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The Columbian / Associated Press

PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017

SEATTLE — Thursday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and when pot shops in legal weed states thank their

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The Columbian / Associated Press

PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky agriculture officials say they’re burning a fraction of the hemp crop being grown for commercial purposes because it contains a higher level of a psychoactive compound than is legally allowed. Brent

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The Columbian / Associated Press

PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017

DENVER — Washington state regulators have begun accepting bids for a new seed-to-sale tracking system to keep tabs on marijuana commerce, a deal with an initial value of about $3 million. The competition likely will

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The Columbian / Associated Press

PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017

Canada is set to detail its plans for legalized recreational marijuana, with the industry expecting a rush of mergers as companies seek a national footprint amid a patchwork of different rules in each province. Prime

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The Columbian / Associated Press

PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017

KINGSTON — Officials say a Washington Native American tribe is in talks with the state about beginning marijuana sales on their land. The Kitsap Sun reports Port Gamble S’Klallam Chairman Jeromy Sullivan said they are

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The Columbian / Associated Press

PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017

DENVER — Governors from the first four states to legalize recreational marijuana are asking the Trump administration to let the pot experiments continue. The governors of Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington say that marijuana legalization

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The Columbian / Associated Press

PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017

With local restrictions on marijuana easing across the U.S., power suppliers from California to Maine were expecting a little buzz of their own from newly legitimate pot farmers. After all, a 5,000-square-foot warehouse filled with

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The Columbian / Associated Press

PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017

OLYMPIA — Meagan Holt sat in the front row of a committee hearing earlier this week holding her 4-year-old daughter Maddie in one arm and a syringe filled with cannabis oil in the other. “Cannabis

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The Columbian / Associated Press

PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017

If Mike Gilles were to knock back a bottle of Jack Daniels on the front porch of a stranger’s home, he wouldn’t be surprised if the cops were called. “I could or should expect to

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The Columbian / Associated Press

PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017

America’s cannabis industry will continue growing at double-digit rates over the next four years — even with ambiguity emanating from the White House — as the drug gains in popularity, according to a leading marijuana-research

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