DETROIT (WXYZ) - You could say that one Detroit medical marijuana dispensary is taking gift giving to an all time high.

Green Door Alternative plans to hand out free Thanksgiving turkeys next week. They say it's part of an effort to give back to their community southwest Detroit.

Dispensary manager Larry Hanna says the turkey are, “For someone who does not have any ends to get what they need to for their Thanksgiving-time.”

The pot professionals are giving away the free birds on Monday. They say they are also collecting coats for Gleaners Food Bank.

“We have been in the city for a couple of years now,” said Hanna.  “I’ve been in the city my whole life.  So we are very vested in the city.  So it’s good to give back.”

Earlier this month a group of women in Oregon's marijuana industry came up with a plan to donate baskets complete with turkeys and the fixings for a Thanksgiving Day meal for 20 needy families in Eugene.

The group, Women Leaders in Cannabis, turned to the Oregon Department of Human Services, hoping the agency would get the baskets to families.

At first, an agency employee based in the Eugene office welcomed the gift, said Lindsey Jacobsen, a founder of the group. But a few days later, the state reversed course, saying staff was spending too much time making arrangements for the gift.

The real reason, as Jacobsen suspected, was the gift's connection to cannabis.

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Given the healthy trends Uber has been following by delivering flu shots to riders, celebrating National Cat Day as part as their UberHEALTH campaign. If marijuana is legalized under Federal Law, could Uber start delivering medical marijuana to riders in the future?

Company spent months ushering tenant through the arduous permitting process that culminated in a CUP approval yesterday 

BOULDER — Nascent cannabis entrepreneurs from Canopy Boulder’s fall class faced a tough crowd of investors at eTown Hall on Wednesday, fielding questions about unproven business models and inflated valuations during an investor preview round of pitches.

Teams from nine companies presented in private sessions to groups of local investors, a warm-up of sorts to the public event Wednesday evening. About 30 investors were in attendance, full of advice for the green businesses.

“Don’t pitch me a product; pitch me the market,” said Don Grede, chief capital officer for California-based Aquarius Cannabis, a marijuana branding company. “You should be able to tell me why I should invest without even identifying the product.”

One of the companies we have become more favorable on is CannaVest Corp. (CANV). The company develops, produces, markets, and sells raw materials and end consumer products containing the hemp plant extract, cannabidiol (CBD). CANV is currently establishing pilot hemp growing operations in the United States with the goal of establishing domestic industrial hemp operations in the future. CANV refines CBD into its own PlusCBD Oil brand and it also resells raw industrial hemp product to third parties. The company’s subsidiaries include: US Hemp Oil, LLC, and CannaVest Laboratories, LLC.

Pregnant women may need to think twice before using marijuana to ease morning sickness or relax their aching body — they could be putting their baby at risk. The American Medical Association (AMA) announced on Monday it will push for warnings to be added to medical and recreational pot products wherever they’re sold.  

Latino USA recently aired a story on Yvona Rodriguez, Marine combat veteran who served two tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan (see full story, below). Like many combat vets, Rodriguez struggles with PTSD, psychological trauma that resulted from his service. Like some of his peers, Rodriguez turned towards marijuana to help with PTSD. Unlike other veterans, though, Rodriguez is an immigrant.