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Mar 25

Colorado weighs strategy for guarding against marijuana crackdown

By Kristen Wyatt, Associated Press

Colorado is considering an unusual strategy to protect its nascent marijuana industry from a potential federal crackdown.

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Jan 12

What medical marijuana can and can’t do for your health

By Nsikan Akpan

Cannabis can help chronic pain, and other conclusions from a federal advisory review of more than 10,000 marijuana studies to determine the health pros and cons.

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Dec 29

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Budding regulation in one of California’s marijuana meccas

By PBS NewsHour

As more states move to legalize pot, Humboldt County, California, an epicenter of the underground marijuana industry, has begun a new, bold experiment to bring growers out of the shadows and regulate the growth, sale and environmental impact of cannabis.

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Dec 24

Licensing medical marijuana stirs up trouble for states

By Rebecca Beitsch, Stateline

States have struggled with how to give out potentially lucrative medical marijuana licenses.

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Nov 02

Ballot could add legal marijuana to Las Vegas’ list of vices

By Michelle Rindels

A proposal on the Nov. 8 state ballot would legalize marijuana in Nevada.

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Oct 15

Investors anxious as Oregonians again vote on marijuana

By Andrew Selsky, Associated Press

About 50 Oregon towns and counties will decide in the Nov. 8 election whether to opt back into the marijuana business.

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Aug 15

Why some doctors feel ‘completely in the dark’ about medical marijuana

By Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News

States are beginning to require doctors to take continuing medical education courses that detail how marijuana interacts with the nervous system and other medications, as well as its side effects.

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Jul 13

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Medical marijuana research comes out of the shadows

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It was an unprecedented meeting of the minds and it happened at Harvard Medical School. The subject of April’s confab? Medical cannabis. Researchers suspect cannabis can do so many things, from fighting cancer to easing concussions and Crohn’s disease. There…

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Jul 06

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Until research unlocks medical understanding of marijuana, patients experiment

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Lenny and Amy’s 5-year-old son has epilepsy. When conventional medications caused terrible side effects, they started giving him a daily drop of cannabis oil, with dramatic results. But it’s a calculated risk: While there is anecdotal evidence of cannabis’ effectiveness,…

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Apr 15

Reclassifying pot could usher in a new era in medical marijuana research

By David Noonan, Scientific American

As the government considers reclassifying cannabis, researchers say easing the rules could lead to big advances.

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