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Places with More Marijuana Dispensaries Have More Marijuana-Related Hospitalizations

In a first analysis of the impact of marijuana dispensary locations on health, researchers mapped California hospital discharge data that had a primary or secondary code for marijuana dependence or abuse to patients’ zip codes. Then they cross-referenced the data to the number of dispensaries in those zip codes. Hospital marijuana codes increased from 17,469 […]

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Opposition to Legalization Up 8 Points — State Attorneys General Collaborating with Marijuana Industry

The Gallup Poll reports that support for marijuana legalization dropped by 7 points, down to 51 percent from 58 percent last year. The 51 percent support for legalization is similar to the 50 percent support for legalization in 2011 and 2012. Opposition is greatest among conservatives (31 percent), highest among liberals (73 percent), and in […]

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Why is Adolescent Marijuana Use Higher in States That Legalize Medical Marijuana than in States That Don’t?

The June 17th issue of The Marijuana Report summarized a new study, published by Lancet, that finds marijuana use does not increase among high school students when a state legalizes medical marijuana. Researchers analyzed data from the Monitoring the Future Survey about past-month marijuana use among 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students between 1991 and 2014. […]

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Is There a Middle Road between Marijuana Incarceration and Marijuana Legalization?

As part of its special series titled Race Matters, an investigation by Miami’s CBS4 News this week, provides an opportunity to consider new ways to think about marijuana and racial imbalances in the way our laws are enforced. CBS4 News gathered and analyzed police records of every misdemeanor marijuana case in Miami Dade County between […]

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Marijuana: Lies, Damn Lies and Julia Negron

Have you ever heard the name Julia Negron who lives in the Sunshine State? Negron, her former husband(s), mother, sister and son were drug abusers. Her mother and sister died from drug overdoses. You would think Negron would be against all forms of drug use and abuse. You would think she would be a proponent of the Just […]

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What Will Legal Marijuana Cost Employers?

What effect will legalized marijuana have on employers?  National Families in Action, a drug policy and education organization, is releasing a White Paper that examines problems employers are facing in states that have legalized marijuana for medical or retail use. The paper addresses how marijuana laws are changing, how these laws will affect employers’ ability to […]

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The Marijuana Report: If we can see the difference, why can’t we speak the difference?

The green tubes in the picture above contain a cannabinoid, one of more than 100 components scientists have identified in the marijuana plant. This particular cannabinoid is cannabidiol (CBD), or Epidiolex, which GW Pharmaceuticals extracts from the marijuana plant, purifies, and mixes in oil to treat children with rare forms of epilepsy. Some 98% of […]

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What’s the Difference between Medical Marijuana and Marijuana-Based Medicines?

A new resource for those who misunderstand the differences between medical marijuana and marijuana-based medicines, an online resource is now available. The website is TheMarijuanaReport.org is a project of the non-profit group National Families in Action. The following is one of their reports: What’s the Difference between Medical Marijuana and Marijuana-Based Medicines? This brief report summarizes key issues that […]

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Is Legalizing Marijuana a Solution to Unfair Drug Arrests?

Kelsey Harkness, news producer at The Daily Signal reports and asks: One reason advocates argue for the legalization of marijuana is that arrests for possession of the drug fall disproportionately on young black men, which has the potential of ruining their lives and creating new generations of criminals. Are they right? Kevin A. Sabet, a leading voice […]

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Digital Advertising Had Significant Impact on Medical Marijuana Vote in Florida

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Online video and banner ads had a significant impact on theFlorida medical marijuana race, according to a post-election survey of 800 voters conducted by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research on behalf of United for Care, which was advocating for Amendment 2. The survey revealed that those who saw Internet advertisements voted for Florida’s Amendment 2 […]

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VIDEO: Marijuana Does Kill

Kevin Sabet, a former adviser on drug policy to three presidents—Clinton, Bush and Obama—says despite popular fiction, marijuana does kill. “Saying marijuana has never contributed to death or never killed anyone is like saying tobacco hasn’t killed anyone,” Kevin Sabet, president of Project SAM, told The Daily Signal after speaking at a Heritage Foundation event on marijuana […]