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Will Michigan be Next to Legalize Marijuana?

February 20, 2015 at 11:23 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Recreational Marijuana

LANSING, MI — Two separate — and potentially competing — groups are laying the groundwork for 2016 ballot proposals that would seek to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana in Michigan. Jeffrey Hank, an attorney who spearheaded a still-pending legalization effort in East Lansing last year, filed paperwork with the state on Tuesday to form the Michigan Comprehensive Cannabis Law Reform Committee. “We want to do something in 2016 that will give Michigan voters the gold standard for cannabis reform,” “we [...]

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Study: Prolonged Marijuana Use Unlikely to Damage Lungs

January 28, 2015 at 2:46 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

Evolving attitudes about marijuana among the majority of Americans, as well as decriminalization laws starting to sweep the nation, have done little to quell questions about the health effects of longtime use among medical professionals, lawmakers, and people on both sides of an ongoing debate about the plant. Even with a dearth of research, the general consensus in past decades has been that smoking marijuana regularly poses significant health risks. A new study out of Emory University in Atlanta, however, [...]

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75% of US Adults Says Legalization of Marijuana Is Inevitability

April 4, 2014 at 3:06 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization

Follow us: @WeedFinder420 on Twitter | WeedFinder on Facebook By Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director Seventy-five percent of Americans believe that the sale and use of cannabis will eventually be legal for adults, according to national polling data released this week by the Pew Research Center. Pew pollsters have been surveying public opinion on the marijuana legalization issue since 1973, when only 12 percent of Americans supported regulating the substance. Fifty-four percent of respondents say that marijuana ought to be legal now, [...]

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Marijuana Use On The Rise Among Baby Boomers

March 11, 2014 at 8:42 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Like many other Americans, when lawyer Keith Stroup comes home after a long day at work, he likes to unwind by pouring a glass of wine, sitting on the couch and enjoying the news. But first he’ll roll a joint. “If I’m home, not traveling, I smoke generally every evening. … That’s just my routine. It has been for many years,” the 70-year-old Washington, D.C., native told The Huffington Post. Stroup, who founded the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana [...]

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Why It’s Crazy to Try to Set DUI Limits for Marijuana

December 28, 2013 at 9:05 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Come New Year’s Day, Colorado’s pot shops will start selling legal, recreational weed, but there’s still a marijuana law that’s bugging pot advocates—the state’s new marijuana DUI law. Colorado passed a law last spring that presumes you’re too high to drive if you have five nanograms or more of THC per milliliter of blood, even though many experts say there is insufficient evidence to tie that level of THC to impaired driving. “We don’t have a consensus as to what levels of THC are consistently [...]

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What is the Risk to Your Lungs if You Smoke Marijuana?

November 8, 2013 at 6:13 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Medical Marijuana

Researchers and advocates of public health can often come across as “The People Who Say, Don’t!” Then, knowing human nature, they’ll add with a headshake: “But if you have to, then for goodness sake protect yourself.” And you can’t blame them. When you look at big numbers, broad statistics, the individual gets lost in what can be dire, expensive and preventable public health disasters: overeating, STDs, problems related to alcohol consumption … and one of the worst habits causing the most headshaking: [...]

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58% of Americans Want Marijuana Legalized

October 23, 2013 at 8:09 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Gallup released new polling data today that shows an overwhelming majority of Americans want marijuana to be legalized. According to their survey, 58% of Americans support legalizing marijuana, while only 39% are opposed. This is up significantly from the last time Gallup polled the question in 2012, when only 48% of Americans were in favor and 50% were opposed. For historical perspective, the first time they surveyed this question in 1969 a paltry 12% of Americans were in favor of legalization. The support for [...]

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Bipartisan Lawmakers Introduce ‘Respect State Marijuana Laws Act’

October 12, 2013 at 6:35 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

United States Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), along with a bipartisan coalition of three Republicans (Reps. Rohrabacher, Rep. Justin Amash [R-MI], and Don Young [R-AK]) and three Democrats (Reps. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR], Steve Cohen [D-TN] and Jared Polis [D-CO]) are sponsoring House Bill 1523: the Respect State Marijuana Laws Act. This measure seeks to amend the federal Controlled Substances Act to exempt from federal prosecution individuals and businesses, including marijuana dispensaries and/or retail outlets, who comply with state marijuana laws. “This [...]

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Marijuana Initiatives Coming to Wyoming

October 4, 2013 at 7:38 am / Cannabis News

In a sign of changing times, at least two separate marijuana initiative campaigns are getting underway in Wyoming, one of the reddest of the red states. One initiative would legalize marijuana and hemp, while the other limits itself to medical marijuana. The first initiative, sponsored by Wyoming NORML (“established 4/20/2013″), would “tax and legalize cannabis, hemp, and ALL related products and businesses in the state of Wyoming, removing all penalties for use by adults over 21 years of age within the state [...]

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