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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 [...] Tweet this!

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 [...] Tweet this!

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 [...] [...]

While most Californians and the media in recent months have understandably remained focused on The Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 — which seeks to eliminate criminal penalties for the adult personal possession and cultivation of marijuana — state lawmakers in Sacramento have quietly been moving forward on a cannabis liberalization bill of [...]