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POT TV - The Huffington Post reports on entrepreneurs and investors who are looking to the expanding legal marijuana industry for profits.
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POT TV - Watch new episodes of The Jodie Emery Show each week for the latest news on Marc Emery, CCHQ, and Canada's cannabis community. In this episode: The GEO Group, operators of private prisons including the one in Georgia where Marc was sent, have caused controversy by paying millions of dollars to a Florida University to have their name on the stadium. Read the GEO Group story.
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POT TV - Entrepenuers are rubbing their hands together at the prospect of a "Green Rush" in Washington and Colorado after the two states legalized recreational marijuana in 2012. Will the Obama Administration stand by and watch the taxable profits funnel in or take action to kill the growing cannabis economy? Read more at NBC News
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Jamen Shively, a former Microsoft executive, plans to spend the next year researching and building a retail marijuana business that he hopes will bring legitimacy to a long-illegal industry. Shively said he brainstormed the idea after a few bong hits. He plans to name the business after his great-grandfather, Diego Pellicer, who was the world's largest marijuana producer in the late 19th century. "He was supplying hemp rope made from the marijuana tree to the Spanish armada during the Spanish-American War," Shively said. "So I've got marijuana in my blood, so to speak."
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POT TV - Welcome to Cannabis Culture Headquarters in Vansterdam! Check out the new advertisement for CCHQ (located at 307 W. Hastings St. in Vancouver). We have everything you need but the weed! Click here for more info about CCHQ. Video by Jeremiah Vandermeer.
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POT TV - US automobile industrialist Henry Ford designed cars made of hemp that were powered by hemp biofuel, and the vehicles were much stronger and more efficient than their steel-made gas-powered counterparts. The the program was eventually discontinued and the cars were destroyed for unknown reasons. Read more about Henry Ford's hemp-plastic car here and here.
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POT TV - Where do the billions of dollars spent in the War on Drugs actually go? This video from RT looks at who is getting rich from tax dollars spent on drug enforcement in the US including the "addiction recovery industry", the "private prison industry", the "alcohol industry" and the "drug testing industry". The video includes an interview with Mike Riggs, associate editor of Reason Magazine Watch more videos on Pot TV