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Disabled Marijuana Growers Face Eviction

Disabled Marijuana Growers Face Eviction

A family in Lewiston, Maine might be ousted from their home over cannabis plants they keep on the property. Despite the fact that it is legally

Study: Pot Shops Are Good for Home Values

Study: Pot Shops Are Good for Home Values

It looks like San Francisco’s Board of City Supervisors will have to think twice about restricting zoning for dispensaries and pot retailers. According to real

Polls Find East Coast Voters Support Legal Marijuana

Polls Find East Coast Voters Support Legal Marijuana

Keeping in line in with the upwards trend of favoring cannabis legalization amongst the majority of Americans, recent polls have concluded that East Coast voters support legal marijuana. According to a recent survey, more than 60 percent of voters in New Jersey and Pennsylvania back legalizing the sale, distribution and use of cannabis within their respective states. The results are

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3 Years after Legalization, Alaska Communities Weigh Pot Bans

3 Years after Legalization, Alaska Communities Weigh Pot Bans

A vote on Tuesday might mark a sea of change for the cannabis business of local communities in Alaska—and might place pot bans within those areas for the foreseeable future. As reported by the Associated Press, voters in two of the state’s major pot cultivation districts will decide on whether growers and other pot-related business owners will continue to operate.

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Miley Cyrus Discusses Being High During Concerts

Miley Cyrus Discusses Being High During Concerts

During an appearance on radio station Apple Music Beats 1 to promote her new album Younger Now, Miley Cyrus recounted her not-so-quite halcyon days during the tour for her 2013 album Bangerz—and how high she was for its entire run. Cyrus relayed to presenter Zane Lowe how her cannabis consumption contributed creatively to both the tracks on Bangerz and the aesthetics of her performances during

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Melania Trump Hosted An Opioid Abuse Discussion

Melania Trump Hosted An Opioid Abuse Discussion

With rampant abuse of heroin, OxyContin and other similar drugs reaching epidemic levels in the United States, First Lady Melania Trump hosted an opioid abuse discussion in the White House this week in an effort to combat the rampant rise of illegal substance abuse. “The well-being of children is of the utmost importance to me, and I plan to use

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CBD Oil Added—Then Quickly Removed—From Target's Shopping Website

CBD Oil Added—Then Quickly Removed—From Target’s Shopping Website

Earlier this week, Target added CBD oil to their online store, making it one of the few places where one could obtain a CBD product via a multi-national retail corporation—one, that is, in the same class as big-hitters like Walmart and Kmart. Unfortunately, this would prove to be short-lived: Only hours after the hemp extracts were made available for purchase

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Disabled Marijuana Growers Face Eviction

Disabled Marijuana Growers Face Eviction

A family in Lewiston, Maine might be ousted from their home over cannabis plants they keep on the property. Despite the fact that it is legally permissible to use pot for medicinal purposes in the state, these marijuana growers face eviction from their federally subsidized $700-a-month apartment over cultivating cannabis in their own household specifically for medicinal use and pain alleviation. And considering

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Hugh Hefner, Playboy Founder and Cannabis Advocate, Found Dead at 91

Hugh Hefner, Playboy Founder and Cannabis Advocate, Found Dead at 91

Hugh Hefner, the enigmatic figure behind Playboy magazine and the de facto empire it launched, was found dead in his home, the Los Angeles manse nicknamed the Playboy Mansion, on Wednesday. He was 91. Considered the quintessential and iconic ladies’ man of the mid-20th century, the dawn of Hefner’s Playboy enterprise began in 1953 with the first issue of Playboy, a publication which the then-27-year-old married

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Atlanta Is One Vote Away From Decriminalizing Weed

Atlanta Is One Vote Away From Decriminalizing Weed

In the wake of a vote that took place earlier this week, it looks as if Atlanta is one vote away from decriminalizing weed. On Tuesday, members of Atlanta’s City Council’s public safety committee elected to send a decriminalization plan over to the full council itself. If the full council decides to pass the measure, those caught with less than one ounce of

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Study: Pot Shops Are Good for Home Values

Study: Pot Shops Are Good for Home Values

It looks like San Francisco’s Board of City Supervisors will have to think twice about restricting zoning for dispensaries and pot retailers. According to real estate economists, pot shops are good for home values. A report published by the peer-reviewed academic journal Real Estate Economics found that property values in areas with dispensaries and cannabis retailers saw a significant increase. Rather

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Pot Smokers Prefer McDonald's Over Taco Bell

Pot Smokers Prefer McDonald’s Over Taco Bell

For those whose go-to munchie comes straight off of the McDonald’s menu, it looks like you aren’t alone. According to a recent study, pot smokers prefer McDonald’s over any other fast food chain. As reported by Forbes, a survey conducted by Green Market Report and Consumer Research Around Cannabis, 43 percent of respondents—all of whom admitted to legally purchasing pot—answered that

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Is This a New Surprising Side-Effect of Medical Marijuana?

Is This a New Surprising Side-Effect of Medical Marijuana?

A recent report claims that an unintentional, surprising side-effect of medical marijuana has emerged: the likeliness that more people will make Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) claims. But while the study, which was conducted by researchers at Temple University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cincinnati, posits their theory on figures provided by data from the 1990 to 2013 Current

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Pete Davidson Opens Up About Borderline Personality Disorder and Weed

Pete Davidson Opens Up About Borderline Personality Disorder and Weed

In a recent interview, Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson opened up about his recent borderline personality diagnosis and his ever-evolving relationship with cannabis after a stint in rehab late last year. During the most recent episode of the perennially popular podcast WTF with Marc Maron, Davidson disclosed to fellow comic and titular host Marc Maron his struggles with his

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