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Damian Marley shows his love of herb in his music and cannabis business

Damian Marley, part owner of a medical marijuana company, exalts the drug’s benefits in his new song “Medication” on his newly released album “Stony Hill.”

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Sessions’ marijuana task force report gives him no ammo to go after legal states

The task force Sessions assembled to find the best legal strategy regarding states that legalized marijuana is giving him no ammunition to crack down on those states.

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Eagle County poll indicates support for marijuana tax that could generate $2M a year

Eagle County does not have its own marijuana tax, but the estimated $2 million it could generate locally has the county commissioners eager for one.

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California Rastafarian cannabis farm dispute ends with one man dead, 2 deputies shot

A suspect died and two California deputies were shot and wounded in a shootout with an agitated man at a Rastafarian church’s marijuana farm.

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Op-ed: Employers testing for weed will increasingly miss out on good workers

These aren’t jobs where you can say uptight, moralizing employers are prying too deeply into the private lives of their employees. They’re industrial jobs where the risk of accidents — potentially fatal accidents — is high. But is an employee really a danger to others because he smokes a little pot on weekends?

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Marijuana grows leaving more Colorado homes filled with mold

No one really knows how many homes in Colorado are being used to grow weed, but authorities say they’re seeing more houses that have been left with thousands of dollars in damage from often-illegal marijuana grow operations.

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Inside a wild week in weed for Colorado Springs

Secret meetings with the feds, head shop busts and ‘gateway drug to homicides’ talk put Colorado’s second-largest city in the national spotlight.

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Senate committee, rejecting request from Sessions, keeps protection for medical marijuana states

The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved an amendment to protect state medical marijuana programs from federal interference, despite a written request from Attorney General Jeff Sessions earlier this year that they not do so.

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Trading veggies for herb: Produce grower planting cannabis in million-square-foot greenhouse

Large-scale greenhouse-grown cannabis is about to explode in Canada, where a fruit-and-vegetable giant is joining forces with medical cannabis producer. And bigger grows are also a stateside endeavor.

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Trending: Why more and more experienced workers want a new career in cannabis

The Cannabist spoke with several dozen job-hunters making the rounds at the career fair. They shared details about their backgrounds, aspirations and how they’re working to stand out from the crowd.

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