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Cannabis use among adolescents with bipolar disorder linked to working memory deficits
A recent study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology found that adolescents with bipolar disorder who used cannabis showed working memory deficits compared to non-users. The research underscores concerns amid increasing cannabis legalization and its potential risks for this vulnerable demographic. ...
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How Hemp Threatens the Corporatocracy
Abby Martin takes a look at the real reason why hemp is illegal in the US, the truth might surprise you.
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Reefer Madness, an Unfortunate Redux
There was a time, back in the 1930s, when scientific data on marijuana was thin on the ground. This left us vulnerable to exaggerated anecdotal accounts of its harms, especially its supposed tendency to induce aggression or even insanity. Seven decades and hundreds of studies later, we no longer have an excuse for indulging the myth of “reefer madness.”
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Weed War: Marijuana Plants Sprout across German City
The German university city of Göttingen is being taken over by marijuana plants. Behind the phenomenon is a group of pro-pot activists who planted seeds around town to stir debate over the plant's illegal status. City authorities are not amused.
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Washington D.C. to consider legalizing marijuana
A bill has been introduced that would virtually eliminate all criminal penalties for minor marijuana offenses in Washington D.C.
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How marijuana could find its way into farmers markets
One day, Colorado residents could be buying weed along with their organic produce, if Justin Hartfield successfully convinces the Boulder County Farmers Market to include a marijuana booth. Hartfield, the California founder of WeedMaps.com, got his inspiration from Seattle's NW Cannabis Farmers Market, which is made up of 20 to 30 growers that sell medical marijuana.
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Mexico could legalize marijuana in five years: former president Vicente Fox
Mexico could legalize marijuana within the next five years, stripping brutal drug cartels of a major source of income, former President Vicente Fox said on Friday.
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The Mysterious History Of 'Marijuana'
The drug has been intertwined with race and ethnicity since well before the word "marijuana" was coined. Turns out there's an awful lot we don't know for sure about the recent history of the cannabis plant.
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Cannabis for Elders: A Precarious State
Those who stand to benefit most from medical marijuana have the hardest time getting it.
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Mexico could legalize marijuana in five years: former president
Mexico could legalize marijuana within the next five years, stripping brutal drug cartels of a major source of income, former President Vicente Fox said on Friday.
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Wednesday's DEA Marijuana Raids May Have Cost Taxpayers $12.3 Million
According to data from ASA’s What’s the Cost? report, the two year investigation and Wednesday’s raids may have cost taxpayers $12,327,732 — and that doesn’t include the cost to prosecute dispensary operators in court, or house them in federal correctional institutions for upwards of ten years or more. While the raids themselves cost just over $300,000, the lengthy investigations leading up to the raids cost taxpayers a staggering $12,014,334
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Legal Weed is Hurting San Francisco's Hippies
Seated on a blanket in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Kenny describes how the park has changed during his ten year absence spent growing weed in the California wilderness. “The hippy kids used to be able to sell their weed real easy at high prices,” he tells us.
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Canada Liberal Party Leader Says Legalize Marijuana
Canada's opposition Liberal Party head Justin Trudeau has called for the legalization of marijuana, putting himself and his party on a collision course with the ruling Conservatives ahead of 2015 elections. Trudeau's stand also differentiates the Liberals from the New Democratic Party (NDP), which has been the progressive party on drug reform, but which only calls for decriminalization.
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Feds Raid Pot Dispensaries in Washington, Where the Drug is Legal.
As state laws decriminalizing marijuana begin to take effect (and grow in number), proponents of access to the drug have been holding their breaths to see how the feds would react. And in Washington State, it looks like several medical marijuana dispensaries found out the answer today as the Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed a series of raids in the Seattle area.
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Uruguay moves to legalize marijuana.
Uruguay's lower house of parliament set a global first last night by voting to give the state control of marijuana production, distribution, and sales.
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Massive scam sends California teens to drug rehab for no reason
We have seen countless headlines of wrongful arrests, innocent people or pets being injured or killed, and a disproportionate amount of young minorities being incarcerated in the name of this failed war. Just when you think that the headlines cannot get any more depressing, or that this "war" cannot get any more bizarre, a story of fraud and lies within California's Medicaid drug rehab program that will make your skin crawl...
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Uruguay to Become First Nation to Fully Legalize Marijuana: Blow to Ruinous US War on Drugs
Given the passage of a sweeping new law legalizing marijuana in the entire nation of Uruguay by their Congress on August 2 (with the apparent inevitable passage by the Uruguayan Senate this fall), the South American nation is likely to become the first nation to set the dominoes of a ruinous US drug war policy tumbling down.
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Mile high city: Inside Denver's billion-dollar marijuana industry
The grow room is modest – maybe 600 sq ft – but it’s one of many at this marijuana farming facility on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado. Apart from a narrow path to let the grower get to his crop, every inch of floor-space is filled with plants. I can’t tell my indicas from my sativas, but I know cannabis well enough from the clichés: the thick, earthy scent; the unmistakably-shaped leaves.
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Marijuana stops child's severe seizures.
Charlotte Figi had her first seizure when she was 3 months old. Over the next few months, the girl, affectionately called Charlie, had frequent seizures lasting two to four hours, and she was hospitalized repeatedly.
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Are young Americans turning against marijuana?
More Americans support legalizing pot than ever before, but some of them may be getting a little burned out on actually using the drug, according to a new Gallup survey.
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