The good, the bad & the ugly of moving pot to Schedule II

Yes, the Drug Enforcement Administration is thinking about rescheduling marijuana. Here are the good, the bad and the ugly unknowns of rescheduling weed.

The good, the bad & the ugly of moving pot to Schedule II

Yes, the Drug Enforcement Administration is thinking about rescheduling marijuana. Here are the good, the bad and the ugly unknowns of rescheduling weed.

Dispensary Security Guard Killed in Attempted Robbery

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Travis and Samantha Mason in a photo from her Facebook page.

Young couples are frequently encouraged to write wills and make estate plans that will be ready in the event of unexpected death - but few of them do so.

Such a tragedy seems too unlikely for most of them to undertake such a sad task.

But Travis and Samantha Mason were an exception to this rule. Why? One reason, Samantha says, was Travis's past as a Marine - a service in which risking life for country is one cost of membership.

“We'd talked about what to do if anything was to happen - what his wishes were and what my wishes were,” she acknowledges. “And he just wanted everybody to be happy. He didn't want anybody really mourning.”

Keeping this pledge will be difficult for Samantha and his friends, family and loved ones - not to mention what Samantha refers to as “his brothers and sisters” in the military. Because while Travis survived his stint in the Marines, which ended in February 2016, he was killed on June 18, at the age of 24, when he was shot while working as a security guard at Green Heart, a dispensary at 19005 East Quincy Avenue in Aurora.

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Rescheduling marijuana: The good, the bad and the ugly unknowns of Schedule II

Yes, the Drug Enforcement Administration is thinking about rescheduling marijuana. Here are the good, the bad and the ugly unknowns of rescheduling weed.

Marijuana: Is it safe? Is it addictive? Sorting fact from fiction

Clashing portrayals of cannabis have endured through decades of research and a gradual easing of public resistance to the drug's use.

Get to Know Your Neighborhood Budtender

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Budtender Jason McDaniel behind the counter at Sticky Medz in Los Angeles.

Behind every counter at L.A.'s medical marijuana dispensaries is an expert who knows what strains are best for pain relief and which brownies best quell nausea caused by chemotherapy.

These experts are called “budtenders,” and their profession is a new career choice, whether they're stocking the shelves and studying labels or learning medicinal properties and caring for the afflicted.

To get to know this quirky group, read more about California's budtenders via L.A. Weekly.

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These Colorado grads scored scholarships funded by weed

Pueblo County has set aside $750,000 from marijuana excise taxes to help Pueblo high school graduates go to college.