After 17 Years, Hawaii’s First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Finally Opens

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After 17 Years, Hawaii’s First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Finally Opens | TJ Baker

It’s been 17 years since Hawaii first legalized medical marijuana, and now the Aloha State’s first dispensary is open for business. Maui Grown Therapies, located in Kahului, began dispensing medical cannabis to patients on Tuesday, one day after receiving approval to open following their final onsite retail inspection by the Department of Health. “Clearly this is […]

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Jeff Sessions Won’t Rule Out Using Mafia Law to Go After Legal Marijuana

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Jeff Sessions Won’t Rule Out Using Mafia Law to Go After Legal Marijuana | Phillip Smith

On conservative radio talker Hugh Hewitt’s program Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions continued to bad mouth marijuana and suggested he might use laws enacted to go after the Mafia against the legal marijuana industry. “I think it’s a more dangerous drug than a lot of people realize. I don’t think we’re going to be a […]

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DEA Removes Marijuana Misinformation from Website After Months of Public, Legal Pressure

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DEA Removes Marijuana Misinformation from Website After Months of Public, Legal Pressure | Americans for Safe Access

WASHINGTON, DC — After months of public pressure, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has removed factually inaccurate information from its website. The change comes after Americans for Safe Access, a national nonprofit dedicated to ensuring safe and legal access to medical cannabis for therapeutic use and research, filed a legal request with the Department of […]

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Sewing the Seeds of Freedom After Marijuana’s Big Election Night Win

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Sewing the Seeds of Freedom After Marijuana’s Big Election Night Win | Terry Franklin

An upwelling of discontent has swept our nation over what is often referred to as crony capitalism, the corrupt entanglement of the elites of business and politics. Anger cuts across the entire political spectrum. After the Tea Party, the Occupy Movement, Ron Paul, and the Bernie Sanders Revolution, one would expect the cronies to retreat into […]

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After Nearly 80 Years of Marijuana Prohibition, the Tide is Turning

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After Nearly 80 Years of Marijuana Prohibition, the Tide is Turning | Terry Franklin

As marijuana legalization gains traction across the country, some ask “Why now?” A better question perhaps is “How did this prohibition ever last so long?” People have always suffered the compulsion to hunt scapegoats, and politicians are more than happy to pander to our harshest instincts. With two world wars and the Cold War, the […]

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In Colo., a look at life after marijuana legalization

In Colo., a look at life after marijuana legalization
DENVER — Nestled between a 7-Eleven and a store selling Broncos jerseys, the door to the generic-looking retail establishment is easy to miss. But once inside, the smell is unmistakable. At Euflora, tables are filled with glass containers of marijuana …
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Majority of Granite Staters support marijuana legalization
News 9 interviewed several Granite Staters on where they stand on marijuana legalization. “I haven't really given a lot of thought to it, no,” one woman said. “It's a lot better for people than alcohol, cigarettes, which are legal and widely …
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Molycorp up 10 percent after congressman introduces rare earth legislation

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Coffman, Republican congressman quartz crusher from Colarado, introduced legislation on Wednesday calling for a variety of measures that would better ensure that the United States has secure access to rare earth metals.

Molycorp stock finished Thursday at $ 68.45. The stock’s 52-week range is $ 12.10 to $ 68.79.

Avalon Rare Metals, a Canadian-based exploration company also focused on rare earth metals and minerals, was up. Avalon rose 9.47% to $ 9.13 a share on Wednesday trading.

Some of the provisions national key projects within Coffman’s proposed legislation are the following:

• Directing appropriate federal agencies to expedite the permitting process in order to increase the exploration and development of domestic rare earth elements, without waiving environmental laws, and establishing a multi-agency Task Force to carry out this process;

• Setting up a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) rare earth inventory — where DLA enters into long-term supply contracts and then makes the supplies available for purchase to federal government contractors — to generate a domestic market and facilitate the domestic sourcing of rare earth alloys and magnets;

• Making loans, backed by the federal government, available to start production should lending from the capital markets not be available;

• Requiring the various cabinet Secretaries to appoint Executive Agents for rare earths;

• Establishing a rare earth program at the U.S. Geological Survey.

Molycorp is a Colarado-based rare earth miner that runs the Mountain Pass, an open pit rare earth element mine in California. The mine is being expanded and modernized. Work is supposed to finish this year. By 2013, the company expects the mine to produce 40,000 metric tonnes of rare earth iron ore sotne crusher oxide, a doubling of the mine’s production capacity.

China, which produces 97% of the world’s supply of rare earth metals, is placing restrictions of the rare earth metal exports.

Interest rate rises in a shrinking economy.

Where an economy is in recession and inflation starts to rise from food and energy inflation, the economy finds it extremely difficult to absorb such inflation, in all areas of the e economy. Traditional economics would have central banks attempt to ensure that such inflation does not flow into other areas, but it can only use interest rates to do it. This is like a misdirected sledgehammer in so many cases as it now imposes yet another burden on businesses that are struggling to survive and ensure minimum profitability. The effect of interest rate rises in this climate is to curtail business activity even more. At its worst, it can eventually precipitate a depression. By damaging already weak consumer confidence, its impact is that much greater and that much more difficult to recover from.  If confidence is already undermined, then such further cost pressures send it spiraling downward. The U.K. may experience this situation in 2011 and 2012.

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