medical marijuana
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Damian Marley Is Turning Calif. Prison Into Pot Farm
Damian Marley is turning a California prison that formerly housed nonviolent drug offenders into a cannabis-cultivation facility. Marley, 38, along with his business partner Ocean Grown Extracts, will be converting the 77,000-square-foot Claremont Custody Center into a farm that will grow medicinal marijuana for state dispensaries, Billboard reports. “Many people sacrificed so much for the…
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Calif.’s Recreational-Weed Bill Could Be a Game Changer
Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series that looks at the growing legal marijuana industry and its effect on the black community. Sue Taylor, 69, is a force of nature. The retired Catholic-school principal and grandmother of three is also one of the first African-American senior citizen owners of a cannabis dispensary. She’s based…
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Are Blacks Missing Out on the Medical Benefits of Weed?
Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series that looks at the growing legal marijuana industry and its effect on the black community. If you search “babies cured with cannabis” on YouTube, you come up with a plethora of emotional videos. There’s California’s Dr. William Courtney from 2013, using X-rays to show what…