The Obama administration is currently preparing to make a landmark decision on marijuana laws, determining whether or not cannabis has medical benefits. The decision in favor of the drug would put marijuana out of the USA’s list of most dangerous drugs, the Charlotte Observer reports. President Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substances Act in 1970 […]
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DEA Plans To Decide Whether To Reschedule Marijuana By Mid-Year
The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to decide whether marijuana should reclassified under federal law in “the first half of 2016,” the agency said in a letter to senators. DEA, responding to a 2015 letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and seven other Democratic senators urging the federal government to facilitate research into marijuana’s medical benefits, […]
Radical Rant: Whether Sandra Bland Had Marijuana in Her System Doesn’t Excuse Her Arrest
I’ve been reporting on too many instances of police abuse of citizens to believe their version of events. Why did Sandra Bland have access to an industrial sized garbage can and its liner in her cell to allegedly hang herself with? I’ve been to jail; they take… Read article here: High Times
Study To Look at Whether MMJ Really Helps Users
A $ 2.2-million federally funded study soon will help answer the question: Does medicinal marijuana really help? The grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse funds a four-year project that began this monthat the University of Michigan. Researchers will track the progress of 800 recipients of medicinal marijuana prescriptions. Michigan, where more than 135,000 […]