Credit: CC0 Public Domain State policies in eight different policy domains, including gun safety, labor and tobacco, are associated with U.S. working-age mortality, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jennifer Karas …
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1 in 3 Americans Now Lives in a State Where Recreational Marijuana is Legal
As of December 2020, 1 in 3 Americans now lives in a state where recreational marijuana is legal A National Marijuana Movement Around 16 million Americans were added to the list of states that allow anyone over the age of …
Read More »US House approves bill to widen marijuana research
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The US House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would broaden researchers’ ability to study marijuana and its effects, a move hailed by cannabis advocates. The bill, passed in a bipartisan voice vote, allows authorized …
Read More »NFL Player Demetrius Harris Sentenced to Two Days in Jail, Two Years Probation for Weed Charge – News
Police chief caught on video: ‘I’m the only police chief that likes to smoke weed’
A Mississippi police chief is facing consequences for smoking marijuana on a video released to a local news network. Lumberton, Mississippi police chief Shane Flynt has been suspended with pay after WDAM obtained a video of Flynt smoking a fresh …
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Jackson, Mississippi Votes to Decriminalize Cannabis – News
Justice Department Names Robert Patterson New Acting Head of the DEA – News
Just days after Chuck Rosenberg’s resignation as the leader of the DEA, the U.S. Justice Department has announced that it will temporarily fill his shoes with Robert Patterson, according to Reuters. Patterson is no stranger to the inner workings of …
Read More »Massachusetts Cannabis Arrests Dropped Significantly in 2016, but Racist Policing Practices Persist – News
While the West Coast has fully embraced cannabis reform and a move towards recreational legalization, America’s East Coast has been more reluctant, with zero recreational pot shops currently operating east of the Mississippi. Prohibition is ending quickly, though, and a …
Read More »Mississippi officials uproot 4-acre illegal marijuana farm
Published: Aug 18, 2017, 7:36 am • Updated: Aug 18, 2017, 7:36 am By The Associated Press PRENTISS, Miss. — Mississippi officials are uprooting what they’re calling the largest outdoor marijuana farm they’ve seen since the 1980s. The Mississippi Bureau …
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