Brooklyn moving forward with expungement of past records builds on momentum in other cities around the country. “It’s a little unfair to say we’re no longer prosecuting these cases, but to have these folks carry these convictions for the rest of their lives,” -Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez Original Article (Drug Policy Alliance):Brooklyn District Attorney Eric…
The White House has secretly amassed a committee of federal agencies from across the government to combat public support for marijuana and cast state legalization measures in a negative light, while attempting to portray the drug as a national threat, according to interviews with agency staff and documents Staff believe that if the administration is…
The guidelines indicate members of the Canadian Armed Forces will be allowed to consume and possess cannabis as long as they follow the federal and provincial laws, but face several added regulations about when they can and can’t use the drug. Members of the Armed Forces will not be allowed to consume cannabis during a shift…
Lukman did not profit from this, and would provide cannabis oil for free to patients who could not afford it. Lukman, a 29-year-old father of one, provided cannabis oil to patients who were suffering from ailments that were difficult to treat with legal medicines … Despite Lukman’s lawyers’ plea for a reduced sentence, his mitigation was…
Psychedelics [temporarily] disarm what’s called the Default Mode Network in your brain, the part of it that keeps you alert to danger, performing tasks, scanning the future, remembering the lessons of the past, doing, doing, doing. [Over-activity of which may contribute to depression, anxiety, PTSD, eating disorders, sexual addictions, etc.] Some argue that this is the…
“It’s still a Schedule One drug,” he says. “It’s right up there with heroin and angel dust, and it’s designed to get the brown guy in jail, the poor person in jail, so that companies can charge the government $15 for an inmate’s sandwich.” -Henry Rollins Getting into the marijuana business shouldn’t be just about…
You won’t hear any talk of legalization in China soon. China’s history, drug wars, and communist control have left citizens convinced that drugs are personally and socially evil … China still bans cultivation, transport, sale, and possession … [The Chinese Government] holds over 600 patents on cannabis applications. In Hong Kong, manufacturing cannabis or any other drug…
This study was not about marijuana. It was about a chemical called “WIN 55,212-2.” This chemical is a synthetic cannabinoid, which means it binds to the same receptors in the brain as marijuana’s active chemicals Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). But it’s not the same as marijuana, and it’s not derived from marijuana. In the paper,…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has denied a request from an anti-legalization group to place marijuana and its derivatives on a list of restricted substances that are not “generally recognized as safe and effective.” The organization had filed its petition requesting the cannabis crackdown in December 2017, writing that the move would “send…
Small doses of a THC compound found in marijuana have made old mice suddenly come alive with a “young brain, according to a study by a team of Bonn University researchers and colleagues from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, published in the journal Nature Medicine. When asked how they had tested a mouse’s memory, Professor…
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