The Senate Committee on Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation last week voted to approve a bill that would divert at least $26 million over the next two years from substance abuse treatment, but now a Senate spokesman says lawmakers have changed their minds. Measure 110, which voters passed by a 17-point margin in 2020,…
Does cannabis actually make people lazy in the long run? A new study published in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology – a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Psychological Association – disputes the cannabis-induced amotivational syndrome theory, instead finding no evidence to support it. Original Article (High Times):Study shreds cannabis ‘amotivational syndrome’ theoryArtwork Fair Use:…
Coloradans will be surprised to learn that Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office has targeted low-level residential marijuana growers for federal prosecution, some of whom receive ten-year mandatory prison sentences. The U.S. Attorney can decline to focus on drug cases at all… the data show the feds don’t only target larger operations. The overwhelming majority of the…
Despite being the first state to allow recreational pot sales, Colorado still doesn’t have protections in place for people who are denied jobs or fired for off-duty cannabis consumption or testing positive for THC. But if House Bill 1152 passes as currently written, recreational cannabis use off the clock would no longer be a fireable offense, and…
The average US-listed cannabis stock is down by more than a third since the start of 2021, compared with 20 per cent for the S&P 500, while the Canadian cannabis index is down roughly 50 per cent over the same period. …marijuana legislation has failed to gain support in the Senate, including the Safe and…
[Colorado] Rep. Ed Perlmutter… who has been the foremost champion of SAFE Banking over the years, told reporters… he’s determined to get SAFE past the finish line. The SAFE Banking Act was similarly attached to a national defense budget bill, only to be stripped out by Senate leadership. If SAFE Banking is stripped out again… there’s other forthcoming…
Known as the Systematically Testing the Evidence on Marijuana… the project is a joint production of researchers with Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) Center for Evidence-based Policy and the Veterans (VA) Portland Health Care System. …designed as an independent, methodologically rigorous resource primarily for health care workers. The site features living systematic reviews that…
Let’s face it, for the past half a century the US has been in a REAL hot war, a “forever war” against cannabis, a war against Americans on American soil. Here’s another big number: 545,602 That’s the of number of Americans arrested for cannabis related crimes in 2019… that’s more cannabis arrests than for all…
…repeatedly microdosed… zebrafish with LSD.… …using behavioural neuroscience tests to quantify locomotion, boldness and anxiety-like behaviour… we [also] found that zebrafish acutely dosed with the terpene limonene (found in citrus fruit peels and cannabis) and myrcene (found in cannabis and hops), showed a significant reduction in anxiety-like behaviour… [with terpene limonene & myrcene] no negative…
Adults can now [Jan. 1, 2022] purchase up to two ounces of cannabis flower from licensed retailers… …under amended rules issued by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission. Original Article (Norml):Oregon: new rules increase the amount of cannabis adults can purchase per transactionArtwork Fair Use: Mostafameraji
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