I remember the first time I set foot inside a recreational marijuana dispensary. It was May 2014, and the pot shop was a highly awarded location, the Clinic Colorado. Smoking pot was nothing new to me, but buying weed legally certainly was. And the options! The options gave me a stoner hard-on that only Colorado…
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Cannabis has shown a lot of potential in the treatment of post-traumatic stress (PTSD). Though some states prevent PTSD patients from accessing medical marijuana, others have readily included it in their list of qualifying conditions. Our Marijuana and PTSD series aims to explain how and why this herb may be a useful tool for those…
DetailsProposed municipal regulations to govern the budding Victoria marijuana dispensary businesses are expected to weed out a number of pot shops downtown. The proposed changes go before councillors this week and, if approved, city staff expect to have the necessary bylaw changes ready by June. Once the zoning bylaw has been changed, shop owners would…
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Market Analysis: All indices, with the exception of the Kind Index, finished April above their previous month’s average. The Mids rollercoaster continued in April as the index jumped up $10 as it recovered from a 17-month low average in March. The Schwag Index experienced the biggest gain, closing April $22 above its previous month’s average.…
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At the end of March, Harper’s Magazine published a 22-year-old interview in which top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman admitted that the War on Drugs was largely initiated to target “black people” and “the antiwar left.” Ehrlichman is quoted as saying: We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black,…
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It was a full week in the fight to legalize marijuana in the United States. Some of the most exciting news comes from Maine, where advocates learned that a recreational marijuana initiative has been officially cleared for the November ballot. Other highlights include the advancement of a ballot measure intended to bring down prohibition in…
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It turns out that instead of listening to Nancy Reagan’s famous “Just Say No” drug war mantra, lots of people 55+ are just saying yes to using marijuana to fix what ails them. A CBS Sunday Morning news segment reported how baby boomers increasingly are turning to weed to combat insomnia and as a substitute…
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An Alliance Ohio man who got a police officer’s help to find a bit of marijuana lost in his yard has been charged with misdemeanor drug abuse. The patrolman’s body camera video shows an intoxicated man admitting he lost the drug. The Alliance officer says he doesn’t want children to find it and then locates…
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A new study to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting will report that one in six infants and toddlers admitted to a Colorado hospital with coughing, wheezing, and other symptoms of bronchiolitis tested positive for marijuana exposure. The study, “Marijuana Exposure in Children Hospitalized for Bronchiolitis,” recruited parents of previously healthy children…
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Women using marijuana during pregnancy have an increased risk of spontaneous pre-term birth, according to new research. “Women who continue to use marijuana at 20 weeks’ gestation are five times more likely to deliver pre-term than those who do not use it”, says University of Auckland Professor Lesley McCowan, a specialist in maternal fetal medicine…
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For some states and individuals, the marijuana business can mean big bucks. In 2015, Colorado’s weed business resulted in almost $1 billion in sales and more than $335 million in marijuana taxes and fees, $35 million of which leaders earmarked for school construction projects. The drug is still illegal in Tennessee, and although legislation to…
DetailsMany patients suffering from epilepsy – who have for years been slaves to prescription medication that offers little to no relief from their seizures – have been seeing positive, sometimes life changing, results from CBD-rich marijuana extracts. Watch the video below to see for yourself. Currently, an average of 2.2 million people are affected by epilepsy…
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