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Big Cannabis: Growing the Next Great American Industry
by Kyle Chayka, January 15, 2013 For entrepreneur Troy Dayton, providing basic services like insurance and capital management amounts to revolutionary business. The support his firm ArcView supplies...
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Excellent Infographic – National Marijuana Prices
This excellent infographic describes the varying prices of marijuana. Made by floatingsheep.org using data from the anonymous feedback site PriceOfWeed.com, this map describes the low prices of...
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MT Legislator: Marijuana, “The Most Dangerous Drug There Is”
by Dan Riffle, February 19, 2013 Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Alcohol causes violent behavior and deaths by liver cirrhosis and alcohol poisoning....
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Proposed City of San Diego Dispensary Regulations
by San Diego Chapter of Americans for Safe Access, March 15, 2013 Mayor Filner Proposed 2% tax, 5k annual licensing fee, and collectives / cooperatives in limited commercial and industrial zones Over...
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Medical Cannabis Still Fueling the Green Rush
With a projected $1.3 billion – $1.5 billion in sales in 2013, the largest, legally operating sector within the green rush is the medical cannabis community. The deregulation which began in 1998 and...
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The Results Are In: Clubbers Really Like Drugs
by Julia Dawidowicz, April 22, 2013 This year, Mixmag partnered up with the Guardian and Gay Times to conduct their annual “Global Drug Survey” — the world’s largest independent survey on which...
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PopSci.com Infographic – Which Drugs Kill Americans
PopSci.com (Popular Science) has released a great infographic and article by Katie Peek, who reports: “[W]hile cocaine, heroin and alcohol are all responsible for enough deaths to warrant their own...
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A Millennial Manifesto for Marijuana Law Reform
by Sabrina Fendrick, NORML Women’s Alliance, May 1, 2013 As our nation edges cautiously toward majority support for marijuana legalization, the millennial generation is leading the way more than any...
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High Scientist: The Lives of Neanderthals
The discovery of the remains of human-like individuals millions of years old sparked a long-standing curiosity about the origins of humanity. Archaeological evidence has shed a ton of insight into who...
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Marijuana Accounts for Vast Majority of Drug Seizures on Mexican Border...
Huff Post has a great infographic showing “the War on Drugs is clearly a war on weed.” Marijuana was a staggering 99.5% of the Border Patrol’s drug seizures, by weight, along the US-Mexico border in...
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70% of Recent Major US Drug Seizures Are Marijuana Related
In an excellent article on The Daily Chronic, Scott Gacek examines a study which found over 70% of US drug seizures big enough to make the news from March 2012 to April 2013 involved marijuana. He...
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Help Hempfest Be a Happy Highlight of 2013
Hempfest is perhaps the world’s largest protestival. In 2012, more than 250,000 people attended the weekend-long event to watch entertainment, hear speakers on a wide range of topics, shop for...
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Gallup Poll Finds 7 Percent of US Adults Admit to Smoking Pot Regularly
According to an annual Consumption Habits poll conducted by Gallup last month, the percentage of U.S. adults who have tried marijuana is 38%, an increase of only 5% since 1985. This data is compared...
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Cannabis 101: Choosing Rolling Paper
Hello Weedists, This is a quick and dirty 101 on choosing rolling paper. Full disclosure: I enjoy smoking joints (who doesn’t love that great taste), but I don’t smoke them regularly. I haven’t...
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Rain Gardens for the Environment
To me, weedists are so much more than connoisseurs of fine cannabis. We are also intelligent, caring earth-conscious people with a high level of creativity. With that in mind, I give you the rain...
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Capitalizing on Cannabis: A Review of Marijuana Stocks
Seeking Alpha’s Alan Brochstein dives into the danker side of the stock market and reviews some of the few public marijuana stocks, covering the big fish of the tiny cannabis-related market, including...
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Police Groups Protest Holder’s Marijuana Policy Memo, Threatens Their Gravy...
Last week, the Huffington Post covered a group of law enforcement officers who slammed Attorney General Eric Holder for releasing a marijuana policy memo stating the federal government will not block...
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Marijuana Possession Arrests Outpace Violent Crime Arrests
The good folks over at Think Progress recently put out a very revealing article. In 2012 drug offenses accounted for the majority of total arrests. 82% of the 1.55 million drug arrests were for simple...
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Silk Road’s Prices for Cannabis Around the World
Before Silk Road was busted, Price Geek managed to acquire their prices for cannabis from several countries around the world. Prices in the US are relatively low ($15/g), and the most expensive place...
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Legal Weed is the Cheapest Weed
In what amounts to a collective “duh” moment for the non-cannabis enthusiasts out there, a recent study illustrated that marijuana is very expensive when it’s illegal. Not surprising, the cheapest...
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