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By Laura L. Myers SEATTLE (Reuters) - The state of Washington, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana in November, has hired its first "pot czar," a $300-per-hour consulting firm that will help sort out the complexities of setting up and regulating a cannabis market. Botec Analysis Corp, a Massachusetts-based think tank specializing in crime and drug policy, was chosen for the job ... View the full article

Teenagers as young as 16 are using the underground drug sales website Silk Road. View the full article

LONDON (Reuters) - GW Pharmaceuticals and Almirall may stop selling the cannabis drug Sativex in Germany after health authorities refused to agree a price that the companies view as acceptable. GW - which developed the under-the-tongue spray as a treatment for spasticity in multiple sclerosis - said on Tuesday the German authorities had determined a price that was significantly lower than in ... View the full article

Do you like this? Tweet Team Sky manager Dave Brailsford has compared the use of doping in sport to social drug use, highlighting the addictive nature of drugs and how people can rapidly progress from a first joint to crack cocaine. View the full article

The head of Indonesia's hardline Islamic police group has been accused of being high on marijuana when he crashed his car. View the full article

MarijuanaDoctors.com, the country's first online search and booking platform that operates in all legal medical marijuana states, has announced the additions of four reputable, professional and personable canna-businesses to their roster of exceptional board-certified cannabis doctors. MarijuanaDoctors displays a clear vision of taking the medical marijuana industry by storm and shows no signs ... View the full article

Valley Evaluation Centers, a Medical Marijuana certification clinic in Arizona, announces new weekend hours becoming one of the area’s only certification centers open Saturdays.Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) March 19, 2013 Valley Evaluation Centers, a Medical Marijuana certification clinic in Arizona, announces new weekend hours becoming one of the area’s only certification centers open every Saturday. ... View the full article

Drones: A flying technological marvel that could save lives or a sinister robot spy? View the full article

LOS ANGELES -- Advocates for the Disabled and Seriously Ill state that despite an August, 2012 finding by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge that a Long Beach, California medical marijuana ban ordinance ... View the full article

Washington state has tentatively chosen a Massachusetts-based firm led by a University of California, Los Angeles, professor to be its official marijuana consultant.Botec Analysis Corp. is based in Cambridge, ... View the full article

Two marijuana bills are scheduled for a vote this week in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, one to legalize the drug for medical use and the other to decriminalize the possession of up to an ... View the full article

GULMARG, India (AP) — There are very few ski resorts in the world where you see a soldier in uniform waiting for the gondola with a snowboard in one hand and an AK-47 in the other. View the full article

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. -- GrowLife, Inc. (OTCQB:PHOT), a provider of highly effective indoor growing technologies and unique lifestyle brands, is pleased to announce that the GrowLife Productions team ... View the full article

Boveda, Inc the global leader in two-way humidity control works to improve the storage of medical marijuana for cancer patients.New York, NY (PRWEB) March 18, 2013 The debate on the medical relevancy of marijuana has been one of the highest contested topics in our lifetime. The topic is so highly controversial that the highest level politicians will not make mention of it for fear of the ... View the full article