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Cloud 9 Cannabis CEO and co-owner Sam Ward Jr., left, and co-owner Dennis Turner pose at their shop, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in Arlington, Wash. Cloud 9 is one of the first dispensaries to open under the Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board's social equity program, established in efforts to remedy some of the disproportionate effects marijuana prohibition had on communities of color.
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New York Debuts New Tools for Fighting Illicit Cannabis Market
Cloud 9 Cannabis CEO and co-owner Sam Ward Jr., left, and co-owner Dennis Turner pose at their shop, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in Arlington, Wash. Cloud 9 is one of the first dispensaries to open under the Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board's social equity program, established in efforts to remedy some of the disproportionate effects marijuana prohibition had on communities of color.
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The Drug War Devastated Black and Other Minority Communities. Is Marijuana Legalization Helping?
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear responds to a question during an interview, Dec. 19, 2023, in Frankfort, Ky. Kentucky will use a lottery system to award an initial round of licenses to businesses competing to participate in the state's startup medical cannabis program, Beshear announced Thursday, April 18, 2024.
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Flags with a marijuana leaf wave outside the Connecticut State Capitol building, April 20, 2021, in Hartford, Conn.
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One State Has a Shortage of Marijuana. Its Neighbor Had Too Much. What to Do?
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Slow Start to New York's Legal Pot Market Leaves Farmers Holding the Bag
Seth Jacobs has about 100 bins packed with marijuana flower sitting in storage at his upstate New York farm. And that's a problem.
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Rich Morris of Toadflax Nursery plants marijuana seedlings for the adult recreational market at Homestead Farms and Ranch in Clifton Park, N.Y., Friday, June 3, 2022. In a novel move, New York gave 203 hemp growers first shot at cultivating marijuana destined for legal sales, which could start by the end of the year. Big indoor growers are expected to join later.
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New York's 1st Legal Marijuana Crop Sprouts Under the Sun
The head start for hemp growers is an unusual way to gear up a marijuana market.
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As New York Preps Recreational Market, Sales Grow on Native American Land
Tribes have been able to tap into a potentially multibillion-dollar market early.
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Gail Hepworth, right, and Amy Hepworth, sisters and co-owners of Hepworth Farms, pose on bags full of hemp plants at Hepworth Farms in Milton, N.Y., April 12, 2021.
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New York Hemp Farmers Eager to Grow Marijuana
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