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9 min ago | HeraldNet

Rules could be changed to allow outdoor pot grows

The chief rules writer for Washington's Liquor Control Board says she will recommend that the state allow marijuana to be grown outdoors under its new regulations for recreational marijuana.

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4 hrs ago | Denver Post

Colorado marijuana dispensary owner, 11 others indicted on 71 charges

A Colorado grand jury has indicted 12 people on allegations that they ran a medical-marijuana dispensary as a front for both an investment scam and an illegal marijuana-growing operation.

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Related Topix: Colorado, Lakewood, CO, Brighton, CO

8 hrs ago | CBS Local

Statewide Grand Jury Indicts Marijuana Providers

A Colorado statewide grand jury has indicted 12 people on charges of defrauding investors and running an illegal medical marijuana growing operation.

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Related Topix: Colorado, Colorado Government

12 hrs ago | CBS 3 Springfield

Miley Cyrus: Alcohol is way more dangerous than marijuana

By Liz Raftery, Bill Cosby says he wanted The Cosby Show to represent a parenting philosophy that would "take the house back" from kids.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Bill Cosby, Family, Parenting, Kids, Liam Hemsworth, Holyoke, MA

16 hrs ago | BBC News

Fire accused 'ordered house blaze'

The Sharkey fire deaths murder trial has been told that both of the accused asked a man to set fire to a house in Helensburgh to settle a drug debt.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Strathclyde County, Scotland

20 hrs ago | KCAU

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By Staci DaSilva sdasilva@kcautv.com MidAmerican Energy says it hasn't raised your rates since 1995.

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Related Topix: Iowa, Drugs, District of Columbia Government, Washington DC, US Military, Offutt Air Force Base, US Air Force

Tue Jun 18, 2013

New York Daily News

Miley Cyrus: 'Alcohol is way more dangerous than marijuana'

Ashtrays and heartbreak? It's more than just a song, according to Miley Cyrus. It's a lifestyle.

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Related Topix: Entertainment

KNDO

Wash. Delegation says Feds Should Respect Pot Laws

More than half of Washington's congressional delegation is asking the U.S. government to respect the state's marijuana legalization effort.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Rick Larsen, US House of Representatives, Democrat

AlertNet

New Hampshire nears approval of medical marijuana law

New Hampshire is set to become the final state in New England to allow medical marijuana after negotiators from the Republican-controlled Senate and Democratic-controlled House agreed Tuesday on a bill backed by Governor Maggie Hassan.

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Related Topix: Drugs, US News, Maggie Hassan

Christian Science Monitor

Put our kids first, Mr. Holder, and enforce federal law against marijuana

A medical marijuana plant is shown at a dispensary in Seattle in November last year.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Healthcare Law, Law, Family, Kids, Smoking, Medicine, Health, Drug Addiction (Substance Abuse), Opinion

East Bay Express

What Montanans Hear About Medical Marijuana

"The average 'medical' marijuana user is a 32-year-old white male with a history of alcohol, cocaine and meth use, but NO history of a life-threatening illness," wrote a rehab industry shill in Sunday's Montana Standard .

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Related Topix: Drugs, Montana Government, Montana

MediLexicon

Medical Marijuana Should Not Be Given To Teens For Chronic Pain

Mayo Clinic researchers have said that medical marijuana is not recommended for teenagers with chronic pain, despite the fact that the cause of chronic pain can be hard to identify and some medications do not work.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Family, Teenagers

Mon Jun 17, 2013

9NEWS

Well-known marijuana attorney arrested

One of the state's most vocal supporters of recreational and medical marijuana has been arrested after police say he broke out the window of another man's RV, 9Wants to Know has learned.

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The Florida Times-Union

Underground Middleburg bunker one of four illegal marijuana growing sites busted by police

An elaborate marijuana growing operation - whose four grow houses included an underground bunker made from two buried 40-foot cargo trailers - was busted by the Clay County Drug Task Force.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Middleburg, FL, Clay County, FL

KSWO

Indiana woman condemned for killing at 15 is freed

The plans of a former Microsoft manager to create the "Starbucks of Pot" are worrying other activists who pushed for the legalization of marijuana in Washington state.

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Related Topix: Indiana, Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Fire, Roman Catholic Church, Religion

CBS 47

Businessman aims to create 'the Starbucks of Marijuana'

The plans of a former Microsoft manager to create the "Starbucks of Pot" are worrying other activists who pushed for the legalization of marijuana in Washington state.

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Rome News

Man, woman arrested on drug charges during traffic stop

Authorities say they arrested a man and woman on drug charges during a late Sunday traffic stop.

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Seattle Times

Businessman tries his luck at building pot brand

For the activists who led the effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Washington state last fall, Jamen Shively was one of their biggest fears: an aspiring pot profiteer whose unabashed dreams of building a cannabis empire might attract unwanted attention from the federal government or a backlash that could slow the marijuana reform movement ... (more)

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Related Topix: Dixie, WA

WAND-TV Decatur

Shipwreck search excites remote Michigan village

French and U.S. experts are continuing their search for the 17th-century ship Griffin, which they believe sank in northern Lake Michigan in 1679.

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Related Topix: Michigan, Michigan Government

Final Call

Up in smoke: Targeted marijuana arrests are having lingering impact...

All was right with the world for Mark Harrison . After being unemployed for years, he finally got a job and was anxious to get to work.

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Related Topix: Drugs, ACLU, Prison