A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health – which is an update of a 2011 study – has found that states which have legalized medical cannabis have seen a significant reduction in suicides, especially among young adults aged 20 to 29. For the study, researchers “obtained state-level suicide data from the National Vital Statistics …
Florida Medical Marijuana Treatment Center Institute now open in Miami As the medical marijuana industry heats up, the Florida Medical Marijuana Treatment Center Institute, a medical marijuana training and business institute, has opened in Miami. The Florida MMTC Institute, co-founded by Daniel Curtis and Jan Frel, has scheduled seminars for …
LEGALIZING MEDICAL MARIJUANA A SLIPPERY SLOPE Why am I opposed to legalizing marijuana? When my 18-year-old son was introduced to marijuana, the changes in his personality ruined his life. He became a lazy, moody, insensitive, belligerent stranger, eventually borrowing a car and was killed in a car accident. Sheriff Grady …
How a Missouri Man Could Die in Prison for Weed On a dark rural highway, a week before Christmas in 1993, two Hispanic males barreled east through Missouri in a 1978 Mercury Cougar. Stashed in the trunk was nearly 100 pounds of marijuana. It had taken the men fourteen hours …
Missouri’s marijuana laws made an inch of progress last month, but they are still among the strictest in the nation and yes, you can still get arrested for a joint. However, people with severe epilepsy will have better access to medicine and the severest marijuana penalty in the country has …
by Patrick Radden Keefe Washington’s law gave state officials only a year to answer difficult questions: Who could grow legal pot? Who could sell it? How much would an ounce of the drug cost? Photograph by Maureen Drennan. Keywords One morning in August, Mark Kleiman, a professor of public policy …
Illinois cops, DEA stake out grow store, bust 46-year-old hibiscus farmer After a “month-long” investigation that included stake-outs, digging through garbage, and comparing neighbors’ electricity bills, DEA agents and Shorewood (Illinois) Police kicked down the door of a suspected pot grower at 5am on October 11th, 2013. The suspect was …
Florida lawmakers approve punishing doctors who write fraudulent CBD recommendations Apparently the Florida legislature didn’t get the memo that CBD doesn’t get you high. Currently, lawmakers are working on a CBD-only bill that would give children suffering from rare seizure disorders to access to the extract. It should be a …
http://www.myvoicenation.com/knowa1 Great Resources This is the Scientific justification of 40 yr. of #1 scheduling. Trillions wasted 25 million arrests one every 40 seconds. CNN: On August 14, 1970, the Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Roger O. Egeberg wrote a letter recommending the plant, marijuana, be classified as a schedule …
Recreational MARIJUANA: A Third State May Join Colorado And Washington According to the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska may have an all-time high voter turnout for August’s election. That’s because legalizing marijuana for recreational use is on the ballot along with the primary for a senate seat and several other highly …