Medical marijuana business seminar comes to Bethesda – A seminar on pot? That’s what’s happening Wednesday in Bethesda when the Marijuana Policy Project, a marijuana advocacy group, hosts an educational seminar for people interested in entering the medical marijuana industry. Tickets aren’t cheap; they cost $500 per person or $750 for two people. The event will be held at the Doubletree hotel at 8120 Wisconsin Ave. State Sen. Jamie Raskin, who represents Silver Spring and Takoma Park, is scheduled to attend, along with Sharon Bloom, acting executive director of the Medical Marijuana Commission in Maryland, a state board developing policies, guidelines and regulations for medical marijuana use in the state.
Developable land on Beech Avenue in Bethesda for sale – A 5.6-acre tract of residential land in a desirable Bethesda community is on the market. The property at 5415 Beech Ave. is listed at $9.975 million by the Long & Foster Gateway Team, and can be subdivided into a maximum of 21 lots, according to the Montgomery Newsletter, a monthly real estate publication. The residential area is located near the YMCA on Old Georgetown Road and Maplewood Alta Vista Park. The land is owned by the Potter family and was last sold in 1973 for $190,000, according to state real estate records.
This land off of Beech Ave. in between Linden and Page Avenues in Bethesda is reportedly up for sale.
Marriott settles Wi-Fi blocking lawsuit – The Bethesda-based hotel chain on Friday agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a complaint that it illegally jammed guests’ access to personal Wi-Fi hotspots to make it more likely they’ll buy Internet access from Marriott. The complaint alleged that the Gaylord Opryland, a Marriott hotel in Nashville, was jamming access and then charging convention guests from $250 to $1,000 per device for access.
In a statement released after the ruling, the company said it was protecting its Wi-Fi network “from rogue wireless hotspots that can cause degraded service, insidious cyber-attacks and identity theft.” The company believes “the Gaylord Opryland’s actions were lawful.”
Cabbies protest taxi rents Monday – Unionized cab drivers staged a protest Monday by driving their cabs slowly from Bethesda and Silver Spring to the Montgomery County Executive Office Building in Rockville to draw attention to the rents their companies charge them to drive cabs, according to the Gazette. The cabbies want the county to regulate how much their employers can charge them to rent cabs, which can cost as much as $110 per day, according to the report.