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Celebrating music, art and recreationally legalized cannabis, the South Park Music Festival will make its debut in Fairplay, Colorado this summer.
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FBI director James Comey made headlines two weeks ago when he half-joked about relaxing the bureau’s drug-testing policy in order to attract the nation’s brightest applicants — a comment he made in reference to the Congress-approved 2,000 new jobs the FBI will be filling in 2014. “A lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana,” Comey said.
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City leaders in Littleton will give initial consideration Tuesday to putting in place a ban on recreational marijuana stores, as well as testing, manufacturing and grow facilities.
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Two years after a majority of Lakewood residents voted “yes” on Amendment 64 legalizing possession and retail sales of marijuana in Colorado, they may be voting again in November on whether the city will allow marijuana stores.
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The City of Denver has begun auctioning off the assets — sans pot — of several medical marijuana business that were raided by the federal government last year.
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Diagnosed with “mixed dementia” and frontal brain lobe damage, former University of Texas Longhorns defensive tackle Greg Ploetz had been deteriorating since 2005.
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Marijuana advocates hailed the recent U.S. House vote on medical marijuana as a watershed in their fight against cannabis prohibition, but legal experts said the vote was more symbolic than practical.
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By Brittany Driver
Child Protective Services is not exactly the popular kid at the lunch table, at least not among the circles that comprise the marijuana community. But why wouldn’t I like the idea of CPS? It’s an agency meant to keep children safe, isn’t it?
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By Ricardo Baca
Looking to invest in cannabis? You’re not alone. Before giving your money away read this one piece of advice from the CEO of angel-investor ArcView Group.
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