Browsing: Marijuana

Marijuana has long been made illegal and criticized. But the Drug Enforcement Agency may soon make a big change that could help patients nationwide.

Before 4/20, officials in Massachusetts who oversee cannabis are cautioning individuals who make their own edibles at home to proceed with caution.

The Florida Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the state’s voters can vote on whether to protect abortion rights and legalize the recreational use of marijuana. This decision comes despite the state attorney general’s objections that these issues should not be on the November ballot.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have established a legal market for the sale of recreational marijuana in the Old Dominion state. The proposed law, which would have created a state-regulated marketplace for recreational marijuana, “endangers Virginians’ health and safety,” Youngkin argued in his veto statement. “States following this…

Vice President Harris will convene a roundtable on marijuana reform Friday with rapper Fat Joe, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and individuals who received pardons for marijuana convictions. A White House official said Harris will highlight actions the Biden administration has taken to pursue criminal justice reforms, including by pardoning tens of thousands of Americans with…

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) declared on Wednesday her intention to pardon misdemeanor marijuana possession charges, a decision that could affect hundreds of thousands of Bay State residents.

The Alaska Supreme Court ruled on Friday that law enforcement must have a warrant before using aircraft and binoculars or cameras with zoom lenses to watch areas around homes. The decision by Alaska’s high court explains that some argue that “because small airplane travel is so common in Alaska, and because any passenger might peer…

It seems more and more evidence points towards marijuana not being such a bad thing; now, a team of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco disproved one of the major concerns regarding smoking some ‘belvedere’, concluding that it doesn’t harm the lungs in any way. The study, which was published in the Journal […]

A new study which capitalized on an extensive ongoing survey, shows that children with high IQs, especially girls, are more likely to indulge in illicit drug use in their 30’s than people with lower IQs. Dr. James White of Cardiff University and his team of researchers used data gathered from the British Cohort Study, an ongoing […]

The sun begins to ooze off outside of Birmingham, England. It’s tea time. A woman stands alone in her house, making herself a nice warm cup. After the tea is done, she stirs a half spoon cannabis in her tea, in an attempt to seek relief from pain and spasms caused by her multiple sclerosis. […]