This coming Election Day, nearly 20 percent of American states will vote on whether to legalize marijuana. In exactly a week, we’ll know whether Florida voters joined the legal-pot club. For the second straight election, Orlando superlawyer John Morgan has backed a massive campaign to legalize medical marijuana for patients with debilitating illnesses such as […]
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Florida Voters Will Likely Get to Decide on Medical Marijuana This Year
Although Florida lawmakers approved an ultra-restrictive medical marijuana program two years ago, state health officials are still nowhere even close to organizing the regulatory affairs that are supposed to eventually allow the distribution of low-THC cannabis products t… Read article here: High Times
Cannabis Consumers 54% Less Likely To Have Metabolic Syndrome
A recent study from the University of Miami has shown that those who partake in cannabis are half as likely to have metabolic syndrome, a condition that puts people at risk for heart attack, diabetes and stroke. Read article here: High Times
New Report Predicts Which States Are Most and Least Likely to Legalize Pot By 2017
As the 2016 election looms in the distance, with a number of states working to put initiatives aimed at legalizing marijuana on their respective ballots, everyone from the studied cannabis activist to the average stoner has come crawling out of the woodwork in an attempt … Read article here: High Times
Study: As Pot Prohibition Slowly Becomes Thing of the Past, Consumers Less Likely to Abuse It
The outcome of legalizing marijuana has not had the effect that prohibitionists warned and expected. The behavioral and psychological problems that they feared would follow legalization have not materialized. Read article here: High Times
Texas House Approves Worthless Medical Marijuana Bill, Likely Will Become Law
Texas may be on its way to legalizing medical marijuana, but many proponents say the bill is completely worthless in its current form. Nevertheless, the state’s House of Representatives put their preliminarily seal of approval on a measure earlier this week, aimed a… Read article here: High Times
Marijuana Likely to Become Stronger Due to Global Warming
Pot grown outdoors in California could become much more potent as climate change and drought continue to wreak havoc on the state's fragile ecosystems. Read article here: High Times
Study: Women More Likely to View Marijuana as Risky
Women are twice as likely as men to believe that regular cannabis consumption poses “great risk,” according to a demographic analysis published this month in the journalDrug and Alcohol Dependence. Read article here: High Times
Study: Smarter People More Likely to Use Drugs
In our formative years, the system tells us that only stupid people use drugs, but a recent study suggests the contrary: smart people are the ones with a voracious appetite for mind-altering substances. High Times
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 […]