How did rock star Melissa Etheridge become the keynote speaker for the leading cannabis business event?

Melissa Etheridge is a woman of many identities. She’s a rock star who has made music for more than 30 years, bringing home two Grammys and an Academy Award in the process. She’s an LGBTQ activist, frequently speaking out in favor of gay rights and marrying her partner just last year. And she’s a cannabis advocate and entrepreneur, having recently launched a line of cannabis-infused “wine tinctures.”

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Mr. Schuh cannot be permitted to succeed in his quest to continue the criminalization of Maryland's sick patients. Citizens across our state, in every jurisdiction, deserve access to helpful medication regardless of Mr. Schuh's adherence to a philosophy...

× New side-effect of Washington’s marijuana law: Youth possession now a felony

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A prosecutor in southeastern Washington has charged three teens with felonies for marijuana possession, saying a new law demands the higher level of offense.

The Lewiston Tribune in Idaho reports (http://goo.gl/g8Xhpl) three teens ages 14, 15 and 17 have been charged in nearby Asotin County, Wash., with felonies that could net them up to five years in prison.

The offense was previously a misdemeanor with a maximum 90-day jail sentence.

Asotin County prosecutor Ben Nichols says Senate Bill 5052 contains the new language.

In case you missed it, (I certainly did) comedian, UFC color commentator and outspoken cannabis legalization advocate, Joe Rogan, implied (basically stated) that he and UFC champion Ronda Rousey consumed cannabis before her first appearance on his podcast back in 2011. The host of the Joe Rogan Experience recorded a podcast at the end of August with “Rowdy” Rousey and her coach Edmond Tarverdyan, following the champion’s brutally impressive victory over Bethe Correia at UFC 190 in Brazil.

Biocannatix LLC, based in Upper Marlboro, plans to host a town hall meeting Tuesday in Fruitland.

A fledgling medical marijuana business looking to grow, process and dispense its product in Wicomico County is taking its case to the public.

Biocannatix LLC, based in Upper Marlboro, plans to host a town hall meeting Tuesday in Fruitland. It has proposed building a warehouse near Hebron in which cannabis plants will be grown under lights and processed

To bolster its cause, the company has lined up a roster of speakers that includes Del. Cheryl Glenn, D-45-Baltimore City, one of the champions of the Free State’s new law; and Katherine Grimm, a marijuana industry consultant who has appeared on CNN’s series “High Profits.”

The state wants to add as many as three medical marijuana dispensaries — especially in New Haven and Fairfield counties — and now there are 19 proposals for rolling out the expansion.

Details of the proposals — the names of the applicants or the dispensary locations — weren't available late Friday from the state Department of Consumer Protection. The applications had to be submitted by a 3 p.m. deadline and the details had yet to be compiled, officials said.

"We think we had a great response," Jonathan Harris, the department's commissioner, said. "We have a healthy pool from which to do our analysis and make an appropriate selection of up to three."

Selections will be made by early next year, and the new outlets could be open by June, Harris said.

A proposal to legalize marijuana in Ohio would create a medicinal-only pot farm just east of Columbus.(Photo: Gannett Ohio file)

COLUMBUS – Dr. Suresh Gupta ticked off a list of conditions that marijuana could help alleviate: nausea, cancer, glaucoma, HIV, post-traumatic stress disorder, irritable bowel syndrome.

“And chronic pain. I almost forgot that one, and I am a chronic pain doctor,” said Gupta, a Dayton physician who plans to open a 300,000 square-foot facility dedicated to growing medical marijuana in Pataskala, just east of Columbus.

That is, if voters approve Issue 3, which would legalize marijuana use for Ohioans older than 21 and create 10 marijuana-growing facilities across the state.

Government of Puerto Rico could raise between $ 50- $ 100 million received by taxing cannabis use

The medicinal use of cannabinoids derived from Puerto Rico could represent an increase in government revenue through excise taxes on the sale, job creation in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, clinical research, production of plants, and others exhibited in the printed version of the Puerto Rican Journal of Medicine and Public Health (MPH) Mario Jordi Maura Perez, Department of Finance, School of Business Administration at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Río Piedras.

Ball State's NORML chapter meets every Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Whitinger Business Building.

Andrew Maternowski, a criminal defense attorney and a member of the National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws (NORML) legal committee, spoke on campus Sept. 17 about legal matters concerning marijuana. 

Maternowski, an Indianapolis-based lawyer, said the most important thing for students interested in enacting change is to be aware of the laws surrounding marijuana usage.

"If you're going to [use marijuana], do it responsibly. What doesn't help the movement is doing stupid s—t," Maternowski said. "You can't be part of the fight when you're sitting in the county jail."