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UK Police Now Allowing Citizens to Grow Marijuana

July 21, 2015 at 12:24 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

Cannabis users in County Durham who grow the drug for their own consumption will no longer be targeted by the police after the force declared the illegal activity was not a priority. In a move, which will be seen as a further step towards decriminalization, Durham Constabulary declared it would only go after people using the drug if there was a complaint or if they were being “blatant”. While the force insisted it would continue to tackle commercial cannabis farms [...]

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You Can Now Fly with Your Cannabis in Oregon

July 13, 2015 at 1:10 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

Airports are going to pot. Passengers traveling on flights within Oregon will be allowed to transport a small amount of weed, after the state’s recreational marijuana law went into effect July 1. According to Fox 12 Oregon, people flying through Portland International Airport, Oregon’s biggest airport, won’t be dragged from the line and hauled away if security officials spot pot. The Transportation Security Administration said its primary focus was to “detect threats to aviation security,” not stop adult marijuana users [...]

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The Revolution of the Hemp Industry

July 8, 2015 at 2:14 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization

STUYVESANT, N.Y. — It started with Hurricane Katrina: the flooded houses in New Orleans festering with mold, many uninhabitable to this day. Then came the earthquake in Haiti: thousands dead, crushed by homes that should have been their sanctuaries. James Savage, then a Wall Street analyst living on Central Park West, grew disturbed about the conditions he saw on television and in the newspapers. “There has to be something better we can do than this,” he recalled thinking last week [...]

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University of Florida Begins Cannabis Oil Study for Children’s Epilepsy

July 4, 2015 at 11:40 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

GAINESVILLE, FL – Dr. Paul Carney and his team at the University of Florida just got the green light from the state to study the effects of a cannabis oil derived from marijuana to see how that affects and helps children living with epilepsy. “It’s exciting,” said Dr. Carney, the UF Health Pediatric Neurologist who is leading the research. “The whole community is extremely excited about this.” Dr. Carney said the project is intended to treat 50 children living with [...]

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Slightly Stoopid Releases New Album, ‘Meanwhile…Back at the Lab’ [LISTEN NOW]

July 1, 2015 at 5:03 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Music, Recreational Marijuana

San Diego-based reggae/alternative/punk/ska band Slightly Stoopid replenished us yesterday, with the release of their eighth studio record, Meanwhile…Back at the Lab. Recorded at their recording studio in San Diego, the album’s title and artwork pay homage to that facility, the creative hub out of which most of their music flows. To celebrate the record, the band will head out on a summer tour called the ‘Everything is Awesome’ tour with the Expendables, Stick Figure and the Dirty Heads. We are [...]

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California: Cops Raid Dispensary at Gunpoint, Eat Marijuana Edibles [VIDEO]

June 26, 2015 at 5:51 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana

Clients of a California marijuana dispensary filed a lawsuit Monday accusing police officers of excessive and unconstitutional actions during a raid last month. The suit was filed by attorney Matthew Pappas on behalf of Sky High Holistic, a nonprofit marijuana collective, against the city of Santa Ana, Mayor Miguel Pulido and nearly a dozen other employees. Surveillance video from the May 26 raid shows police playing darts and an officer making demeaning remarks about a woman in a wheelchair with [...]

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Will Cannabis Consumption Negatively Effect Your Driving?

June 24, 2015 at 2:13 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Recreational Marijuana

A rigorous federal research study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse offers new data on the effects of marijuana on driving performance. The exact impact of marijuana on driving ability is a controversial subject—and it’s become more important states continue to loosen their drug laws. And, while drunk driving is on the decline in the U.S., driving after having smoked or otherwise consumer marijuana has become more common. According to the most recent national roadside survey from the National [...]

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Massachusetts Opening First Medical Cannabis Dispensary

June 23, 2015 at 12:21 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Medical Marijuana

More than two and a half years after Massachusetts voters approved medical marijuana, and a bureaucratic rollout full of controversies and missteps, the historic city of Salem is set to make some modern history as it becomes the first Bay State community with a medical pot dispensary Wednesday. Alternative Therapies Group at 50 Grove Street has surveillance cameras galore, highly secured entrance including what appears to be a bulletproof reception window, and is in an out-of-the-way mostly ex-industrial area with [...]

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Pope Strongly Against the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana

June 21, 2015 at 3:23 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Recreational Marijuana

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis came out strongly against the legalization of recreational drugs on Friday. The pontiff told members of a drug enforcement conference meeting in Rome that even limited attempts to legalize recreational drugs “are not only highly questionable from a legislative standpoint, but they fail to produce the desired effects.” Francis has frequently railed against the “evil” of drug addiction and has met with addicts on several occasions. Just last month, Uruguay — next door to Francis’ [...]

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