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.
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Legalizing medical cannabis reduces opioid overdose deaths? Not so fast, study says→
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A study published in PNAS contradicts a widely cited paper, raising new questions about whether and how medical marijuana can affect the opioid crisis.
Read MoreDR. ROBERT L. DUPONT'S WRITTEN TESTIMONY TO THE FDA REGARDING THE HEALTH IMPACTS OF CBD→
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Today’s CBD industry is sidestepping the great advances made over the past 113 years to subject health claims to careful investigation, providing accurate information to the public and ensuring the safety, efficacy and purity of health-related products. It is well known that CBD is going into myriad products because of the widespread and growing – the unprecedented – mystique associated with the substance. In the absence of meaningful regulation, CBD will pose a major threat to public health and safety. We appear to be at that dangerous point already.
Read MoreNY High School Student: Every Reason to Keep Marijuana Outlawed→
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If marijuana is legalized in New York, then the future for the state looks bleak: Imagine a society where there are as many addicts of marijuana as there are of alcohol or tobacco. What would the Empire State be like then, and wouldn’t we regret the fact that we decided to make this harmful drug legal?
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 MoreSecondhand marijuana smoke is not just a growing nuisance, it's dangerous→
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“Mind if I smoke?” is an old refrain from the days when smoking was a ubiquitous habit and people frequently puffed on cigarettes in offices, on airplanes and at restaurants. Big Tobacco pushed the idea that "common courtesy" was enough to protect nonsmokers from toxic secondhand smoke, and that smoke-free laws were unnecessary.
It wasn't true then, and it's not true today. Even as cigarette use is shrinking across the country, another type of smoking — marijuana — is becoming increasingly widespread in public places, bringing with it a resurgence of secondhand smoke and airborne carcinogens. And now, nobody’s even asking if nonsmokers mind.
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.
Read MoreCalifornia lawmakers already want to roll back a key promise of marijuana legalization→
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That guarantee of local control was a central promise of the proposition. But now, some legislators want to reverse it and force local governments to accept pot stores against their will. It’s an unfair bait-and-switch tactic that should not be approved.
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Forcing California cities to allow marijuana sales is ignoring the will of voters→
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California’s budding cannabis industry isn’t exactly blossoming. It’s having trouble sprouting. So a San Francisco legislator has some unique ideas.
Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting, influential chairman of the budget committee, wants the state to break a promise made to voters in 2016 when they approved Proposition 64 to legalize non-medical use of marijuana.
Read MoreHighly Potent Weed Has Swept The Market, Raising Concerns About Health Risks→
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As more states legalize marijuana, more people in the U.S. are buying and using weed — and the kind of weed they can buy has become much stronger.
Read MoreWhere'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 MoreAlabama’s dangerously flawed medical marijuana proposal→
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Marijuana’s ability to cause psychosis is one of its longest-known and best-documented side effects.
Read MoreFor sale in the pot industry: political influence→
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This should be no surprise; it would be a surprise, in fact, if the influence business had taken a pass on the lucrative potential of pot. But the flood of former government officials coming into the pot business — including former governor and current presidential candidate William F. Weld, former state House speaker Thomas M. Finneran, former state senator Andrea F. Nuciforo Jr., former Boston city councilor Michael P. Ross and even former Boston police superintendent-in-chief Daniel Linskey — is striking.
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 MoreMental illness implications of cannabis use must not be ignored→
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For California voters, recreational marijuana legalization was sold as a win-win-win: billions of dollars in new tax revenues, a chance for law enforcement to focus on more serious crimes, and the societal acceptance of a relatively low-risk alternative to alcohol.
But as the state stumbles through its second year of fully legalized cannabis, the reality appears to be more lose-lose-lose.
Read MoreCraving cannabis: is marijuana addictive?→
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To Weiner the villain is the for-profit marijuana industry. Legalization has gained widespread support in the US thanks to a two-pronged PR strategy of promoting cannabis as a “medicine” and wellness product, even when the evidence of its benefits is anecdotal or non-existent, and trying to demolish the stigma of cannabis as a drug for losers. “Their goal is not public health, their goal is addiction,” Weiner says. “When I speak out against this topic it’s against my financial interest – which I can’t say for the people on the other side.”
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.
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