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Montel Williams to Open Medical Pot Dispensary

Former talk show host turned to pot to battle his own multiple sclerosis

(Newser) - Montel Williams may once again be more popular than Maury Povich: The TV and radio personality is set to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Sacramento. Williams has been a public proponent of medical marijuana since turning to it in his battle against multiple sclerosis. "I want this to...

Miracle-Gro Stoked About Medical Marijuana

Pot farms in 16 states could light up company profits

(Newser) - Don't bogart those profits. That's what Scotts Miracle-Gro execs are thinking now that they're zeroing in on the medical marijuana market. They have high hopes pot could boost sales majorly. "I want to target the pot market," CEO Jim Hagedorn tells the Wall Street Journal ...

The "Walmart of Weed" opens its doors in Arizona
 'Walmart of Weed' 
 Opens in Arizona 
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Jun 4, 2011 1:04 PM CDT

'Walmart of Weed' Opens in Arizona

Superstore sells everything you need to grow medical marijuana

(Newser) - And you thought other big-box superstores were making an attempt to go green. A chain nicknamed the "Walmart of Weed" opened its third and largest outlet today in Phoenix, Arizona, where voters approved medical marijuana last fall. Although you can't buy pot in the first weGrow Store outside...

Arizona Sues Feds Over Medical Marijuana

Jan Brewer wants clarification on federal law before proceeding

(Newser) - Arizona's medical marijuana law is now stuck in legal limbo. Gov. Jan Brewer has put a temporary halt on the permit process for dispensaries just days before it was to begin, reports the Arizona Republic . Brewer and the state won't move ahead until they get clarification on whether...

Why I Still Give My 11-Year-Old Marijuana

Marie Myung-Ok Lee calls experiment 'a qualified success'

(Newser) - Marie Myung-Ok Lee has been giving her autistic 11-year-old son medical marijuana for two years now, and judging from some of the responses she’s received from people who read her columns, “I will not be up for Mother of the Year any time soon,” she writes on...

Dad Says Marijuana Helped Cure Cancer-Stricken Tot

Montana pop credits pot to son's 'miracle recovery' from brain tumor

(Newser) - A desperate dad slipped pot to his cancer-stricken son, and now credits the drug with the toddler's surprising recovery. Cash Hyde was given little chance of survival from a Stage 4 brain tumor, and struggled with several bouts of chemo, a stroke, and septic shock. So panicked dad, Mike...

Now Enrolling: Maine's Marijuana State University

It's really just a one-man workshop, but still...

(Newser) - The West Coast has Oaksterdam University , which bills itself as the nation's first "cannabis college," and now the East Coast has ... Marijuana State University. It's actually a roving one-man workshop in Maine with the goal of teaching people how to grow high-quality medical marijuana, reports the Portland Press ...

Pot Farms Eat Up 1% of Nation's Electricity

Smoking joint like leaving light on all day

(Newser) - Bad news for eco-conscious stoners: That joint you just smoked hurt the planet. Marijuana grown indoors accounts for 1% of America’s yearly electricity consumption, or $5 billion worth of energy, a study finds. That’s equivalent to the annual energy bills of 2 million homes. And in terms of...

New Marijuana Lobby Group Hits Washington

We'll be the 'go-to' association, boasts director

(Newser) - Heavy, man. No more hippie-dippie peace-and-love arguments to legalize pot: marijuana supporters have launched a professional lobby organization in DC to press their case. The National Cannabis Industry Association will be the "go-to organization in Washington" for this fight, said director Aaron Smith, who has worked for 5 years...

California Cities Scramble to Launch Pot Farms

Towns want marijuana-related tax money

(Newser) - In a bid to rake in even more pot-related tax revenue, some California cities are pushing to build government-OKed marijuana farms within city limits, the AP reports. In wine country, the town of Sebastopol passed a measure allowing for four medical-marijuana gardens—two of which are to function as communal...

Medical Marijuana Gets the OK in Arizona

Proposition 203 passes by a hair

(Newser) - Arizona's voters have opted to legalize medical marijuana , by a margin of some 4,000 votes in a recount that was finalized yesterday. The measure will allow patients with diseases including cancer, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, and any other "chronic or debilitating" disease that meets guidelines to buy 2.5...

Calif. Cops Lost in Pot Law Haze

They're left to sort out enforcement in whatever state

(Newser) - California cops can't wait until marijuana laws are clarified one way or the other because they're so confused right now that they might as well be stoned on the job. Take Deputy Sheriff Robert Hamilton of Humboldt County, the root of the state's wild west marijuana culture. He recently discovered...

Prop 19 on Legal Pot Is in Trouble

Bid to legalize marijuana is suddenly trailing in the polls

(Newser) - Proposition 19 may have captured a lot of media attention, but the ballot initiative to legalize marijuana in California is suddenly in jeopardy. It's trailing 51% to 39% in a new Los Angeles Times poll after leading much of the way until now. The problem, apparently, is that supporters haven't...

Reporter Gets High, Drives With Cops (for Science)

Ahead of Prop. 19, writer explores driving stoned

(Newser) - While out on a marijuana driving test supervised by the LAPD, Steve Lopez and his companions speculate that "probably nowhere in America is what we're doing today occurring." They're probably right. With Proposition 19 making legal marijuana a possibility, Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich asked Lopez to...

Marijuana Soda On the Market

 Marijuana Soda On the Market 
Oct 20, 2010 2:40 PM CDT

Marijuana Soda On the Market

Dixie Elixirs offers organic, 'reliably potent' soft drinks

(Newser) - In an effort to beat the "reefer madness" stigma of smoking weed, a Colorado company is making pot-infused soda for medical marijuana patients, writes David Teeghman at Discovery. Dixie Elixirs organic sodas look just about like anything else on the shelf, but deliver an added kick from "a...

Who Needs Donors? Arts Group Starts Selling Pot

Group expects to raise $1M from marijuana

(Newser) - When the directors of the nonprofit foundation Life Is Art found it increasingly hard to raise cash from recession-strapped donors, they decided to embrace a new revenue source: marijuana. Life Is Art's director owns land in California's Sonoma County, so the group has been growing varieties known as O.G....

Now, Grown Kids Score Pot for Aging Mom, Dad

 Now, Grown Kids 
 Score Pot for 
 Aging Mom, Dad 
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Oct 10, 2010 9:30 AM CDT

Now, Grown Kids Score Pot for Aging Mom, Dad

Middle-aged users surprised by who they're making hash brownies for

(Newser) - Thirty years ago, he would have been grounded. But today, 46-year-old Bryan brings marijuana into his parents' house—with their blessing and for their brownies. The New York Times calls it a new, though still rare, rite of middle-age passage: recreational users purchasing pot to ease mom and dad's ailments....

Smokin' Design Features Futuristic Pot Plant

Laboratory-like Oakland facility aims to supply med marijuana dispensaries

(Newser) - Imagine a world where all anxieties are tranquilized, all boredom amused, thanks in part to a sterilized, hermetically sealed, blindingly white California marijuana growing operation. That's the kind of laboratory-like plant Oakland nonprofit organization Gropech has designed. The 60,000-square-foot facility would nurture 30,000 plants (worth $50 million a...

Pot Growers Join Teamsters Union

It's unclear how unionizing will help though

(Newser) - Medical marijuana growers have officially joined the ranks of organized labor—as part of the Teamsters. Almost 40 growers jointed the labor union earlier this month, the AP reports. All of them work for Marjyn Investments, an Oakland business that contracts out pot growth for patients. Thanks to their newly-negotiated...

Medical Marijuana May Cost You Your Job

Companies say buzzed employees are a 'safety issue'

(Newser) - Talk about a buzzkill: Americans using doctor-prescribed marijuana are losing their jobs when they, somewhat predictably, fail drug tests. Though medical marijuana is now legal in 14 states, it remains unclear if employers are legally bound to keep pot-toking employees, notes the New York Times . '“It’s a safety...

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