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As Washington state readied to become only the second state to allow people to buy marijuana legally without a doctor's note, lines were already forming in front of the lucky few stores that got last-minute ... View the full article

OREM, Utah -- via PRWEB - ForeverGreen Worldwide Corporation (OTCBB: FVRG), a leading provider of nutritional foods and other healthy products, announced today that June 2014 revenue exceeded June 2013 ... View the full article

Advocates seeking more lenient marijuana laws have no intention of stopping with Colorado and Washington. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have allowed marijuana for medicinal purposes, ... View the full article

As Washington state readied to become only the second state to allow people to buy marijuana legally without a doctor's note, lines were already forming in front of the lucky few stores that got last-minute ... View the full article

The light is so intense that Mark Arnold, assistant grower for pioneering pot producer AuricAG, wears blue-tinted lenses to cut the glare. View the full article

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state issued its first retail marijuana licenses Monday a day ahead of the start of legal sales, and 21 hours before the only store licensed to sell in Seattle was set to open, a line was already forming. View the full article

Washington state issued its first retail marijuana licenses Monday a day ahead of the start of legal sales, and 21 hours before the only store licensed to sell in Seattle was set to open, a line was already ... View the full article

Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday signed a bill making New York the 23rd US state to legalize marijuana for medical use. The state's law requires a medical prescription for marijuana and limits its use to help treating patients with cancer, HIV, Lou Gehrig's disease, Parkinson's, epilepsy and a few other illnesses. Patients also must agree to sign up for the medical marijuana program. "New York ... View the full article

Australian drug fugitive Lisa Marie Smith has reportedly been spotted running a cafe in Dublin. View the full article

Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday he had signed legislation making New York the 23rd state to allow medical marijuana, calling his approach, which forbids smoking of the drug and includes strict limits, the "smartest" any state had taken so far. "This new law takes an important step toward bringing relief to patients living with extraordinary pain and illness," Cuomo told a news conference at ... View the full article

More than a year and a half after Washington voters approved the recreational use of marijuana, the northwestern state on Monday issued the first licenses to grow, process, and sell the drug, making it available to consumers as early as Tuesday. Washington, which voted on the issue in November 2012, joins Colorado, which began permitting sales of recreational pot at the start of this year. Up to ... View the full article

Marijuana retail shop owners in Washington state have been given the green light to open their doors after a series of licences were granted via overnight emails. The move will officially make Washington the second state behind Colorado to allow marijuana sales for recreational use. "We're pretty stoked," said John Evich, an investor in a cannabis shop in Bellingham, north of Seattle. Washington ... View the full article

Washington state's first recreational marijuana stores open for business this week, more than a year and a half after voters decided to legalize, tax and regulate pot. A: The state's Liquor Control Board issued the first two dozen retail marijuana licenses in the wee hours Monday, and stores can open at 8 a.m. Tuesday if they're ready. Once stores get their licenses, they can place their orders ... View the full article

Manila (AFP) - Senior church leaders in the conservative Philippines said Monday they support the use of marijuana to ease the pain of the terminally ill, but not for recreational reasons. View the full article