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Boulder, CO — Anyone who thinks it would be easy to get rich selling marijuana in a state where it’s legal should spend an hour with Ravi Respeto, manager of the Farmacy, an upscale dispensary here that offers Strawberry Haze, Hawaiian Skunk and other strains of Cannabis sativa at up [...]

Maine — Seventeen groups hope to be among the first to open nonprofit medical marijuana dispensaries in Maine, state officials said Friday. Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services received 29 license applications from those groups before the deadline at 2 p.m. Friday. Some submitted multiple applications in hopes of operating [...]

Sitting across the table, at a Starbucks in San Clemente, Kandice Hawes is all business in black Capri pants, a fashionable top and a demure gray sweater. “Of course I smoke pot,” she says in a loud voice that expresses both surprise and amusement at the question. Holy smoke! I look around, worried someone [...]

Upstart Institute Aims To Serve A Growing Medical Marijuana Industry In a new twist on higher learning, a school that opened in Mira Mesa earlier this year aims to teach students how to open and operate medical marijuana collectives. The school, which opened six months ago, is the brainchild of Nicole Scott, a self-described soccer [...]

Like many people, Ben Fudge starts his day with a coffee and a smoke.  But, it’s not a nicotine hit he’s after when he lights up first thing in the morning. The Oshawa man has been using medical marijuana for years to help manage chronic pain, after being hit by a truck when he was [...]

Council Must Order Dispensaries Closed, Moratorium On New Outfits The medical marijuana situation has passed the point of ridiculousness and is now firmly in the realm of the tragic.  Unfortunately, all indications are that Montana can expect increasing problems with crime, violence and outrageous behavior until we finally get a handle on our medical marijuana [...]

Michigan — In a small second-story office on Main Street in Ann Arbor, Liberty Clinic is doing brisk business, selling medical marijuana for $360 to $400 an ounce. In just 3 1/2 months, 750 patients have come through its doors. In Lansing, Danny Trevino has expanded beyond his HydroWorld hydroponics store, [...]

New Jersey — Look at other states and use the best model to get New Jersey’s program running this year. In January, New Jersey became the 14th state to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes. It was an affirmation of what thousands of sufferers of cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and [...]

The Mary Jane’s Bud website claims the Thousand Oaks business is a legitimate medical marijuana provider with doorstep delivery service. But police say Mary Jane’s Bud owners Fabian Citraro, 32, and Amanda Citraro, 30, of Thousand Oaks allegedly broke the state’s medical marijuana law. “The business delivered to every [...]

A Charlevoix storefront sign placed in jest in 2009 proclaiming a marijuana shop was coming to town may have been the first sign of a coming debate over medicinal pot statewide. While that sign was a joke, communities creating zoning enclaves throughout Michigan to deal with a growing marijuana patient and producer [...]