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The Blazin' Bakery, based in South River, New Jersey, is firmly on the legal side of things. Tara Misu, the proprietor, was selling bags of brownie mix at the Joys of Hemp fest on Sunday. The mix contains nothing illegal. It's specially designed to complement whatever herb you yourself choose to mix in. (Incidentally, some people mix pot in...

Medical dispensary owner Alvilda Hillery, owner of Rocky Mountain Miracles, sued police to return her 604 pot plants or pay $3.3 million after she was acquitted of drug cultivation charges. She dropped the suit in exchange for a city dispensary license. By then, the plants had died. "We need uniform rules, and law enforcement would be wise to develop...

Charlotte Figi had her first seizure when she was 3 months old. Over the next few months the girl, affectionately called Charlie, had frequent seizures lasting two to four hours, and she was hospitalized repeatedly.By the time she was 3, Charlotte was having up to 300 grand mal seizures every week. Eventually she lost the ability to walk, talk...

Waterloo mother Cheri Sulker, 47, got in touch with Diane-Marie Williams, who started the Canadian chapter of Moms for Marijuana, after Canadian Moms for Marijuana was launched. She offered to be the Ontario “mom” for the provincial chapter’s Facebook page, which went online at the end of March. The single mother of a 15-year-old boy, Sulker has a medical...

Most seniors are empty nesters, no longer worried about setting an example for their children. They’ve raised their families, they’ve done their careers, and at this point I think they are saying, OK, I’m not jeopardizing my family. Diane-Marie Williams is executive director of administration at Moms For Marijuana International and a grandmother herself.