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Wal-Mart gets green light for grocery store expansion
The Sonora City Council on Monday approved Wal-Mart’s grocery expansion plans, and delayed a decision on medical-marijuana dispensary rules. The council voted unanimously to approve an ordinance allowing The Crossroads shopping center Wal-Mart to construct an addition of nearly 30,000 square feet, bringing its total size to about 150,000 square feet. The ordinance was part of a 50-page petition …

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Colorado waives medical marijuana fees for poor
Poor medical marijuana patients in Colorado won’t have pay state marijuana registration fees or sales tax on the pot they buy.

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Colorado waives medical marijuana fees for poor
Poor medical marijuana patients in Colorado won’t have pay state marijuana registration fees or sales tax on the pot they buy.

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Colorado waives medical marijuana fees for poor
Poor medical marijuana patients in Colorado won’t have pay state marijuana registration fees or sales tax on the pot they buy.

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Colorado waives $90 medical marijuana registration fee and sales taxes for poor
DENVER (AP) — Poor medical marijuana patients in Colorado won’t have pay state marijuana registration fees or sales tax on the pot they buy.

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Colorado wants to set up a first-in-the-nation tracking system of medical marijuana purchases to deter people from buying vast amounts of pot and selling it on the black market.

Patients and marijuana advocates fear they will be harassed by a Big Brother-type intrusion as computers and video cameras monitor every ounce of pot sold in the state. Officials are also considering fingerprinting marijuana patients and keeping tabs on pot with radio-frequency devices.

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Denver Colorado medical marijuana grow- hydroponics. Feel free to ask questions and please leave comments. I also am available for consultations for people who want to grow “legal” medicine in Colorado.

Man pleads not guilty in LA pot dispensary killing
Associated Press – August 10, 2010 12:14 AM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) – 1 of 2 men charged with killing a worker at a Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary has pleaded not guilty to murder.

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Pot-center moratorium extended
MONTROSE — Extending Montrose County’s six-month moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries another year is practical, commissioners indicated Monday when they voted to do just that.

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Letters:Will Tom Tancredo close off Colorado at the border?
“Gearing Up for Governor Tom,” Kenny Be, August 5 Tom Tom Club Tom Tancredo is a right-wing nut job. You people would do well to steer clear. You mi…

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In brief | Police seek help in murder case
KANSAS CITY | Thousands of marijuana plants found Federal prosecutors charged two men Tuesday with conspiring to grow thousands of marijuana plants.

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BRIEFS
AUGUSTA — Gov. John Baldacci has nominated Acting Education Commissioner Angela Faherty to take over as full commissioner of the Maine Department of Education.

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Colorado ski town legalizes pot
UPDATED: DENVER (AP) — Breckenridge made pot legal, Denver rejected a get-tough proposal on unlicensed drivers, and tax hikes were turned back around the state Tuesday in municipal elections that appeared to show a public in an anti-government mood. In Breckenridge, 72 percent of voters …

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Nearly a fifth of Colorado’s medical marijuana dispensary operators could be forced out of business in coming weeks because of new state rules barring some convicted felons from the pot business, federal drug authorities say.

The Drug Enforcement Administration reviewed requirements under a new state law to see how many felons could be forced out of business. The DEA estimates that up to 18 percent of current dispensaries may be shuttered by the no-felon rule.

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Cannabis advocates on Wednesday filed a petition to include post-traumatic stress disorder on the state’s list of medical-marijuana-approved conditions.

The petition argues that medical marijuana can help with PTSD — especially in veterans — by easing depression, anxiety and nightmares. The petition was formally filed at the state health department by Kevin Grimsinger, an Army veteran and double amputee who said he lost his legs after stepping on a land mine in 2001 in Afghanistan.

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Angered by a pair of bills aiming at regulating the state’s burgeoning medical marijuana industry just signed into law by Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D), one group of medical marijuana advocates has announced plans to get a marijuana legalization initiative on the ballot in 2012. But there is already another legalization initiative filed with state officials and ready to go.

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Market Commentary and Intraday News
(AP:PROVIDENCE, R.I.) Gambling, wind energy, pension reform and education aid dominated the agenda of the Rhode Island General Assembly this year, as lawmakers in a state with a double-digit unemployment rate scrambled for ways to find extra revenue and cut costs.

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Voters To Decide Vehicle Fee To Fund Parks
California voters will decide this fall whether to increase the state’s vehicle license fee $18 to help fund state parks.

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U.S. judge blocks Colorado petition measure
DENVER – Conservative activists convinced a federal judge Friday to block a state law that makes it harder to put initiatives on the ballot.

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