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When it comes to marijuana legalization, the United States is stuck between two immovable forces. Canada has recently elected a prime minister who favors the immediate legalization of marijuana. Additionally, Mexico’s Supreme Court has recently ruled that Mexican citizens can grow, possess and smoke marijuana for personal and recreational use.

You don't want to be a medical marijuana patient in Kansas. You could face, arrest, prosecution, imprisonment, and the loss of your children. Just ask Shona Banda, who endured the latest chapter of her ordeal Monday.

The Garden City mother faces five marijuana-related charges, including three felonies, and had her 11-year-old son taken away by the state after the boy piped up during an anti-drug class at school to say that his mom "smokes a lot."

Shona Banda uses marijuana, and makes no bones about it. She has publicly said she uses cannabis oil to treat her Crohn's disease and even authored a book about it: Live Free or Die: Reclaim Your Life…Reclaim Your Country!

A lot can change in a month. 

Pendleton City Councilor Chuck Wood, who voted to draft a marijuana sales ban Oct. 20, changed his position and voted Tuesday not to support a ban without letting voters have the final say in November 2016, creating a 4-4 stalemate. 

Without the requisite five votes, the Pendleton City Council was forced to extend consideration of the ban to the Dec. 1 meeting. 

Mayor Phillip Houk opened the public hearing by saying he would only allow members of the public who had not already spoken at the last meeting to voice their support or opposition to the ban. 

Two people spoke against the ban, bringing the running total of opponents and supporters to 12-4 — in favor of ban opposers. 

DANVILLE -- Marijuana has long been banned in many workplaces, but with medical marijuana now being legally dispensed in the state, many employers have questions. Tuesday, they got some answers.

There is still a lot of gray area and employers actually have a lot of flexibility in how they handle the law. A conference at Danville Area Community College was aimed at helping bosses figure out what's okay and what's not okay with marijuana use.

Medical marijuana use is not protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act, even by card-carrying patients since it's federally banned.

In Maryland, the latest official advancement of the fight for marijuana legalization was in September, when Gov. Larry Hogan passed legislation that makes it easier for patients to obtain the drug for medical purposes — but the state's medical marijuana program is now delayed, the Baltimore Sun reported Friday. Furthermore, as of now there is no formal plan to vote on the legalization of recreational marijuana during the state's 2016 elections. 

WASHINGTON — Leading up to his meeting with the Black Lives Matter group Campaign Zero at the Frederick Douglass House in September, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders steeled himself for an argument.

He’d only previously come face-to-face with Black Lives Matter protesters who wanted to interrupt him. But over the course of the meeting, the activists spoke authoritatively on policy recommendations to curb racial disparities in the criminal justice system, while Sanders impressed by synthesizing their talking points on police militarization, community empowerment, and systematic oppression.

The marijuana business is booming in Colorado, with pot sales topping $100 million for the first time in August.

But should investors put their money into the cannabis industry?

The State of Colorado doesn't quite say "no," but it comes close.

Colorado's Division of Securities has issued an "investor alert" that warns folks against pouring their cash into the "next big thing." And the document includes marijuana alongside binary options and digital currency such as bitcoin as business opportunities that may turn into money losers, not big winners.

Keith McCarty surveyed the sharing economy before he conceived his mobile-app startup last year. Uber and Lyft covered rides. GrubHub, GRUB 3.01 % Munchery, and other apps handled food, and Postmates delivered everything else. So Mr. McCarty looked for something just as consumable, deliverable, and profitable but not already taken.

He settled on pot.

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