14 Sep 2013

Kentucky Ag Commissioner Gives Farmers Green Light To Grow Hemp

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  Agriculture Commissioner James Comer says he hopes Kentucky farmers plant hemp in April. Reported by: Aaron Adelson Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/AAdelsonABC36   Agriculture Commissioner James Comer says he hopes Kentucky farmers plant hemp in April.   “We used to grow tobacco on the farm and now basically we just have cattle and grow hay, and it just seems like a good alternative crop,” said Steven Albert, a farmer from Green County.  Albert came to a Hemp Commission meeting to … Read More

14 Sep 2013

Kentucky Ag Commissioner Gives Farmers Green Light To Grow Hemp

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  Agriculture Commissioner James Comer says he hopes Kentucky farmers plant hemp in April. Reported by: Aaron Adelson Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/AAdelsonABC36   Agriculture Commissioner James Comer says he hopes Kentucky farmers plant hemp in April.   “We used to grow tobacco on the farm and now basically we just have cattle and grow hay, and it just seems like a good alternative crop,” said Steven Albert, a farmer from Green County.  Albert came to a Hemp Commission meeting to … Read More

13 Sep 2013

Conservatives Fight Marijuana Taxation

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In front of the U.S. Capitol Thursday, two congressmen discussed H.R. 2240, the Small Business Tax Equity Act, a little known bill introduced in June by Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer to allow deductions and credits relating to expenditures for marijuana sales conducted in compliance with state law. The bill, according to GovTrack.Us, has a 0% chance of being enacted and has a tiny chance of even getting out of the House Ways and Means committee. The main reason it has … Read More

12 Sep 2013

Feds in Talks With Banks Over Marijuana Business

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The government is in talks with bank regulators to see whether financial institutions in states that have approved recreational marijuana use can do business with drug dispensaries there, a top Justice Department official said Tuesday. The announcement came nearly two weeks after the Justice Department decided it won’t take legal action against Colorado and Washington, which approved recreational marijuana use last year. Banks, worried they could be violating federal laws, have been hesitant to provide services to state-authorized marijuana dispensaries, … Read More

12 Sep 2013

Answers Sought for When Marijuana Laws Collide

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A deputy attorney general told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that the Justice Department had begun working with Treasury officials and financial regulators to clarify how it legally deals with banks and other businesses that serve marijuana dispensaries and growers in states that have legalized the drug for medical or recreational use. The deputy attorney general, James M. Cole, said the Obama administration was dedicated to enforcing federal drug laws and was choosing the best among a number of … Read More

11 Sep 2013

Fans of Legal Marijuana Cheer

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The pros and cons of marijuana will take center stage Tuesday in Washington, D.C., when the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a landmark hearing on legalization. Requested by committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the hearing was triggered by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement last month that federal authorities no longer will interfere as states adopt laws to allow medical marijuana or to legalize the drug entirely. The hearing is on conflicts between state and federal marijuana laws. In calling … Read More

11 Sep 2013

Fans of Legal Marijuana Cheer

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The pros and cons of marijuana will take center stage Tuesday in Washington, D.C., when the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a landmark hearing on legalization. Requested by committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the hearing was triggered by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement last month that federal authorities no longer will interfere as states adopt laws to allow medical marijuana or to legalize the drug entirely. The hearing is on conflicts between state and federal marijuana laws. In calling … Read More

10 Sep 2013

Coming Soon: 334 Pot Stores in Washington State

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The state would license 334 pot stores, including at least 21 in Seattle and 61 in King County, under revised state rules for a recreational marijuana system. Total pot production would be capped at 40 metric tons next year in rules approved Wednesday by the state Liquor Control Board. The cap is intended to meet anticipated consumer demand that would roughly equal 25 percent of the total state market for legal recreational, medical and illicit-market marijuana. State officials expect recreational … Read More

10 Sep 2013

NJ Assembly Approves Changes To MMJ Law

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A two-year-old Scotch Plains girl and other sick children who qualify for medical marijuana moved closer to getting the treatments they need after the New Jersey Assembly overwhelmingly approved changes in the regulations on Monday. Vivian Wilson, a toddler who suffers from a severe, rare form of epilepsy, was issued a card to obtain the drug in February, but faced a number of roadblocks, including a ban on edible cannabis. Inspired by her story, lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a bill in … Read More

10 Sep 2013

NJ Assembly Approves Changes To MMJ Law

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A two-year-old Scotch Plains girl and other sick children who qualify for medical marijuana moved closer to getting the treatments they need after the New Jersey Assembly overwhelmingly approved changes in the regulations on Monday. Vivian Wilson, a toddler who suffers from a severe, rare form of epilepsy, was issued a card to obtain the drug in February, but faced a number of roadblocks, including a ban on edible cannabis. Inspired by her story, lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a bill in … Read More

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