Across the country, lobbyists for the marijuana industry, backed by Big Tobacco, Big Alcohol, and pharma investors, have focused much of their attention on getting members of Congress to back today’s highly potent legal weed under the guise of social justice to create a new addiction-for-profit industry.
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Failure to legalize weed is blessing in disguise for New York→
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The real social injustice of legalizing weed arises from how the explosive growth of the cannabis industry enables it to escape government regulation in states with legal weed, while rectifying the harms of the War on Drugs is relegated to the back burner.
Read MoreStudy: High drivers don’t think they’ll get caught→
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Nearly 70 percent of Americans think it’s unlikely a driver will get caught by police for driving while impaired by marijuana, per the latest findings from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The same study found that an estimated 14.8 million drivers, nationwide, report they’ve driven within one hour of using marijuana at least once in the past 30 days.
Read MoreThis Reporter Took a Deep Look Into the Science of Smoking Pot. What He Found Is Scary.→
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We look back and laugh at Reefer Madness, which was pretty over-the-top, after all, but Berenson found himself immersed in some pretty sobering evidence: Cannabis has been associated with legitimate reports of psychotic behavior and violence dating at least to the 19th century, when a Punjabi lawyer in India noted that 20 to 30 percent of patients in mental hospitals were committed for cannabis-related insanity.
Read MoreExploding danger: U.S. marijuana oil labs pose deadly, destructive hazard→
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The Sunny Meadow Street explosion illustrates a growing danger as marijuana moves from the counterculture to the mainstream, law enforcement officials told Reuters. With cannabis now legal for medical or recreational use in 33 states and the District of Columbia, users are discovering new ways of consuming the drug.
Read MoreAfter 16 Months of “Legal” Pot In Californian Is Anything Working?
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Proposition 64 (November 2016) promised voters in California several key things in exchange for a vote to “legalize”. Have any of those promises been kept?
Read MoreThese Are Real 'High Crimes'→
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In 2016, 35-year-old comic book artist and screenwriter Blake Leibel scalped his girlfriend, stripping her skull to the bone, drained her body of blood, then hid out in their West Hollywood condo with her desiccated corpse for more than a week. Only after the girlfriend's mother tricked the police into knocking down the door did they discover the grisly scene.
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Where's the pot? California tracking system unlikely to know→
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When California voters broadly legalized marijuana, they were promised that a vast computer platform would closely monitor products moving through the new market. But 16 months after sales kicked in, the system known as track-and-trace isn’t doing much of either. As of last month, just nine retail outlets were entering data into the network established under an estimated $60 million state contract, even though 627 shops are licensed to sell pot in California. The rate of participation is similarly slim for other sectors in the emerging industry.
Read MoreWeeding Out Dubious Marijuana Science→
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Researchers find ways to minimize increases in crime and traffic deaths that followed legalization.
Read MoreMarijuana legalization can’t fix mass incarceration→
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A Republican and Democrat pointed to marijuana prohibition to explain mass incarceration. They’re both wrong.
Read More‘Getting Worse, Not Better’: Illegal Pot Market Booming in California Despite Legalization→
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It’s been a little more than a year since California legalized marijuana — the largest such experiment in the United States — but law enforcement officials say the unlicensed, illegal market is still thriving and in some areas has even expanded.
Read MoreMany drivers who test positive for marijuana have a child in the car, survey finds→
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Data from thousands of Washington state drivers shows many don’t realize cannabis can impair driving, experts say.
Read MoreHalf Of Marijuana Users In The US Think They’re Fine To Drive Stoned
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In a major national survey, most users added that they’d be comfortable in a car driven by someone high on cannabis.
Read MoreHow state officials snuck themselves into Georgia’s Hope Act, sticking taxpayers with the cost of regulating medical marijuana so officials can profit from its production
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Because no tax was levied to pay for the costs of regulating a medical marijuana industry in Georgia, taxpayers will bear that burden so that state-wide public officials and legislators – maybe even some who were actually all in that same room – can make money growing and processing medical pot.
Read MoreStop ignoring the brutal downside of legal pot→
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Politicians are pushing to legalize recreational marijuana in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, following 10 other states. But the Parent Teacher Association, local health officials and pediatricians are pushing back, warning about the permanent damage to youngsters’ brains caused by weed. If you have children, trust the PTA, not the pols.
Read MoreThe Marijuana Delusion→
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States rush to legalize recreational pot, even as evidence of its harms grows.
Read MoreCalifornia is awash in cannabis cash. Some is being used to bribe public officials→
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In the more than two years since California voters approved the licensed growing and sale of recreational marijuana, the state has seen a half-dozen government corruption cases as black-market operators try to game the system, through bribery and other means. The cases are tarnishing an already troubled roll-out of the state permitting of pot businesses as provided for when voters approved Proposition 64 in November 2016.
Read MoreLegal? Illegal? Some players still work both sides of state marijuana industry→
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During the 21 years that California’s multibillion-dollar unregulated medical marijuana market thrived, cannabis operators learned to create elaborate schemes to disguise their connections to unlicensed shops. And now that some operators are also tied to valuable licensed businesses, Montes said, double dippers have become even more careful about burying their identities.
Read MoreDon't be fooled - Marijuana legalization is not about advancing social justice
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Advocates frequently argue that marijuana should be legalized as a source of new tax revenue. But considering that most marijuana is smoked by low-income individuals, such a tax would be regressive in nature. Increasing harmful consumption taxes on poor communities does little to advance social equity.
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