Instead of waiting as long as three months for access to medical marijuana dispensaries, prospective Nevada patients can now be approved on the same day thanks to a new Las Vegas-based Division of Public and Behavioral Health office. For medical marijuana officials, that’s a step in the right direction to establishing a healthy and safe
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A new survey of teen drug use in Colorado has served to help marijuana legalization advocates in Massachusetts push back against the claims of opponents that legalization will lead to higher rates of teenage pot consumption. The survey released Monday by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment found that 21.2 percent of high
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Pennsylvania was the 24th state to pass legislation approving medical marijuana. Its medical sales of the drug should eclipse $980 million by 2020, nearly four times the medical sales forecast in New York for that year, according to Washington, D.C.-based New Frontier. As many as 5,000 marijuana-related jobs could crop up statewide over the next
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Cannabis means Business. That’s what this conference’s theme is about. This year, the International Cannabis Association hosted the 2nd Annual Cannabis World Congress and Business Exposition in New York City where cannabis businesses from around the world can network, show off their products, and attend seminars and panel discussions about the burgeoning industry. The event
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Many of the products use ingredients derived from marijuana and hemp, but no marijuana was for sale. Instead, the product of choice was cannabidiol, better known as CBD, one of the non-psychoactive ingredients found in the cannabis plant that does not produce the “high” associated with marijuana’s better-known chemical ingredient, THC. CBD is legal in
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What does the software propose to do? It’s not growing or selling marijuana but simply tracking the product from seed to sale. The software is developed to help businesses be more competitive in terms of their IT infrastructure, as well as helping the government monitor the activities for tax purposes. “The software — a new
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