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Pot firms want banking law to change
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017WASHINGTON — At the Cannabis Club Collective in Tacoma, Brian Caldwell has installed a top-of-the-line alarm system, motion sensors and a safe, hoping to protect the cash he collects from the 200-plus customers who buy
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CANNABIS 101: WHAT ARE STRAIN SHEETS?
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Howdy folks! If you’ve poked around our new website a bit, you may have noticed our selection of of Strain Sheets – which you can search through to get more information about a variety of
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Marijuana Taxation: 280E Ain’t Getting Better Anytime Soon
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017The marijuana industry is finally beginning to experience meaningful movement on the national level, slowly chipping away at federal prohibition. With the most recent Cole Memo, FinCEN guidelines, legalization in two additional states and D.C.,
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Marijuana industry wrestles with pesticides, safety
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017DENVER — Microscopic bugs and mildew can destroy a marijuana operation faster than any police raid. And because the crop has been illegal for so long, neither growers nor scientists have any reliable research to
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New state law bans open containers of pot in cars
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017OLYMPIA — A new state law bans open containers of marijuana in vehicles starting Sept. 26. The News Tribune says the new law means loose joints, open bags of bud or partially consumed packages of
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Men, blacks most likely to get Seattle marijuana-use tickets
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017SEATTLE — A second police study of marijuana-use tickets in Seattle has found that men and blacks are most likely to be ticketed. The results were similar to the first study after pot was legalized
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Cannabis Beverages and the FDA
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Last week, I received a call from a publicly traded, non-U.S. company that has developed a beverage containing CBD (cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive cannabinoid in cannabis). The company plans to produce this beverage in California and
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New Vansterdam celebrates one year in recreational marijuana business
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Washington’s highest grossing pot shop is going all out to celebrate its first birthday with a weekend-long party. New Vansterdam, the second recreational marijuana store to open in Vancouver, turns one year old on Saturday.
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Congress considers opening banking options for marijuana businesses
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Big news out of Washington, D.C. today for the recreational marijuana industry, as Congress is mulling over a bill that would allow banks to work with legal pot businesses. Banking has been a huge challenge
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Main Street Marijuana celebrates its first year in business
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Today, Vancouver’s oldest and busiest pot shop, Main Street Marijuana, celebrates its first birthday. The store opened a year ago today with hundreds of eager customers lining up along the sidewalk waiting to get in.