the booming urban gardening and hydroponics market — an industry bolstered by home-growers of cannabis.

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