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In Contrast to Earlier Results, Survey Finds That 48% of Likely Voters Are Against Prop.  19 Californians who intend to vote in November narrowly oppose Proposition 19, which would make the state the first to legalize marijuana possession and sales, according to a recent survey. The Field Poll found that 48% of likely voters [...]

Medical marijuana experts from around the United States and the local vicinity will be in Kalamazoo this weekend to discuss a wide variety of topics related to what organizers call “Cannabusiness.” The two-day “Science and Compassionate Care Seminar,” put on at the Radisson Plaza Hotel & Suites in downtown Kalamazoo by 420 University, will feature [...]

The pot is growing, not burning, but still the odor from a medical marijuana business on Montana Avenue is bothering the neighboring business owners. Mike and Alexandra Gregory, who own Oxford Antiques at 2411 Montana Ave., started complaining in late May that a medical marijuana operation on the ground floor of neighboring The Yellowstone Hotel [...]

Legalizing pot may drop the price of a marijuana cigarette to as little as $1.50 in California, but taxing weed may create a whole new black market, according to a new RAND Corp.  study. The six-month study, released Wednesday by the renowned Santa Monica-based think tank, provides fuel for both sides of the debate over [...]

The City of Pitt Meadows is making sure people who grow medical marijuana for others can’t set up within its borders. Council gave two readings to an amendment to its land use bylaw Tuesday.  The change prohibits growing the plant for medicinal use in residential and agricultural zones. The city is one of the first [...]

A man who uses medical marijuana to treat symptoms of an inoperable brain tumor and cancer has filed a lawsuit claiming he was wrongfully fired from a Walmart store in Battle Creek after testing positive for the drug. The lawsuit Tuesday in state court says Joseph Casias of Battle Creek was fired last year despite [...]

A federal judge in Maine, sentencing a 32-year-old former Boston firefighter on a marijuana-growing charge this week, noted that the man had admitted smoking about 2 ounces of the drug each week during the time he worked as a firefighter, prosecutors said. The comments came when Sean Berte was sentenced Thursday by US District Judge [...]

Prairie Plant Systems Sees Opportunities Beyond Medical Cannabis Contract A reputation of any kind, even for a business, is hard to shake. And when your company is the only federally licensed medical marijuana producer in Canada, says Brent Zettl, president and CEO of Prairie Plant Systems Inc.  ( PPS ), that’s the first thing people [...]

Matt Young used to bust kids for smoking pot as a security officer in Calgary, but now it’s Young who’s trying to find a way to smoke marijuana in peace. That search almost cost him his life. Young, now living in Saskatchewan, is a former private security manager and amateur bodybuilder who wanted to be [...]

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 [...]