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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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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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Parenting with Marijuana via BuzzFeed News

February 27, 2016 at 4:56 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Recreational Marijuana

A group of women who say smoking marijuana makes them better parents meet every month for a cannabis infused dinner party in Beverly Hills, California. (Parenting with Marijuana via BuzzFeed News | Weed Finder™ News)

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Doctor Says Cannabis Safer than Every Prescription Drug

February 24, 2016 at 1:56 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

With the debate over medical marijuana heating up, some argue that cannabis is safer than most prescription drugs. Dr. Michael Hart of London, Ontario is one of a few physicians in Canada that have chosen to voice their support for medical marijuana. Under a new nationwide program introduced in April, doctors can write cannabis recommendations for patients who they feel might benefit from the drug. Some, like Dr. Hart, have already set up practices centered around the alternative treatment. However, [...]

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U.S. Marijuana Legalization will Generate $8.7 Billion in Tax Revenue

February 22, 2016 at 2:05 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Recreational Marijuana

As Washington lawmakers struggle to find ways to balance the national budget, a significant source of revenue may be burning away right before their eyes. The federal legalization of marijuana would offer a large new revenue stream, according to research from the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. “We don’t know the size of the marijuana market right now, and we certainly don’t know what would happen to the price and the demand for marijuana under different levels of legalization,” [...]

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Worst Anti-Marijuana Campaign Since Reefer Madness Hits Australia [VIDEO]

February 4, 2016 at 5:23 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

This is the worst anti-drug campaign we’ve seen, but it is also the most hilarious. “Stoner Sloth” is a series of videos purportedly meant to illustrate the horrors of marijuana to impressionable teens. The videos star people in large sloth costumes struggling through various life events due to how high they are. At the end of each ad – after the featured sloth has had trouble in class or embarrassed itself at dinner – the tagline “You’re Worse On Weed” is plastered across the [...]

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Big Pharma Kills More People than ALL Illegal Drugs Combined

January 27, 2016 at 1:15 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana

A new study has shown that pharmaceutical drugs cause more overdoses and more deaths than all of the illegal drugs on the market combined. According to the government’s own statistics, listed on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, deaths relating to pharmaceutical drugs rose to roughly 23,000 last year, which accounts for over half of the total overdose deaths in the country for that time period. Additionally, a recent study conducted by researchers with the University of Virginia, University of [...]

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5-Year-Old Battles Autism and Dravet with Cannabis Oil

January 15, 2016 at 2:52 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

For some bizarre reason, there is not a state in the US that recognizes Autism as a qualifying condition to use cannabis medically, except in the case of California where doctors can prescribe cannabis to anyone they feel will benefit medicinally. That’s not to say that activists in some states aren’t fighting and working hard to add Autism to the list, but with the endless stream of anecdotal and peer-reviewed evidence that proves that Autistic people function better using cannabis, it [...]

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The Frontlines of the Cannabis Movement in Australia

January 11, 2016 at 12:55 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Alex Impey is breaking the law selling his customers marijuana, but as long as he keeps hearing stories that the drug is helping them cope with pain, he couldn’t care less. And business for medicinal marijuana is booming, with Mr Impey telling Daily Mail Australia he receives 20 new requests for help each week at his hemp store, Gnostic Hemporium, on the NSW Central Coast, north of Sydney. ’I’ve got people coming in all the time, who have everything from [...]

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