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Cannabeginners: What Are Synthetic Cannabinoids?
Some are legal, some are dangerous—learn the difference.
U.S. Reports More Than 100,000 Overdose Deaths In One Year
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported that over 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the U.S. over a one-year period.
College-Age Adults Getting High at Historic Levels
College students are using cannabis and psychedelics at a higher rate than past years, while alcohol use is at a record low rate.
Nobody Likes Marijuana in Schedule I—Not Even Prohibitionists
These days, you don’t have to look very hard to find people unwilling to accept the obvious. Take…
Feds Admit Marijuana May Treat Opiate Crisis
For now, the United States is still (mostly) a free country, and people are (within limits) allowed to…
Federal Agency Stops Asking If Medical Marijuana Is Real
Earlier this month, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) updated its web page on medical marijuana. The…
Lousy Federal Weed Production Holds Back Research
How can scientists study marijuana when their research weed is lousy? It doesn’t have to be this way.…
What NIDA Isn’t Telling You About Pot and Pregnancy
In December, the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA) published an op-ed by Nora Volkow, the director of the…
New Study: Marijuana Research is Questionable, Because the Research Weed is Bunk
Flush with victory after marijuana’s near-sweep on election day last week, cannabis users have another cause to be…
NIDA Admits That Marijuana Has Medicinal Value
The United States government has surprisingly allowed one of its most prominent drug warriors to admit that, despite…