Despite Legalization, Not Much Known About Effects

Even though 20 states, including Illinois, have passed laws legalizing medical marijuana, swayed in part by thousands of personal testimonies, current research hasn’t nailed down exactly if, and how, marijuana alleviates all the specific diseases the drug is being legalized to treat, experts say. A number of proponents believe marijuana could benefit people with everything […]

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Marijuana Likely To Be Decriminalized in D.C.

Before long, smoking a joint in the nation’s capital might get you in even less trouble than parking on the wrong side of the street on street-cleaning day. Ten of 13 members of the D.C. Council and Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) have endorsed a plan to make small-time marijuana possession a civil rather than […]

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Jamaica: Legal Ganja?

Jamaica's Justice Minister Mark Golding says his office is preparing an initiative to legalize cannabis in the island nation — pointing to the successful state initiatives in the US, traditionally the chief opponent of such efforts by Caribbean countries. High Times

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