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Study: Non-Psychotropic Plant Cannabinoids Counteract Prostate Cancer Growth
[Editor's note: This post is excerpted from this week's forthcoming NORML weekly media advisory. To have NORML's news alerts and legislative advisories delivered straight to your in-box, sign up here.]...
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Chicago: City Council Votes To Remove Criminal Misdemeanor Penalties For Pot...
The American public is fed up with the criminalization of cannabis. And now, more and more politicians are finally starting to get the message. This afternoon, members of the Chicago City Council voted...
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US News & World Report: ‘Is It Time To Scale Back The War On
The editors at US News & World Report are asking the question, ‘Is it time to scale back the war on drugs?’ They’ve assembled a round-table of participants to respond. Arguing in favor politics as...
View ArticleCongressional Lawmakers Reintroduce Truth In Trials Act
A bipartisan coalition of Congressional lawmakers yesterday reintroduced federal legislation to provide state-authorized medical marijuana patients and their providers with an affirmative defense from...
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Alternet: “Five Scientific Conclusions About Cannabis That The Mainstream...
Writing in the journal Science some four decades ago, New York State University sociologist Erich Goode documented the mainstream media’s complicity in maintaining cannabis prohibition. He observed:...
View ArticleScientific Review: “There Is Now Clear Evidence That Cannabinoids Are Useful...
For the second time in recent months, a scientific paper published in a peer-reviewed journal has thoroughly rebutted the present Schedule I status of cannabis under US federal law, which states that...
View ArticleMichigan: Grand Rapids Voters Will Decide On $25 Fine-Only Offense For Pot...
Voters in Grand Rapids, Michigan will decide this November on a municipal measure to depenalize marijuana possession offenses to a non-criminal, fine-only offense. The City Commissioner’s office has...
View ArticleStudy: Non-Psychotropic Cannabinoid “Proven To Be Safe” In Humans
The oral administration of the non-psychotropic cannabis plant constituent cannabidiol (CBD) is safe and well tolerated in humans, according to clinical trial data published online by the journal...
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Montana: Supreme Court Says Patients Possess No Fundamental Right To Cannabis
Members of the Montana Supreme Court ruled 6 to 1 on Tuesday that patients do not possess a fundamental right to access and consume cannabis for therapeutic purposes. The decision reverses a District...
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Federal Cannabis Prohibition Turned 75-Years-Old on October 1
In a milestone that will no doubt go largely unnoticed by the mainstream media, today marks the 75th anniversary of the enactment of federal marijuana prohibition. On October 1, 1937, the US government...
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