Feb. 21–DALLAS — Congressman Pete Sessions used a speech to a group of doctors and other healthcare providers at an opioid epidemic summit Tuesday to suggest that marijuana is the gateway to addiction and as a campaign against the medical and recreational legalization movement. The Republican from Dallas called the rising number of deaths from…
DetailsA bill that would seal the records of marijuana possession convictions prior to Feb. 24, 2015 — when marijuana possession was officially legalized — has been sponsored by Democratic Reps. Harriet Drummond, Ivy Spohnholz and Geran Tarr. The bill would neither expunge charges, nor would the possession conviction be sealed if they were attached to…
DetailsAs the opioid crisis deepens in many places across the country, an increasing number of researchers and advocates are looking at legal marijuana as a possible solution. But a new study suggests that the connection between the two is more complicated than previously understood. The study, which was published online this month by the Journal…
DetailsThe government of the United Kingdom is denying a six-year-old with a rare form of epilepsy a license to treat his condition with cannabis oil, which evidence suggests can successfully reduce seizures among pediatric patients. The six-year-old, Alfie Dingley, is from Kenilworth, Warwickshire, but is now moving to the Netherlands with his family, where he…
DetailsDid you know thousands of people are trading prescription anxiety medications, like Xanax and Klonopin, for CBD oil? But what is CBD? And what are CBD oil benefits? We spoke with an integrative cannabis physician to see what effects CBD oil has, and how you can use CBD for anxiety. What is CBD? CBD, or…
DetailsFeb. 20–SUNNY HILLS — Garland Harp of Sunny Hills had a somewhat unique New Year’s Resolution this year. “I was determined to come completely off opioids,” said Harp, who has had seven back surgeries spanning from 1986 to 2017 as a result of an injury suffered while working at a Georgia lumber company in 1985.…
DetailsOlympic medalist Ross Rebagliati explains how cannabis improves athletic training, what it was like to get his medal stripped for testing positive for THC, why he prefers edibles and more. The day after Ross Rebagliati became the first man ever to nab the gold medal for snowboarding in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan,…
DetailsA Colorado cannabis activist arrested in Oklahoma on drug charges following a traffic stop claims a state trooper targeted the vehicle she was driving because it had Colorado license plates. Regina Nelson, CEO of Boulder-based ECS Therapy Center, her adult son Bryan Laufenberg, and Michael E. Browning were arrested in Pittsburg County, Okla., on Sunday, Brianna Bailey…
DetailsBonita Money is exhausted. Worn out, she tells me, from a string of speaking engagements that had her traveling the world last year promoting her cannabis-based skin product, That Glass Jar. But the self-promotion helped to serve a larger mission that’s become Money’s true passion: ensuring that black people gain a foothold in the burgeoning…
DetailsHistory seems to repeat itself with big pharma introducing drugs to treat conditions that only create new, worse conditions. These days it’s opioids, which have led to one of the biggest drug crises in American history. Opioid-based drugs like OxyContin, Fentanyl and Vicodin were pushed mercilessly hard during the 90s and early 2000s, and a new…
DetailsWASHINGTON – Everybody went to high school with Matt Gaetz, in some form. You know the type. Contrarian, but well-argued. Obnoxious, but not a bully. An OK baseball player, but a much better debater: loud, fast and fearsome. Not boastful of family money, but not stealth about it either. You pictured him becoming a litigator,…
DetailsFifteen years ago, the state of California created a license for medical marijuana patients to legally consume, cultivate, possess or transport medical marijuana within the state. The card offered medical marijuana patients a tangible form of identification, further legitimizing California’s 1996 Compassionate Use Act, which established California as the first state to legalize medical marijuana.…
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