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Lead photo via Flickr user Taylor Spaulding Vincente Fox has never been shy about his ideas. The ex-Coca-Cola executive and former President of Mexico has been out of office since 2006, but has never stepped away from the popular discourse, …

Space weed, bro. That’s really all that needs to be said about the newest offering from the website Herban Planet and Arizona dispensary Level Up, a very special strain of well-traveled medical marijuana named with the same exclamation, Space Weed …

This week, the American Legion sent a letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs asking for federal assistance in supporting an FDA-approved research study on cannabis and PTSD. The study is being conducted at the Scottsdale Research Institute in Arizona, in collaboration with the National Institute of Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The study is a placebo-controlled, triple-blind study to determine the effectiveness of four different potencies of smoked cannabis in 76 veterans suffering from PTSD.

On Wednesday, the nation’s largest and most conservative military veterans organization called out the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) – asking VA Secretary David Shulkin to support Dr. Sue Sisley’s FDA-approved research into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) …

The Arizona Department of Child Services recently updated its policy to clarify that the agency will not issue foster-care licenses to anyone who uses or possesses cannabis, even if legal under the state’s medical marijuana laws. This decision is based …

The Arizona Supreme Court has blocked a county attorney’s attempt to interfere with the state’s medical marijuana laws, hopefully bringing a five-year legal battle between Maricopa county and a local dispensary to an end. In 2012, Maricopa County Attorney Bill …

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery received some bad news on Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court has sided with the voters and medical marijuana. According to Phoenix New Times, the Arizona Supreme Court denied Montgomery’s petition “to review a December state …

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is charging a local pharmaceutical company of using deceptive marketing practices to boost their profits at the cost of public health. Brnovich filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court, which accuses Insys Therapeutics of …

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For the first time ever in the United States, researchers are working to explore the therapeutic effects of marijuana on those people suffering from post–traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, reports show the study is at risk of being shut down …