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If the American population had any influence on Capitol Hill, marijuana would be made federally legal, at least for medicinal purposes, according to the latest Yahoo/Marist poll.

The new “Weed & the American Family” survey finds a whopping majority (83 percent) of the United States believes marijuana should be legalized for medical use.

Consuming cannabis is often a social activity. We pass joints, bake batches of brownies and laugh about ancient alien conspiracy theories with our friends. But sometimes, after a long day of work or when you just want/need to be anti-social, a good toke is the perfect thing to clear your head and find some peace of mind.

Through 90-plus days under Donald Trump’s reign, not a week has gone by without some new controversy arising around the president and his administration. Week after week, month after month, another critical budget cut or jarring accusation regarding connections to the Russian government sends the U.S. tailspinning deeper into uncertainty. Last week, we witnessed the rising role of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the intensification of war in the Middle East, and aggravated interactions with North Korea.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary and Donald Trump appointee John Kelly appeared on Meet the Press Sunday morning and told host Chuck Todd that marijuana was “not a factor” in the war on drugs.

Kelly discussed North Korea, immigration enforcement, Mexico, and was touching on the war on drugs when Todd went out on a limb and asked the DHS Secretary whether legalizing cannabis stateside would help or hurt his work at the border.

"Yeah, marijuana is not a factor in the drug war," Kelly responded.

With medical marijuana legislation on the books in states throughout the U.S., the need for services that connect patients with doctors and cannabis products has become apparent. Web services like Nugg and Presto Doctor assist prospective patients obtain their medical marijuana card via online video consultations with local doctors. Others, like the San Francisco startup Eaze, go a step further by also providing home delivery services and an extensive cannabis marketplace.

With medical marijuana legislation on the books in states throughout the U.S., the need for services that connect patients with doctors and cannabis products has become apparent. Web services like Nugg and Presto Doctor assist prospective patients obtain their medical marijuana card via online video consultations with local doctors. Others, like the San Francisco startup Eaze, go a step further by also providing home delivery services and an extensive cannabis marketplace.

The Canadian government has introduced two long-expected bills that would legalize recreational marijuana across the country by next July.

“Despite decades of criminal prohibition, Canadians – including 21% of our youth and 30% of young adults – continue to use cannabis at among the highest rates in the world,” said MP and former Toronto police chief Bill Blair. “The proposed legislation, which is introduced today, seeks to legalize, strictly regulate and restrict access to cannabis.”

The responsibilities of legalization would be divided between state and local governments.

According to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health, white youth are more likely to abuse hard drugs than blacks of the same age group, shattering a common racial stereotype.

Researchers at Northwestern University interviewed 1,829 young people between the ages of 10 and 18 who were detained at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago between 1995 and 1998. Researchers then interviewed the participants over a twelve-year period, contacting some of them as many as 9 times during that period.

A legislative proposal from California’s Governor Jerry Brown that would reconcile aspects of the state’s medical and recreational cannabis industries is under fire from all sides as lawmakers, marijuana advocates, and police officials alike worry that the bill is too hands off and gives too much power to canna-businesses.

As we reported last week, the Governor’s bill (a trailer to the state’s annual budget) would allow individuals an unlimited number of cannabis licenses, allow cultivators to act as their own distributors, and remove permitting regulations that require local municipalities to approve pot shops before they can acquire a state

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All of America was troubled by the video of Chicago airline police assaulting United Airlines passenger David Dao last week. Sadly, incidents like these seem to be more and more common across the country. This is only one of many egregious and ridiculous overreaches by police since President Trump took office in January. The self-proclaimed “law and order candidate” has gone so far as to name some of his executive orders after the “blue lives matter” movement.