CBD, or cannabidiol, is quickly changing the debate around the potentials of medical marijuana. When most people think of marijuana, they think of the chemical THC because it is the chemical that gets users high. But recently, more and more people have been looking into another compound found in marijuana called CBD. While many doctors […]
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Lawmakers Want To Defund The DEA’s Marijuana Eradication Program
In 2015, the Drug Enforcement Administration gave $ 20,000 to the state of New Hampshire to eradicate marijuana plants, according to federal documents. But the Granite State’s law enforcement agencies didn’t have much luck finding any weed to pull that year – their efforts uncovered a single outdoor grow site with a grand total of […]
Nearly 80 Percent Of Floridians Support Legal Medical Marijuana
Two years ago, Florida voters just barely missed a 60 percent threshold to legalize medical marijuana in the state. That won’t happen this November – at least not if a new poll on the measure from the University of North Florida is even close to accurate. UNF’s survey, released this morning, finds that 77 percent […]
UK Recognizes Marijuana Extract As Medicine
A chemical compound found in marijuana can now be used for medicinal purposes in the United Kingdom, according to the governmental branch that regulates medicine. “We have come to the opinion that products containing cannabidiol (CBD) are a medicine,” a spokesman for the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency told The Huffington Post. CBD, […]
Top 10 Health Benefits Of Marijuana
There is no plant on Earth more condemned than marijuana. We’re talking about a living organism which governments have taken upon themselves to designate as an illegal substance. Despite no existing evidence of anyone ever dying of a marijuana overdose, possession of this plant is still illegal in many parts of the world. Marijuana has […]
So Far, So Good: What We Know About Marijuana Legalization in Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C.
October 13, 2016 PDF View the report. No In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first two U.S. states – and the first two jurisdictions in the world – to approve ending marijuana prohibition and legally regulating marijuana production, distribution and sales. In the 2014 election, Alaska and Oregon followed suit, while Washington D.C. passed […]
So Far, So Good: What We Know About Marijuana Legalization in Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
New Report Finds Massive Drop in Marijuana Arrests, No Increase in Youth Marijuana Use, No Increase in Traffic Fatalities, and Major Fiscal Benefits in States With Legalized Marijuana Tens of Thousands of People Spared from Harmful Marijuana Arrests and Collateral Consequences; $ 552 Million in Tax Revenue Raised in Colorado, Washington and Oregon As Arizona, […]
FDA’s Advice To The DEA On Marijuana
Remember how the Drug Enforcement Administration refused to change marijuana’s legal status under federal law in August? Reform advocates protested that the decision proved that the government’s current drug scheduling system was flawed – and the Food and Drug Administration apparently agrees. Though the DEA released the FDA’s official recommendation to the agency when it […]
Is The Acceptance Of Marijuana Reaching A Tipping Point?
Marijuana is a smoking hot topic in the United States this fall. Residents in nine states will be voting on referendums in November that call for legalization of the ancient herb. For a single nationwide election, that’s an all-time high. Five states – Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada – will decide whether to legalize […]
Medical Marijuana Advocacy
“There was a time in the United States when extracts of cannabis were almost as commonly used for medicinal purposes as is aspirin today,” wrote Solomon Snyder in a 1971 book entitled Uses of Marijuana. In fact, the history of marijuana medical use predates the written word. Every civilization since the dawn of man has […]