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Elton John sang of needing ‘Three days on a diet of cocaine and wine, and a little weed just to level me sometime.’ 

Lowell George of the band Little Feat crooned ‘And if you’ll give me weed, whites and wine, and you show me a sign, I’ll be willin’.’ 

The fruits of the vine and the blossoms of the cannabis plant have been enjoyed together for much longer than the two have appeared in popular song lyrics. But they’ve only recently become business bedfellows in America.

On 15 August, just 13 days after the second annual Wine and Weed...

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