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Accommodating Cannabis’ Return

As the cannabis plant is allowed back into society following eighty years of unjustifiable banishment there will needs be some accommodation.  Here’s a small one: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which oversees drug testing for events such as the Olympics, generally sets the standard in determining drugs that should be deemed as performance enhancing, drugs [...]

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Cannabis and the “Gateway Effect”

A central tenant of reefer madness is that cannabis has a “gateway effect,” meaning that if you ever start using cannabis (even once, remember the madness) you have passed through a gate leading to who knows what unspeakable horrors.  As with all of Harry J’s lies, this one does not do well upon a rational [...]

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Reefer Madness Lives!

In Michigan there is a resurgence of reefer madness.  The people of Michigan have made great strides on their way to re-legalization.  But the ghost of Harry J. Anslinger is still with us.  Reefer madness — re-legalization’s hemorrhoid.   We can’t live comfortably with this thing hanging on.  Here’s the outbreak in Michigan:   Marijuana use [...]

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Endgame for Cannabis Prohibition

The prohibition of cannabis is coming to an end.  For the last ten years we have seen an increasing pace of cities, municipalities, counties and the like making cannabis prosecution the “lowest priority” of their always overworked and underfunded law enforcement organizations.  Each of these was a stinging body blow.  They add up. Then came [...]

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OMG: Cannabis Cures Cancer

A while back I said that, should it turn out that cannabis is an active agent against even one type of cancer, let alone all of them, that, upon my passing from this physical world, I would visit with Harry Anslinger in whatever smelly corner of hell he lives, and make sure he heard about [...]

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What Re-Legalization Brings

Oh Canada, indeed. A new study conducted by UNICEF on child well-being found that Canadian kids smoke more marijuana than kids from any other developed country. UNICEF’s “Report Card 11″ found that Canada ranked first out of 29 countries for the percentage of of youths who smoke pot. According to the findings, 28 percent of [...]

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Three Absurd Reasons For Banning Drugs

We are checking out a video explaining three reasons why the prohibition of drugs is absurd.

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World’s # 1 Illicit Substance

Cannabis is consumed by an estimated 75 percent of all the world’s illicit drug users, making it the most widely used illicit substance in the world, according to the United Nation’s 2012 World Drug Report. Of the world’s estimated 300 million (6.6 percent of the global population) annual illicit drug consumers, some 225 million (5 [...]

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Scratch And Sniff Marijuana Cards To Help Stop Pot Farms

The UK is trying a new approach to dealing with pot farms. Just over 200,000 UK residents received their scratch and sniff marijuana cards. It works just like any other scratch and sniff, besides it smelling like marijuana. By them smelling these small scratch and sniff cards they are supposed to be able to know [...]

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Cannabis & Blood Chemistry

Chronic cannabis consumers may test positive for trace, residual levels of THC in blood for several weeks after ceasing their marijuana use, according to clinical trial data published in the journal of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry.   Thirty long-term, daily cannabis consumers participated in the trial. The mean self-reported daily consumption of cannabis [...]

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