The Weed Blog Daily Update

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• NFL Players: Marijuana Is Not More Dangerous Than Alcohol
• Federal Government Asking For Applications To Grow Marijuana
• Third Community In Maine To Vote On Marijuana Legalization
• NFL Upholds Josh Gordon’s 1 Year Suspension For Marijuana
• Doug Fine To Discuss Hemp Industry At International Cannabis Business Conference

NFL Players: Marijuana Is Not More Dangerous Than Alcohol Posted: 28 Aug 2014 12:45 PM PDT As long as NFL players are not driving, and are not in public, they can consume as much alcohol as they want. Marijuana consumption on the other hand, is strictly prohibited, no matter what. The sad irony of course being that alcohol is very harmful for your body, rotting your organs and causing other health [...]

Federal Government Asking For Applications To Grow Marijuana Posted: 28 Aug 2014 10:40 AM PDT The federal government grows marijuana at the University of Mississippi, and has for multiple decades. The marijuana is used to supply four federal medical marijuana patients, and for research. Recently the federal government approved a proposal to go from a quota of 21,000 grams in 2014 up to 650,000 grams. The federal government is currently [...]

Third Community In Maine To Vote On Marijuana Legalization Posted: 28 Aug 2014 08:33 AM PDT 2014 is going to be a big year for marijuana reform at the ballot box. Many national organizations were telling activists to hold off til 2016 because it’s a presidential election year. But that hasn’t stopped some of those same organizations, or activists, from successfully getting marijuana reform efforts on the 2014 ballot. Oregon, Alaska, [...]

NFL Upholds Josh Gordon’s 1 Year Suspension For Marijuana Posted: 28 Aug 2014 07:28 AM PDT The NFL suspended Cleveland Browns receiver Josh Gordon for an entire year after he ‘failed’ a drug test, testing positive for marijuana. I say ‘failed’ because he took two tests. The first one he barely passed, and the second one he barely failed. The NFL has a very low threshold for a positive marijuana test [...]

Doug Fine To Discuss Hemp Industry At International Cannabis Business Conference Posted: 28 Aug 2014 06:26 AM PDT Doug Fine, bestselling author, humorist, and journalist behind bestsellers like Farewell, My Subaru and Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution will be presenting at the International Cannabis Business Conference from September 13th and 14th at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR. Doug’s most recent book - Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next [...]