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Last year, Massachusetts voters approved a law making it legal for any adult in the state to possess up to an ounce of pot on their person, and to have up to 10 ounces and a dozen plants on their property. However, it is not legal to sell marijuana in Massachusetts yet, and retail shops won't be open until the middle of next year at the earliest.

Immigrant rights activists and attorneys are warning immigrants that states' legalization of marijuana does not prevent federal officials from deporting anyone over marijuana use. Undocumented immigrants who are caught possessing or using marijuana can be deported from the country and prevented from returning.

Marijuana possession “is still a federal offense,” said attorney Russell Jauregui. “Federal law controls immigration and thus people will still face severe immigration consequences for marijuana conviction/use.”

In January, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center issued a flier advising immigrants not to use or carry marijuana until they become full U.S. citizens.

Medical marijuana was legalized in Pennsylvania one year ago, but the program is not planned to go into effect until next year. As the program ramps up, entrepreneurs have been setting up new marijuana businesses while local governments are tweaking …

As you nervously check your account balance to see if you have enough to cover your taxes and still stock up at the dispensary this weekend, you should know that your Great-Great-Great-Great Grandparents could have cut out an entire step and paid their taxes with cannabis plants.
If you’ve ignored the hundreds of TurboTax emails you’ve received over the last three months reminding you to fork over Uncle Sam’s vig, let me remind you that your taxes need to be filed by Tuesday, April 18th.
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As California legislators bicker and argue about regulations for the state’s impending recreational cannabis industry, the companies tasked with supplying that market are already treating marijuana like they would any other crop - as big business.

We told you a few months ago about how cut flower farms in California’s central valley were being bought up by canna-businesses, and now, according to a new report from the New York Times, those farms have already established cannabis as a normalized part of life in the nation’s agricultural capital.

“California is destined to do with cannabis what we’ve done with every

Department of Homeland Security Secretary and Donald Trump appointee John Kelly appeared on Meet the Press Sunday morning and told host Chuck Todd that marijuana was “not a factor” in the war on drugs.

Kelly discussed North Korea, immigration enforcement, Mexico, and was touching on the war on drugs when Todd went out on a limb and asked the DHS Secretary whether legalizing cannabis stateside would help or hurt his work at the border.

"Yeah, marijuana is not a factor in the drug war," Kelly responded.

A majority of Americans and Canadians believe that marijuana should be legal. The governments of the two countries, however, appear to be moving in very different directions.Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has been a staunch opponent of legalization for years, recently ordered a review of an Obama-era policy under which the federal government agreed not to interfere with state laws on marijuana, as long as the states took steps to regulate its distribution and use. Mr. Sessions’s apparent goal is to make Washington the ultimate authority.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, by contrast, would decentralize authority.

SALINAS, Calif. — This vast and fertile valley is often called the salad bowl of the nation for the countless heads of lettuce growing across its floor.

Legal intoxication is big business and getting bigger. More states have legalized marijuana, leading some in the alcohol industry to regard it as a threat to their profit margin.Those concerns are warranted in some cases. In Colorado, Oregon and Washington, where recreational use has been legal for several years, beer sales are down, mostly among mass-market brews. The liquor industry opposed several marijuana legalization initiatives last year, and has expressed fears for its bottom line.The fine wine industry, however, has not panicked.

On Thursday, stoners around the planet will be rolling joints, packing bowls, baking edibles, and passing the dutchie on the left hand side to celebrate 4/20, the high holy day of cannabis. While we love getting blazed with our closest friends on this annual celebration of kush culture, this year’s a bit different from 4/20s past. In the U.S. we have a new president, and unfortunately it seems he and his pals aren’t as chill with weed as our last head-of-state.