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WSU researchers working to launch breath test for pot use
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017TACOMA — Washington State University researchers say they’re close to having a portable breath test that police can use to detect if someone has recently consumed marijuana. The News Tribune reports WSU professor Herbert
Oregon gives preliminary OK to retail marijuana rules
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017MILWAUKIE, Ore. — Marijuana stores will be prohibited from selling both recreational and medical marijuana and pot cannot be used on site under preliminary regulations approved Thursday by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. The more
Feds block push by Colorado to create marijuana bank
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017DENVER — Colorado’s attempt to create a bank to service its marijuana industry has suffered another setback by the federal government and could be facing an impossible dilemma. The Federal Reserve — the guardian of
DEA issued warning over medical pot
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017WASHINGTON — In a scathing decision, a federal court in California has ruled that the Drug Enforcement Administration’s interpretation of a recent medical marijuana bill “defies language and logic,” “tortures the plain meaning of the
Dispensary fined for handing out product in parking lot
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017PORTLAND — A Portland dispensary is out $2,500 after the state fined the establishment for allowing a vendor to give away marijuana concentrates and pre-rolled joints in the parking lot on the opening day or
Medical pot at work? Some small-business owners say it’s OK
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017A fifth of small-business owners say they would allow an employee with a medical marijuana prescription to use the drug while at work, according to a survey released Wednesday by insurance company Employers Holdings. The
Renton police bust illegal marijuana grow operation
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017RENTON — Renton police say about 60 local and federal law enforcement officers raided eight homes in Seattle and Renton to bust an organized criminal marijuana growing operation. Thursday’s raid was the result of a
UW law school to study marijuana markets and regulation
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017SEATTLE — A new group at the University of Washington law school will spend the next academic year studying existing and emerging markets for marijuana. The project will help inform the state as it prepares
Oregon pot stores sell more than $11 million in first 5 days
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Retailers of Cannabis Association estimates that marijuana stores sold more than $11 million of marijuana during the state’s first week of legal re creational sales. The Statesman Journal in Salem
Are there pesticides in your marijuana?
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Washington announced new rules for pesticide testing in pot as the first product liability lawsuit was filed against the pot industry in Colorado over pesticide use. New emergency rules, which took effect this week in