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More than 5,000 people packed the Denver Mart this weekend for the Indo Expo's fifth cannabis trade show.

The show has more than doubled in size since it first came to Denver. "It used to be a hometown show and now we’re seeing people from all over the world," Indo Expo creator Chris Olson said.

Black Dog LED lights, a Colorado-based company, has been shining its lights at the expo since it started. It's also seen business expand exponentially.

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Matt Mauro ~ Kdvr.com ~ 

Dennis Peron, the cannabis activist who fired up the movement to legalize medical marijuana in California, died on Saturday in a San Francisco hospital. He was 72.

Also a prominent figure in San Francisco’s gay community, he was credited as a pioneer in recognizing the health benefits of pot during the height of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

“A man that changed the world,” was how his brother Jeffrey Peron remembered him on Facebook. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother Dennis Peron.”

Peron, a friend of slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk, helped push through a San Francisco ordinance that allowed the use of medical marijuana. 

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ORLANDO, FL / ACCESSWIRE / October 5, 2017 / Social Life Network, Inc. (OTC PINK: WDLF), a cloud-based social media and social network technology company based in Denver Colorado, announces the new release of WeedCircles.com, the world’s most accessed business social network for hemp and cannabis business entrepreneurs.

WeedCircles.com is used by business professionals in more than 120 countries -- to help them connect, share information and successfully navigate the constantly-changing landscape of the hemp and cannabis industry world-wide.

WeedCircles.com was officially launched in 2014 and according to its management has gone through a dozen updates over the past three years. This latest version, however, represents a major milestone in the company’s social network platform.

The re-release of the WeedCircles platform includes a major re-write of the network’s base code to include machine learning. This major release that leverages “AI” will provide users with information and business connection that have the highest probability of being valuable and instrumental to their social business growth.

Social Life Network services multiple industries, including many sports verticals and the real estate industry. That expansion has, in turn, helped to raise the bar for the technology the network has been providing to the legal hemp and cannabis industry.

Last weekend brought Seattle Hempfest—AKA the biggest annual cannabis event on the planet—to the Seattle waterfront, for three days of pro-cannabis outreach, activism, music, mingling, marketing, and glorious sunshine.

Photojournalist Jovelle Tamayo was there for Leafly with a question for attendees: “What’s the most surprising change that you’ve witnessed since legalization?”

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Jovelle Tamayo ~ Leafly.com ~ 

A bipartisan group of lawmakers are again calling for industrial hemp to be legally separated from marijuana in the Controlled Substances Act, and advocates believe they might just have the political momentum to succeed.

These are times of cautious but rising optimism for supporters of industrial hemp.

Since 1970, all forms of Cannabis sativa L., including hemp, have been classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act.

Past legislative attempts to remove hemp from the CSA — six bills in the House and three in the Senate since 2005 — all died in committees without a floor vote.

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ORLANDO, FL / ACCESSWIRE / August 10, 2017 / More than 1000 new CBD businesses join the WeedLife Network, a wholly-owned property of Social Life Network, Inc. (OTC PINK: WDLF), over the past year. That's up from 100 the previous year. The CBD industry is wheels up, and taking off!

The WeedLife Social Network has more CBD and Hemp companies from around the world using it to connect, educate and market to consumers than any other website or app online. This puts WeedLife.com at center stage for the fastest growing and eventually the largest market in the world, Cannabidiol (CBD).

Industry experts believe that the sale of CBD infused products, aimed to help everything from skincare to pain management, will dwarf the THC industry by more than 1000% in time. The question on the minds of businesses that have now focused on supporting this next great health movement around the world is how much larger and when. Matt Karnes of Greenwave Advisors predicts at least a $3 Billion U.S. marketplace by 2021, in a Forbes article in mid-December 2016.

Shawn Tapp, CEO of Social Life Network, Inc., the social network technology that operates WeedLife.com feels the experts now need to recalculate their estimates up. Tapp thinks that with the radical increase of new CBD focused businesses from around the world that are using their social network to focus on educating consumers, means the consumer demand will drive the sales much higher than previously estimated.

He adds that for the past six months, their development team has been quietly working on technology that will cater to this new audience, and they aim to heavily monetize this international consumer traffic and worldwide business participation on their WeedLife Social Network.

Hemp clothing is a hot commodity these days. I believe this has a lot to do with people slowly beginning to realize the severely negative impact that today’s fashion industry is having on the planet.

Hemp enthusiast Christina Brittain realized this a long time ago, and decided to utilize her passion for the plant to raise awareness and create clothing that is not only good for the earth, but also for our bodies.

Christina left Pittsburgh in her early 20s to pursue a performance career with an artist collective near Oakland.

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Melissa Joy ~ DopeMagazine.com ~