If a state passes a law deeming marijuana a legal substance, the federal government should have no authority over the prosecution of individuals for crimes associated with the substance. This is the battle cry of a recent piece of legislation, which swept through Capitol … Read article here: High Times
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Popular Party Drug Could Help Terminal Patients
Physicians in the United States could be prescribing a popular psychedelic drug by 2021. Researchers learned last week that they have been given a green light by the DEA to launch a clinical trial in an effort to size up the drug's potential in assisting patients with… Read article here: High Times
Bill Could End Police Property Seizure Program
Federal lawmakers are swinging theaxeat a particularly disturbing aspect of the drug war – civil asset forfeiture laws in the United States. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Angus King (I-ME) and Mike Lee (R-UT) submitted proposals in both houses of Congress e… Read article here: High Times
Nashville Referendum Could Protect Pot Offenders
Although the state of Tennessee has not made a lot of noise in recent years with regard to changing itsprohibitionarystance on marijuana, advocates in Nashville have taken it upon themselves to introduce a measure that would prevent the city from spending mone… Read article here: High Times
Federal Hearing Could Lead to the End of Prohibition
An upcoming federal trial in California can determine whether or not marijuana will still be considered a Schedule I Controlled Substance by the Drug Enforcement Administration. High Times
Marijuana Industry Could Be Worth $35 Billion In 2020, If All States Legalize It
If all 50 states legalized marijuana and the federal government ended prohibition of the plant, the marijuana industry in the United States would be worth $ 35 billion just six years from now. That’s according to a new report from GreenWave Advisors, a research and advisory firm that serves the emerging marijuana industry in the […]
Poll: What Could You Do Without?
Here’s an intriguing question. If you absolutely had to give up one of the following items for six months, which is the one that you absolutely would NOT give up? High Times
American Marijuana Taxes Could Bring In $3 Billion
If every state across America would follow in the footsteps of Colorado and Washington by establishing a taxed and regulated recreational marijuana market, the entire country would generate well over $ 3 billion of tax revenue every year, according to predictions from the … High Times
Medical Cannabis Could Block H.I.V.’s Spread
On a warm summer day in Chicago at the International Cannabinoid Research Conference, hundreds of marijuana researchers were giggling. It wasn’t the groundbreaking research they’d just heard—proving the ability of THC, one of the active ingredients in marijuana, to stave off HIV (or RIV in monkeys)—that did it. Nor was it the author of the […]
Study Suggests Marijuana Could Prevent The Spread Of HIV
Should weed be part of AIDS prevention? Daily marijuana use by the HIV-positive could block them from infecting others, the Daily Beast reports: The study itself was fairly simple. For 17 months, Dr. Molina and her team at Louisiana State University administered a high concentration of THC to 4-to-6-year-old male rhesus monkeys who were RIV-positive […]