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Seminar – New Marijuana Business Legislation SB 643, AB 266 and AB 243

How to Start a Cannabis Business – Sacramento.   So, you want know the how to start a medical cannabis business and want to learn how to start a marijuana business with the new marijuana business legislation SB 643, AB 266 and AB 243? Start the medical cannabis collective you have been thinking of and learn about the new marijuana business laws. Get all knowledge and all the right tools in our 2 day workshop.   On 
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US govt-funded agency admits marijuana can kill cancer cells The National Institute on Drug Abuse, a US federal government research institute whose mission includes “bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction,” has officially admitted that marijuana extracts can kill cancer cells. The institute has revised a page on its website entitled “DrugFacts: Is Marijuana Medicine?” citing a recent study conducted by a group of scientists at St. George’s University, London. 
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Cannabis Dispensary & Cultivation Workshop – Sacramento

How to Start a Cannabis Collective & Cannabis Cultivation Workshop in Sacramento. So, you want know the how to start a medical cannabis dispensary? Start the medical cannabis collective you have been thinking about. Get all knowledge and all the right tools in our 2 day workshop.   On June 27 & 28, 2015 – 420 College and attorneys will be hosting a live seminar in the Sacramento area to go over all aspects of 
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How to Open a Dispensary & Cultivation Workshop – Sacramento

How to Start a Cannabis Collective & Cannabis Cultivation Workshop in Sacramento. So, you want know the how to start a medical cannabis dispensary? Start the medical cannabis collective you have been thinking about. Get all knowledge and all the right tools in our 2 day workshop.   On MARCH 7 & 8, 2015 – 420 College and attorneys will be hosting a live seminar in Pasadena to go over all aspects of marijuana dispensary 
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Many people do not know this but, according to People vs Van Alstyne [Crim. No. 25231. Court of Appeals of California, Second Appellate District, Division Three. April 8, 1975.], that “marijuana” and hemp are the same plant. The bill also lets universities to do hemp research and state agriculture departments to do pilot studies. – By Phillip Smith – Drug War Chronicle – 2014 The omnibus federal farm bill approved by Congressional conference committee negotiators 
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By Christopher Ingraham The Post’s Sari Horwitz reports that Obama intends to nominate Vanita Gupta, currently director of the ACLU’s Center for Justice, to lead the civil rights division of the Justice Department. Gupta also currently leads the ACLU’s National Campaign to End Mass Incarceration. Horwitz writes: Gupta, 39, who was born in the Philadelphia area to immigrant parents, has been praised by a wide array of political activists for her civil rights work, especially 
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By Kay Lazar and Shelley Murphy, The Boston Globe, June 6, 2014 US Drug Enforcement Administration investigators have visited the homes and offices of Massachusetts physicians involved with medical marijuana dispensaries and delivered an ultimatum: sever all ties to marijuana companies, or relinquish federal licenses to prescribe certain medications, according to several physicians and their attorneys. The stark choice is necessary, the doctors said they were told, because of friction between federal law, which bans 
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Happy 4/20 — Good News From Sacramento!

NORML Is writing you today with good news from Sacramento. Over the past few days we have witnessed a flurry of legislative action pertaining to marijuana law reform — all of it positive. Let’s begin: 1. Assemblywoman Nora Campos has withdrawn legislation, AB 2465, which sought to mandate that state-qualified medicinal marijuana patients obtain a state-issued identification card. Under present law, patients may voluntarily obtain county-issued identification cards, but no such mandate exists in the 
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