Tuesday, August 11, 2020
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Monday, September 8, 2014
Would Easier Access to Medical Marijuana Reduce Opioid Deaths?
States with laws allowing medical marijuana had reduced rates of opioid overdose deaths, according to a study cited by advocates who say New Jersey should expand access to its own program.
The 10 states that introduced medical marijuana programs from 1999 to 2010 saw a combined 24.8 percent drop in opioid overdose death rates compared to states without such programs, according to a research paper published recently in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
America’s marijuana policies continue to be hopelessly divorced from science rather than driven by it
...Setting aside the fact that cannabis has been used by human populations for thousands of years, thus providing us with ample empirical evidence as to the herb’s relative safety, Volkow’s overall point appears to be this: ‘Since we remain unaware of how cannabis may impact our most vulnerable populations we should continue to criminally arrest, prosecute, and potentially incarcerate everyone who consumes it.’ Does this in any way read like a ‘scientific’ or ‘public health approach’ to addressing the cannabis issue? At the very least we – and this includes Volkow – know enough about cannabis, as well as the failures of cannabis prohibition, to publicly advocate for an end to the practice of arresting adults who consume it responsibly...
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Thursday, August 28, 2014
Dylan and the Beatles Make Marijuana History, 50 Years Ago
CANNABIS
CULTURE - Today marks the 50th anniversary of an important event in marijuana
and musical history. It was the date, in 1964, when Bob Dylan reportedly turned
the Beatles on to weed at the Delmonico hotel in New York City.
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Dylan
rolled a joint and passed it to John, who handed it to Ringo Starr, calling him
"my official taster." Ringo went to a back room and smoked it down,
emerging wearing a grin. Paul recounted, "We said, 'How is it?' He said,
'The ceiling's coming down on me.' And we went, Wow! Leaped up, 'God, got to do
this!' So we ran into the back room--first John, then me and George, then Brian
[Epstein, their manager]."
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Santa Fe City Council votes to decriminalize pot possession
Santa Fe made history Wednesday by becoming the first city in New Mexico to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Hoping to avoid the costs of taking the issue before voters and the uncertainty of the question even making the November general election ballot, the City Council voted 5-4 to adopt a citizen initiative outright.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Proposed medical marijuana rules under fire Advocates say burdensome, vague regulations would forbid pot dispensary in Baltimore
Critics took aim Tuesday at proposed regulations to create a medical marijuana industry in Maryland as a state commission tasked with writing the rules rushed toward a deadline it might not meet.
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Illinois: Governor Signs Hemp Research Measure Into Law
Democrat Governor Pat Quinn has signed legislation, House Bill 5085, authorizing state universities to cultivate industrial hemp for research purposes.
The new law takes effect in January.
Illinois joins more than a dozen states — including Hawaii, Indiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah earlier this year — that have enacted legislation redefining hemp as an agricultural commodity and authorizing state-sponsored research and/or cultivation of the crop.
The new law takes effect in January.
Illinois joins more than a dozen states — including Hawaii, Indiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah earlier this year — that have enacted legislation redefining hemp as an agricultural commodity and authorizing state-sponsored research and/or cultivation of the crop.
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