After hearing testimony from marijuana caregivers who specialize in growing cannabis strains specifically bred for pediatric use on Tuesday, Colorado health authorities voted 6-1 to
Prior to the 2012 election, when Colorado and Washington state voters approved legalizing marijuana by wide margins, longtime pot reformers used to get together in
Earlier this year, Dr. Lester Grinspoon, professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and author of Marijuana Reconsidered and Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine penned an open
By almost every imaginable metric, marijuana legalization appears to have been given the green light in America, from President Obama’s refusal to close down the
Just a week after University of Arizona researcher Sue Sisley was fired from her job, effectively shutting down crucial, federally approved research into the potential
When Connecticut’s medical marijuana dispensaries finally open their doors, likely sometime this summer or fall, they’ll each have a licensed pharmacist on hand to help
The federal government has been blocking vital research into marijuana’s medicinal benefits for decades — an anti-science crusade that continues today even as we learn
While the past two years have seen the legalization of marijuana for all adults in two states, the expansion of medical marijuana laws nationwide, and
After hearing testimony from marijuana caregivers who specialize in growing cannabis strains specifically bred for pediatric use on Tuesday, Colorado health authorities voted 6-1 to drop a proposed new regulation that would have strictly limited all such caregivers to serving ten or fewer patients. Parents with children who suffer from severe epilepsy and other serious ailments also spoke before the
Prior to the 2012 election, when Colorado and Washington state voters approved legalizing marijuana by wide margins, longtime pot reformers used to get together in smoky back rooms and debate which state would “go green” first. Now, given all the recent momentum for weed legalization, those same discussions have shifted significantly, to the point that educated heads now speculate over
Earlier this year, Dr. Lester Grinspoon, professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and author of Marijuana Reconsidered and Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine penned an open letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell asking him and the league to strongly consider funding research into whether or not cannabis and/or cannabinoids might prove useful in treating Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), “a progressive degenerative
By almost every imaginable metric, marijuana legalization appears to have been given the green light in America, from President Obama’s refusal to close down the cannabis stores in Colorado and Washington, to The New York Times‘ recent high-profile editorial series calling for an immediate end to pot prohibition, to the growing recognition by society-at-large that marijuana is indeed far safer
Just a week after University of Arizona researcher Sue Sisley was fired from her job, effectively shutting down crucial, federally approved research into the potential of cannabis as a treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the state of Arizona officially added the condition to the list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana. This makes Arizona the twelfth state to
When Connecticut’s medical marijuana dispensaries finally open their doors, likely sometime this summer or fall, they’ll each have a licensed pharmacist on hand to help oversee the distribution of cannabis medicine to qualified patients. It sounds great, except that since marijuana remains federally illegal, none of those pharmacists have actually gone through any educational training surrounding the use of the
The federal government has been blocking vital research into marijuana’s medicinal benefits for decades — an anti-science crusade that continues today even as we learn more about the incredible healing power of this herbal remedy. As The Nation recently reported, much of this opposition can be attributed to the outsized power of the pharmaceutical industry, which spends huge sums every
While the past two years have seen the legalization of marijuana for all adults in two states, the expansion of medical marijuana laws nationwide, and even a federal government program designed to help supply cannabis derived medicine to severely epileptic children, that doesn’t mean the Drug Warriors in our government (and their allies in the Pharmaceutical industry) have given up
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