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Willie Nelson Tells Jokes

April 29, 2016 at 1:15 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Recreational Marijuana

Today, Weed Finder is celebrating the 83rd birthday of, Willie Nelson! The Red Headed Stranger continues to touch lives everywhere he goes, but his reach extends beyond his music. Check out this short video of Willie telling jokes when he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live. And go wish the Highwayman a Happy Birthday at the links below! Willie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WillieNelson/?fref=ts Willie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/willienelson Willie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willienelsonofficial/?hl=en Willie on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/WillieNelsonVEVO (Willie Nelson Tells Jokes – [...]

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Poll: Cannabis is More Popular than any Presidential Candidate

April 28, 2016 at 2:14 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

In three key swing states, marijuana legalization is more popular than any potential 2016 presidential contender. That’s according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted in March. More than 80 percent of adults in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida support medical marijuana, according to the survey. Fifty one percent of Pennsylvanians, 52 percent of Ohioans and 55 percent of Floridians also support legalizing small amounts of marijuana for personal use. Recreational weed is polling just a hair better than Hillary Clinton in all three [...]

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How Cannabis Fights Breast Cancer

April 27, 2016 at 2:04 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana

It’s not new news that cannabis may be helpful in treating cancer, specifically breast cancer. Now, researchers are gaining a more nuanced understanding of how cannabis can be an effective treatment. According to research from the California Pacific Medical Research Center published last year, CBD, the non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis, can help inhibit metastasis in breast cancer cells. Metastasis is a tumor’s ability to spread throughout the body. “We have found [CBD] inhibits key genes involved in tumor progression [...]

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Is the DEA Preparing to Reclassify Cannabis this Summer?

April 7, 2016 at 2:18 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

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, doesn’t indicate whether it will reclassify marijuana as less dangerous. The U.S. has five categories, or schedules, classifying illegal drugs or chemicals that can be [...]

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Could Changing Laws Turn the Cannabis Industry Corporate? [VIDEO]

March 25, 2016 at 3:55 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

(Could Changing Laws Turn the Cannabis Industry Corporate? – Weed Finder™ News | Video Credit: NowThis Weed)

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Washington and Colorado to Remove Residency Requirements for Cannabis Investors

March 24, 2016 at 4:36 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board this week introduced a rule that will allow investors from around the U.S. to help finance the state’s exploding legal marijuana industry. Oregon approved a similar practice last month, and Colorado is expected to follow suit, eliminating its two-year residency requirement for financiers. Though the change comes with risks of Big Marijuana or criminal cartels entering the markets, the states are moving quickly to attract more investors in expectation that California, with a [...]

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Supreme Court Refuses to Consider States’ Lawsuit Against Recreational Cannabis

March 22, 2016 at 12:33 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a lawsuit from Nebraska and Oklahoma against Colorado’s regulated sales of marijuana for recreational use, removing a major threat to the multibillion-dollar state-legal cannabis industry. Possession of marijuana for any reason outside limited research remains a federal crime, and marijuana reform advocates feared an unfavorable ruling would take a wrecking ball to laws in four states that allow recreational pot sales and medical marijuana laws in many others. Colorado’s neighbors argued [...]

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Drug Trial for ‘Synthetic Cannabis’ Kills One, Morbidly Handicaps Three

March 16, 2016 at 2:10 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana

A man who was left brain-dead after a drugs trial in France, went seriously wrong has died, according to the hospital which had been treating him. Five other volunteers were also hospitalized after taking the trial painkiller, initially said to be a new ‘synthetic cannabis,’ on January 7 are now ‘in a stable condition’, according to the statement released by the hospital in Rennes. But three of the men are suffering a ‘handicap that could be irreversible’, according to Pierre-Gilles [...]

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Australia Legalizes Medical Marijuana

March 7, 2016 at 5:36 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The Australian Parliament passed a measure Wednesday legalizing medical marijuana. The amendments to the Narcotic Drugs Act will allow cannabis to be legally grown for medical and scientific purposes for the first time in Australia. “This is a historic day for Australia and the many advocates who have fought long and hard to challenge the stigma around medicinal cannabis products so genuine patients are no longer treated as criminals,” Minister for Health Sussan Ley said in a statement. “This is [...]

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