Category Archives: Politics
Culture Research
Study Finds 1 in 4 Adults in America Used Cannabis in Past Year
Submitted by Marijuana News Quite a few adults in the United States have consumed marijuana [...]
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Cannabis Science Educational Research
Marijuana use during pregnancy linked to autism in babies, study says
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN)In what they call the largest study ever done, researchers found [...]
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Legal Politics
Biden Proposes Fed Aid To Help States Expunge Marijuana Records
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said on Tuesday that criminal records for marijuana convictions [...]
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Culture Legal Veteran's Affairs
NDAA Amendment Would Let Soldiers Use CBD
BY ANDREW WHALEN A new amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act could allow members [...]
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Health and Wellness News Research
Cannabis shows potential for mitigating sickle cell disease pain
Cannabis appears to be a safe and potentially effective treatment for the chronic pain that [...]
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‘Urban-Rural Divide’ in the U.S. Figures Strongly in Marijuana Legalization
With some notable exceptions, marijuana legalization is limited to cities and still a great notion [...]
Sep
Legislators Expect Federal Legalization in 2019
By Pat Beggan Reps. David Joyce (R-Ohio) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) said at the Cannabis Law [...]
Sep
Widows Support Cannabis for PTSD, as Congress Introduces Bill to Legalize Pot for Veterans
The topic of cannabis for veterans suffering from PTSD has again shot into the mainstream, [...]
Sep
GOP Senator Pushes Back Against White House Anti-Marijuana Plans
A Republican U.S. senator who earlier this year cut a deal with President Trump to [...]
Aug
The Mormon Church Increases Opposition to Medical Marijuana Proposal
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church is ramping up its opposition to a [...]
Aug
A New Bill Would Eliminate Drug Convictions as Bar to Student Financial Aid
Tens of thousands of students across the United States have lost access to federal financial [...]
Aug
DEA Increases the Amount of Permissible Research on Cannabis
The DEA increased the amount of permissible research on Cannabis and says it will control [...]
Aug
Four states that have legal cannabis on the ballot this fall
The 2018 elections are less than three months away and cannabis policy reform is heavy [...]
Aug
DEA Wants More Marijuana Grown And Fewer Opioids
Washington, D.C. — The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) isn’t exactly known as big fan of [...]
Aug
World Health Organization Recommends Descheduling CBD
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that “preparations considered to be pure cannabidiol CBD should [...]
Aug
Employees Can Be Drug Tested Because They’re Marijuana Patients, Court Rules
A federal court just handed down a ruling in a recent New Jersey drug testing [...]
Aug
Marijuana-Friendly Gubernatorial Candidates Win Big In Tuesday’s Primaries
It was another big day for the marijuana legalization movement on Tuesday. Voters in three [...]
Aug
Congressman Pushes Federal Employment Protections For Marijuana Consumers
By Kyle Jaeger Drug testing policies for federal employees have gone largely unchanged over the [...]
Aug
Colorado medical marijuana companies embroiled in federal patent dispute
A Colorado cannabis company has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit in Denver federal court claiming a [...]
Aug
How Trump’s trade battles are affecting the marijuana industry
The Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs on China is expected to have a direct impact [...]
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