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Washington, D.C., voters will get the chance to weigh in on marijuana legalization at the polls this November. The D.C. Board of Elections unanimously voted Wednesday to include legalization of recreational marijuana on November ballots. If passed, the initiative would allow individuals over 21 years old to possess up to two ounces of marijuana and would permit cultivation of up to six plants at ... View the full article

Washington (AFP) - Residents of the US capital will vote in November on whether to follow the states of Colorado and Washington in legalizing marijuana, following approval of the initiative Wednesday by its Board of Elections. View the full article

Residents of the US capital will vote in November on whether to follow the states of Colorado and Washington in legalizing marijuana, following approval of the initiative Wednesday by its Board of Elections. Campaigners said they had amassed more than 57,000 signatures -- more than double the number required -- on a petition to include legalization as part of the District of Columbia's November ... View the full article

By Daniel Wallis DENVER (Reuters) - A national marijuana industry group launched the first food safety basics course in Colorado on Wednesday for producers and retailers of pot-infused edibles, and another for so-called budtenders who work in the state's legal weed stores. Colorado and Washington this year became the first U.S. states to allow recreational sales of the drug to adults. Last week ... View the full article

By John Tilak TORONTO (Reuters) - Four Canadian medical marijuana producers are working on transactions that will allow them to go public in the next few weeks, according to industry sources and filings, giving investors fresh paths into a growing industry. Mettrum Ltd, OrganiGram Inc, Bedrocan Canada Inc and PharmaCan Capital, a holding company involved with three licensed producers, will join ... View the full article

The companies include business consultants, a customer-relations management business, a company that owns a “bud-and-breakfast” and one that builds “grow rooms” out of old shipping containers. View the full article

Detectives have raided a third property as part of a 40-year-old triple murder investigation in Queensland. View the full article

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Tauriga Sciences, Inc. (OTCQB:TAUG) ("Tauriga" or the "Company"), a diversified life sciences company with interests in the natural wellness sector and in developing ... View the full article

Although marijuana may have a reputation as a relatively harmless drug, a new case report links it to the deaths of two young men in Germany. In one of the deaths, a 23-year-old man without a history of health problems suddenly collapsed while using public transportation, and died after 40 minutes of unsuccessful resuscitation efforts, according to the case report based on postmortem ... View the full article

The New York Times opinion editors published a series on marijuana legalization last week, and following the, well, high volume of responses to their comments, the editors (and contributors) participated in a Reddit AMA. 1. Snoop Dogg Lion asks hard-hitting questions Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal skirts around the issue, pointing out that he has nothing to do with corporate policy. 3 ... View the full article

NIMBIN adventurer, entrepreneur and author Gerald Taylor has started a hemp clothing business that he believes is the only company in the world hand-weaving hemp fabrics. View the full article

SAN DIEGO -- Medical Marijuana, Inc. (OTC Pink: MJNA) is pleased to announce that one of its investment portfolio companies, KannaLife Sciences, Inc. ("KannaLife"), a bio-pharmaceutical and phyto-medical ... View the full article

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Icon Media Holdings, Inc.(OTC:ICNM), a Raleigh, NC-based technology company, announced today that it has opened its www.MMJ-X.COM website for beta testing and initial user interfacing. ... View the full article

A large-scale hydroponic drug operation has been discovered in a shipping container buried underground near a house destroyed by a bushfire on the New South Wales North Coast. View the full article

A FOSTER dad left a baby girl to die in his hot car — and only remembered when he saw a child crying on Game of Thrones while he and his partner were smoking dope. View the full article