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Clarence Thomas: We May Not Need Federal Marijuana Laws

Because of the government's 'piecemeal approach'

(Newser) - One of the Supreme Court's most conservative justices thinks we may be able to do away with federal weed laws. Clarence Thomas released a statement Monday in connection with the high court declining to hear an appeal from a Colorado pot dispensary looking to block the IRS from getting...

Oregon Is Too Good at Growing Pot
Oregon Is Too Good
at Growing Pot
Apr 19, 2018 10:30 AM CDT

Oregon Is Too Good at Growing Pot

There's too much of it to go around, and small operations are suffering

(Newser) - There's never been a better time to buy weed in Oregon, or a worse time to be a small grower or dispensary owner. Across the state, marijuana dispensaries have slashed weed prices in half to $700 per pound, or about $4 or $5 per gram, simply to get the...

Want to Buy Pot in Hawaii? Your Cash Is No Good

State wants to reduce robberies by making all sales cashless

(Newser) - Hawaii says it aims to be the first state to have marijuana sales handled without cash, saying it wants to avoid robberies and other crimes targeting dispensaries. All of Hawaii's eight licensed dispensaries have agreed to go cashless by Oct. 1, the governor's office said. The dispensaries will...

Netflix Develops Weed Strains for Its Shows

12 different varieties to coincide with launch of 'Disjointed' series

(Newser) - Netflix debuted Disjointed —a series starring Kathy Bates as a pot activist who runs a Southern California marijuana dispensary—on Friday, and along with the show's launch came some extra enhancers: new marijuana strains inspired by 10 of its shows. Variety and the Los Angeles Times report on...

Hunter S. Thompson's Weed Coming to a Dispensary Soon

His widow is creating strains from his preserved stash

(Newser) - For years, marijuana growers have approached Anita Thompson, the widow of Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, to put her late husband's name on their weed. "I always ended up saying no because it's the same story every time: somebody wants to slap Hunter's name on their...

Cops: 4 Torture, Chop Penis Off Pot Dispensary Owner

They mistakenly thought he was burying money in desert, say prosecutors

(Newser) - It's gruesome: Four people are accused of torturing a California marijuana dispensary owner with a blowtorch and cutting off his penis in an attempt to force him to reveal where he had buried piles of cash in the desert. The defendants mistakenly believed the victim was hiding money and...

Starbucks-Style Pot Stores? New Company Plans Chain

'We are big marijuana,' says chief of Seattle's Diego Pellicer

(Newser) - Marijuana: Coming to a strip mall near you? It will be if Jamen Shively has his way. The former Microsoft manager intends to build a national chain of "social marijuana" stores, he announced in Seattle. His company, Diego Pellicer, will invest $100 million in the endeavor over the next...

Calif. Supreme Court: Cities Can Ban Pot Dispensaries

More than 200 localities allowed to keep bans in place

(Newser) - In a major setback for pro-marijuana activists in the first state to legalize the drug for medical use, California's Supreme Court has ruled that cities and towns can legally ban pot dispensaries. In its 7-0 decision, the court sided with more than 200 local governments in the state that...

Why Pot Shops Need Unions
 Why Pot Shops Need Unions 
OPINION
Feb 21, 2013 1:59 PM CST

Why Pot Shops Need Unions

And unions need them right back, John Ford argues

(Newser) - When you think of unions, you probably think of blue-collar trucker types, auto workers, or maybe teachers. You probably don't imagine the hippy stoners currently employed by the country's semi-legal pot dispensaries. Believe it or not, the United Food and Commercial Workers union has been crucial in staffing...

LA Repeals Pot Store Ban
 LA Repeals Pot Store Ban 
Oct 3, 2012 2:01 AM CDT

LA Repeals Pot Store Ban

Council votes against ban after plea from one of its own

(Newser) - Pro-marijuana activists have scored a major victory in LA, where the city council has repealed its ban on pot dispensaries . The council voted 11-2 to send the ban up in smoke after a plea from Councilman Bill Rosendahl, a medical marijuana user with a rare form of cancer, reports the...

Pot Shops Must Grow Dope on Premises: Calif. Court

Ruling likely to shut down most storefronts

(Newser) - California cities can't simply ban medical marijuana shops—but the dispensaries must grow their own pot, an appeals court in the state has unanimously ruled. The city of Lake Forest had been trying to implement, in the appeals court's words, "a total bar contradicting state law" on...

NJ OKed Medical Pot in '10 —but It's Still Not for Sale

'WSJ' looks at state's struggle to implement medical marijuana program

(Newser) - Opposition to pot dispensaries around New Jersey is slowing the rollout of medical marijuana there, and officials say the first doctor-prescribed doobies won't be available until the end of the year at the earliest, reports the Wall Street Journal . So how long has the wait been? The New Jersey...

Arizona Ordered to Allow Marijuana Sales

Gov. Jan Brewer needs to implement the law, judge rules

(Newser) - An Arizona judge has told the state's government to get out of the way and let people have the medical marijuana dispensaries they voted for in 2010 . The judge ordered Gov. Jan Brewer, a consistent opponent of medical marijuana, to fully implement the law and allow dispensaries to open,...

Calif. Medical Association Backs Legalizing Pot

Physicians want pot brought into the light

(Newser) - The California Medical Association has thrown down the marijuana gauntlet by officially supporting the legalization of pot. The move comes just a week after the feds warned several medical marijuana dispensaries in the state to close up . Organization members want pot legalized and regulated so the drug can be more...

Rand Pulls Pot-Crime Study After LA Complains

It suggested that dispensaries reduced crime

(Newser) - Backers of medical marijuana got a surprise victory a few weeks ago in the form of a study from the Rand Corp . Researchers concluded that after Los Angeles authorities shut down hundreds of dispensaries last year, crime actually increased around the closed facilities. The victory proved short-lived: Rand has pulled...

Feds to California Pot Shops: Shut or Be Shut Down

At least 16 received letters this week threatening just that

(Newser) - Easy livin' at California pot dispensaries is about to go up in smoke. Even though several shops are operating legally under the state law allowing them to dispense medical marijuana,16 have received letters from federal officials warning them to shut down—or be closed. Federal law "takes precedence...

IRS Cites 1982 Tax Code, Charges Pot Shop $2.5M

Ties to illegal drugs mean Harborside Health Center can't deduct the rent

(Newser) - Bummer news for an Oakland marijuana dispensary that calls itself the world's largest: IRS auditors say it owes $2.5 million in back taxes for 2007 and 2008, a figure so high it may force Harborside Health Center to close its doors, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . Here's...

Montel Williams to Open Medical Pot Dispensary

Former talk show host turned to pot to battle his own multiple sclerosis

(Newser) - Montel Williams may once again be more popular than Maury Povich: The TV and radio personality is set to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Sacramento. Williams has been a public proponent of medical marijuana since turning to it in his battle against multiple sclerosis. "I want this to...

Dispensary Trades Free Pot for Cans of Food

California facility brings in 11,000 pounds of donations for food bank

(Newser) - Want to know the secret of getting a whole bunch of canned food donations? Offer free pot. That's just what a medical marijuana dispensary near San Francisco did over the holiday season, reports AP . The Granny Purps dispensary collected 11,000 pounds of donated food by offering complimentary marijuana cigarettes...

LA: Only 41 Pot Dispensaries Can Stay Open

City facing flood of lawsuits after strict ruling

(Newser) - Los Angeles may soon be facing a major shortage of marijuana dispensaries. City officials have taken a much stricter than expected approach to an ordinance regulating dispensaries and ruled that only 41 can stay open—less than a quarter of the 180 who were allowed to apply for permits to...

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