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Senator Bernie Sanders has taken the campaign trail by storm and has become a real competitor to Hillary Clinton, who was thought to be a sure bet to win the Democratic Party presidential nomination. Sanders who identifies as a socialist, obviously has some very liberal ideas in terms of taxes and how government should operate.…

In the State of New York, a medical marijuana program is scheduled to be fully up and running by the beginning of 2016. This is not to say patients will actually have their prescriptions by New Year’s Day, but they should have them within a few weeks of January 1, 2016 according to a recent…

According to a recent news article from CBS, an employee was fired for using medical marijuana. The employee featured in the article said she started her dream job about year ago, and it only lasted a single day. The employee was hired for a sales and marketing company, and, as a condition of her employment,…

Stephen DeAngelo is best known as the founder of the world’s largest medical marijuana dispensary. The dispensary, located in Oakland, California, serves hundreds of thousands of patients, and its owner is considered a medical marijuana mogul. When DeAngelo is not running the giant California medical marijuana dispensary, as seen on the popular reality television show,…

With the presidential nomination race season in full swing for the Republican Party, there is a lot of news coming out from the second debate held recently. According to a recent news article from CNN, Senator Rand Paul has been very critical of what he calls Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s “hypocrisy” involving marijuana legislation. Specifically,…

According to a recent new article from High Times, the new medical marijuana statewide regulations in California may exclude people who have been convicted of marijuana distribution felonies from participating in the medical cannabis industry. As the article notes, organizations like the NAACP have been arguing for quite some time that the new regulations could…

According to recent news feature from Rolling Stone, an airplane flight over much of California really demonstrates the effects of the ongoing drought. It is easy to see the drought in the dry hills, brown trees, and dusty riverbeds. It is no secret that marijuana crops use a lot of water, and since there are…

For several months, we have been hearing about how the California state legislature was striving to pass comprehensive medical marijuana legislation. In 1996, a majority of voters approved California’s Proposition 215 on the state ballot, and medical marijuana became legal in California. It was not legal under any federal law, and that created major issues,…

Everybody loves a bargain. In order to help spur the local economy and help families in need of some extra savings to make ends meets, states across the country will announce one weekend or even a single day where there will be no sales tax on a majority of items. There are of course more…

While much of the country now supports medical marijuana, there is a still a stigma associated with the use of marijuana that is causing people trouble in various aspects of their lives. According to a recent news article from WBAY, a veteran of the Vietnam War was denied access to pain pills after testing positive…