“CBD is not the component that most consumers look for. It certainly has its merits… But the THC is what gives people that buzz, which is similar to the alcohol buzz that people get from beer, spirits, and wine. A lot of consumers of cannabis look for that buzz.” -Keith Villa (Creator of Blue Moon)…
Employers and many others are quietly taking what once would have been a radical step: They’re dropping marijuana from the drug tests they require of prospective employees. Excluding marijuana from testing marks the first major shift in workplace drug policies since employers began regularly screening applicants in the late 1980s. They did so after a…
In February of 2018, Maine went so far as to bar companies from refusing to hire or firing someone for marijuana use outside work, effectively preventing employers from doing random or pre-hire drug testing. Some Massachusetts employers have already started treating marijuana like alcohol, telling workers that they can’t use it at work or bring…
They worked through a series of tests in both cultured cells and living animals, covering a variety of mind-altering drugs and different doses in rats, Drosophila (fruit flies), and zebrafish. While the results varied across tests, across the study as a whole the psychedelics were shown to increase the number of dendrites, or branches between…
*letter 11/2016 If passed, HR 2851 will broadly expand penalties for drug offenses, concentrate power within the Department of Justice, punish people who lack criminal intent, and overcriminalize certain behavior. The legislation attempts to address the very real problem of synthetic opioid overdoses in the United States, but we believe that its methods are misguided.…
The bill (2018-H 7715Aaa), which now goes to the Senate, specifies that any person convicted of unlawfully selling illicit substances that result in a person’s death shall be sentenced to up to life in prison. Violating the tenets of both reason and compassion, the Rhode Island House of Representatives approved Kristen’s Law on Thursday, a…
The mother of a boy with severe epilepsy has called for a meeting with the home and health secretaries to talk about making medical cannabis legal for children who have similar conditions to her son. Charlotte Caldwell said it was “absolutely horrific” and “cruel” that 12-year-old Billy had been refused cannabis oil after Home Office…
The paper, published May 7, 2018 in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, shows evidence that harmful long-term effects of MDMA are probably caused by very high doses that most people don’t actually take. -Study’s authors were led by Balázs Szigeti, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Edinburgh, In the Global Drug Survey, which includes recreational ecstasy use data…
The government argues it is “critically important” to permit Canadians to grow pot at home in order to support the main goal of shutting down the illegal market. “We have spent months, and indeed years, talking with experts, reflecting on the best path forward on the legalization of cannabis because the current system doesn’t work,”…
Earlier this month at a Capitol Hill press conference… Schumer [said] when we could expect his long-awaited bill. “It will be introduced shortly,” he said briskly. Advocates say the legislation could be be groundbreaking. They say it includes a new provision creating a much needed fund to help more minorities and women enter the multibillion-dollar…
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