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Longmont Residents In An Uproar Over Proposed Legal Pot Farm
Sep 1st
LONGMONT, Colo. — The investor saw potential in the scrubby 67 acres tucked away amid multimillion dollar homes: He would turn the land into a vast pot farm and capitalize on the booming medical marijuana industry.
But Scott Mullner, a city councilman from Laramie, Wyo., infuriated his Colorado neighbors with his plan to place a marijuana farm in the midst of their idyllic Northern Colorado countryside. More >
California Chamber Of Commerce Argues Pot Law Would Allow Smoking At Work
Aug 13th
SAN FRANCISCO — Supporters and opponents of a ballot measure to legalize marijuana in California are dueling over the law’s possible effects on employers and the workplace.
The California Chamber of Commerce claimed in a legal analysis released Thursday that Proposition 19 would lead to more workplace accidents by forcing employers to let workers smoke pot on the job.
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‘Marijuana Megafarm’ Hidden In National Forest
Aug 12th
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Northern Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest is a vast, verdant getaway for hundreds of thousands of campers, hikers and anglers every year. But hidden within was a marijuana megafarm.
Investigators say a band of Hispanic men turned the forest’s southeastern tip into a giant pot farm, growing thousands of plants on remote plots, moving supplies along forgotten logging roads and buying supplies and ammunition at local stores.
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Colorado Medical Marijuana Entrepreneur Tries To Trademark The Word ‘Ganja’
Aug 10th
On April 1, the U.S. patent office announced a new trademark: “Processed plant matter for medicinal purposes, namely medical marijuana.” The category was killed three months later when the Wall Street Journal asked about it, but in the meantime ganjapreneurs nationwide filed some very interesting pot trademarks — with some of the most colorful coming from Colorado.
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Colorado medical marijuana surplus leaks to black market
Aug 1st
A loophole in Colorado’s medical marijuana rules means thousands of pounds of surplus marijuana are left to feed the black market here and in neighboring states, an I-News Network investigation has found.
A new state law, which took effect July 1, doesn’t clear up the legal haze surrounding this surplus.
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New Mexico’s Medical Pot Regulations Threatening Patients’ Access To Marijuana
Jul 17th
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Len Goodman can’t grow enough marijuana to keep up with demand.
He is one of just 11 growers approved by New Mexico to produce pot for all of the state’s 2,000 registered medical marijuana patients, and his customers routinely wipe out his supply. Once a strain of marijuana is harvested, dried and cured, he sends an announcement that patients can place orders, and the pot is usually gone in 24 hours.
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Can Marijuana Save The Springs? Tax Collections Taking Off
Jun 22nd
Sales of medical marijuana and marijuana-laced products in Colorado Springs — which topped $1.6 million in April alone — are generating tens of thousands of dollars in revenue for the city.
From January 2009 through April, Colorado Springs has seen a tenfold increase in monthly sales tax revenue from medical marijuana, from $4,000 to $40,000.
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Judge Clears Way For LA To Begin Marijuana Dispensary Crackdown
Jun 6th
LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries must close by Monday or face possible civil fines or criminal charges because they don’t comply with a new ordinance in Los Angeles.
Last-minute legal challenges from pot shop owners and patients seeking temporary restraining orders were denied Friday by Superior Court Judge James Chalfant, paving the way for officials to enforce the long-awaited law that will slash the number of dispensaries to somewhere between 70 and 130.
Court Won’t Hear Case On Marijuana Caregivers
Jun 3rd
DENVER — The court ruling last year that requires a primary caregiver in a medical marijuana context to do more than simply supply the herb will not be heard by the Colorado Supreme Court.
The high court on Tuesday declined to hear on appeal People v. Clendenin, a case in which the Court of Appeals upheld Longmont woman Stacy Clendenin’s conviction for cultivation and sale of marijuana. Clendenin argued it was legal for her to sell medical marijuana because she qualified as a caregiver under Colorado statute.
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Rasmussen: 49% In Colorado Support Marijuana Legalization
May 17th
A new telephone survey from Rasmussen Reports finds that 49% in Colorado support the idea of legalizing and taxing marijuana.
39% said they don’t support legalization.
The survey, conducted May 10, coincides with Governor Ritter’s signing of HB 1284, the contentious legislation that would place regulations on the burgeoning medical marijuana industry.
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