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10 Countries That Smoke The Most Marijuana

June 30, 2014 at 8:48 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The United Nations just released its annual World Drug Report for 2014. The report, prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, summarizes data on various illegal drugs around the globe, including marijuana. Along with drug trafficking updates, the UN also provides a breakdown of annual drug use by country. According to the UN’s latest data, here are the top 10 weed-consuming countries in 2014: 10. Jamaica (Photo: Peter Q/Flickr) Use: 9.86% of the population Status: Illegal, but soon [...]

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WIT Research Shows Marijuana Can Cure Hepatitis C

June 29, 2014 at 8:25 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Hepatitis C has negatively impacted millions of lives, and medical researchers have tried for decades to develop a vaccine with no luck. But today, our team at the Wyoming Institute of Technology is pleased to announce that, with the help of our pharmaceutical partners, we’ve cracked the code and can deliver a cost-effective vaccine and cure to the world within the next 14 to 18 months… and we owe it all to cannabis. Our research into the field of hepatitis [...]

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Why Marijuana Doesn’t Increase Your Lung Cancer Risk

June 28, 2014 at 7:48 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

A new study confirms that smoking marijuana does not raise the chances of developing lung cancer. Researchers from Canada, the United States and New Zealand pooled data from six previous studies spanning more than 2,000 lung cancer cases and nearly 3,000 controls to determine whether cannabis use was associated with lung cancer. The findings, published June 20 in the International Journal of Cancer, showed no link between marijuana smoking and cancer risk. “Results from our pooled analyses provide little evidence for [...]

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Pot Shops Not Selling to Kids

June 27, 2014 at 7:51 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

State regulators and local police in Colorado found no pot shops breaking the law in a series of sting operations launched after legal recreational marijuana sales began in 2014. Mirroring alcohol laws, it is illegal in Colorado to sell recreational marijuana to people under 21 years of age. Medical marijuana may be purchased by shoppers over 18 years old if they are carrying a valid medical marijuana card. Sting operations targeted 20 marijuana stores in Denver and Pueblo in recent [...]

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Americans Are Smoking More Pot

June 26, 2014 at 7:34 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

But global cannabis use has declined Americans are increasingly consuming marijuana but also seeking treatment for problems caused by their use of the drug, according to a new report. The World Drug Report was released Thursday against the backdrop of a country whose states are increasingly liberalizing legal access to marijuana for both recreational and medical purposes. The report suggests that as laws have relaxed toward the herb, more people have begun to use it–from 2008-2012, marijuana use among “people 12 [...]

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Willie Nelson Has Important Political Message for Stoners

June 25, 2014 at 7:56 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Willie Nelson‘s Teapot Party movement, which now has more than 115,000 Facebook followers, was founded after his 2010 arrest for marijuana possession in Texas. His practical (and slyly humorous) advice to fellow pot advocates is to support like-minded candidates. “Get out and go vote,” he says in an interview with CelebStoner News. “If it’s the day to go vote, make sure you go vote before you burn one down. Don’t get high and forget to vote.” The country legend and tireless [...]

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Could a Loss of ‘Natural Cannabis’ in the Brain be the Reason we get Alzheimer’s Disease?

June 24, 2014 at 7:43 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

A rogue protein called amyloid-beta, suspected of playing a key role in Alzheimer’s, is believed to block endocannabinoids in the brain in the earliest stages of the disease. Endocannabinoids are part of the process that allows important signals in the brain to shine through while unwanted signals are shut out. Blocking them results in the brain becoming too inhibited, leading to impaired learning and memory loss. The scientists from Stanford University in California, who reported their findings in the journal [...]

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Watch This Little Girl’s Seizure Stop When Given Emergency Cannabis Oil

June 23, 2014 at 8:45 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

By now nearly everyone that is paying attention knows that cannabis is a highly effective seizure treatment. In the last two years, nearly every state in the Union without medical marijuana laws on the books has seen legislation introduced, in many cases driven by parent advocacy groups comprised of parents of children with severe seizure disorders, most notably Dravet Syndrome. In many of these cases states have rushed to pass legislation approving cannabis extracts that are high in Cannabidiol (CBD) [...]

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Marijuana Considered for Looser Restrictions by U.S. FDA

June 22, 2014 at 8:03 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

U.S. regulators are studying whether restrictions on marijuana should be eased, a step toward decriminalizing the drug at the federal level. The Food and Drug Administration is conducting an analysis at the Drug Enforcement Administration’s request on whether the U.S. should downgrade the classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, said Douglas Throckmorton, Deputy Director for Regulatory Programs at the FDA, at a congressional hearing. Schedule 1 drugs carry the most restrictions of the five DEA classifications and are [...]

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