For decades the only part of pot that mattered was tetrahydrocannabinol, a.k.a. THC — the chemical component that gets you high. But weed users are now turning their attention to another ingredient: canna-bidiol, or CBD. It doesn’t get you stoned, but it may help you feel better. Think of CBD as what puts the “medical” […]
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What Is Hemp? Marijuana’s Industrial Counterpart
Hemp. It’s a word you have probably heard more than once, and probably had some questions about at the time. Is it marijuana? Is it legal? Why does my vegan friend preach its health prowess? In short, hemp is cannabis, but it is not marijuana, though marijuana is also cannabis. Confused? Read on to find […]
Everything You Need to Know About Marijuana’s Most Medicinal Molecule
In 2009, a handful of CBD-rich cannabis strains were discovered serendipitously in Northern California, America’s cannabis breadbasket, where certified patients could access medical marijuana legally. Thus began a great laboratory experiment in democracy involving CBD-rich cannabis therapeutics. The advent of whole plant CBD-rich oil as a grassroots therapeutic option has changed the national conversation about […]
New Study Suggests Marijuana’s Impact On Crash Risk Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Pot prohibitionists frequently warn that legalization will flood the roads with dangerously stoned drivers, leading to a surge in traffic fatalities. So far there is not much evidence of such a surge in Colorado or Washington, where marijuana was legalized in 2012. A new study may help explain why: It looks like marijuana’s impact on […]
Radical Rant – Kids After Legalization: Marijuana’s Not Risky But It’s Harder To Get
During the medical marijuana era and into the marijuana legalization era, kids are finding it harder to acquire marijuana, they think marijuana use is less risky, they disapprove of marijuana use less, they support marijuana prohibition less, and they are using marijuana … Read article here: High Times
Radical Rant: Cigarette Smoking At All-Time Lows (But Media Hypes Marijuana’s Rise)
The latest data from the annual Monitoring the Future study is out, covering the results of their survey of young people’s use of drugs. According to the survey, 5.9 percent of undergraduate college studentsare smoking pot daily, the highest recorded rate sinc… Read article here: High Times
Oregon Marijuana ‘Education’ Only Occurs When Marijuana’s on the Ballot
My colleague Jennifer Alexander has been doing incredible work digging through the Internet archives to expose so-called community education on marijuana for what is — blatant political propaganda funded by taxpayers to defeat marijuana legalization. High Times
A Myth-Shattering Look at Medical Marijuana’s Impact on Human Health
The legalization of cannabis is a complex issue, but as we're proving, if the masses become educated they will support the movement. This film is a great piece of such education to spread to yourlawmakers and skeptics. High Times
Advocates Appeal Marijuana’s Federal Status as a Dangerous Drug with No Medical Value to U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, DC — Medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed a petition for writ of certiorarion Monday with the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal a January Circuit Court decision that maintained marijuana’s current federal status as one of the most dangerous drugs with no medical value. In the widely watched case ASA v. Drug Enforcement Administration, […]
Marijuana’s March Toward Mainstream Confounds Feds
It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of “Reefer Madness” to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of “Just Say No.” The next 25 years took the nation from Bill Clinton, who famously “didn’t inhale,” to Barack Obama, who most emphatically did. And now, in […]