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Chuck Schumer [Senate Minority Leader] wants to decriminalize marijuana. It’s a big change for Democrats

On Friday, April 20th, 2018 on the unofficial marijuana holiday known as 4.20, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a plan to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. The New York Democrat’s support gives the policy a powerful voice as opinions on the substance become more favorable both with voters and within the ranks of…

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Attn Team

*this essentially applies to psilocybin mushrooms, as well.In other words, all compassionate, sane, honest Americans should call cannabis prohibition and false classification and official lies and treasonous offenses what they are, acts of criminal fraud, state condoned terrorism, treason and hideous injustice. We should also be calling on every Attorney General and the Joint Chiefs…

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Big Pharma facing death penalty?

So, the president wants to punish opioid dealers with the ultimate consequence. I’m astonished he’s calling for his corporate cronies to suffer the death penalty. Look out, Purdue Pharma, Teva, Cephalon, Johnson & Johnson, Janssen, Endo, Allergan, Watson, McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen. Original Article (Register Guard):Big Pharma Facing Death Penalty?Artwork Fair Use: CACorrections (California…

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Lawmakers come around to hemp protection

There’s evidence that people first used hemp fibers in the early days of human civilization. The modern-day outlawing of hemp is not of its own doing… Now the growing of industrial hemp is gaining in favor, aided by legalization of marijuana in several states. Legislators at the state and federal level are working on laws…

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) leaked policy document in October 2015

This document clarifies the position of UNODC to inform country responses to promote a health and human rights-based approach to drug policy. It explains that decriminalising drug use and possession for personal consumption is consistent with international drug control conventions and may be required to meet obligations under international human rights law. DOWNLOAD HERE. ​…

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Tackling the opioid epidemic: lessons from portugal

Portugal boasts one of the lowest rates of overdose deaths in the European Union. How did they do it? The streets of Lisbon, Portugal were once described as littered with syringes. During the 1990s, this southern European country roughly the size of Maine had one of the worst drug epidemics in the world. In Portugal,…

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Why it’s time to start caring about drug laws

Times have certainly changed in North America with Canada being the first G7 country to federally regulate their cannabis market after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made regulation a campaign promise. Canadians are opting for a state controlled system focused on child protection, complete with age checks, quality control, and aimed at breaking links between the…

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