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  • Maryland cannabis regulators tell dispensaries they need to open by Sept. 30 or else

    Maryland cannabis regulators tell dispensaries they need to open by Sept. 30 or else

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    Medical cannabis companies still struggling to open stores in Maryland will have their preliminary approvals to operate revoked by state regulators if they do not finalize their licenses and open their doors by Sept. 30. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission issued a bulletin Thursday alerting companies of the deadline and advising them to complete their final inspections by
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  • Cannabis On The Ballot: What Researchers Think You Should Know

    Cannabis On The Ballot: What Researchers Think You Should Know

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    With voters in several states asked to decide about recreational and medical marijuana, a quick look at the state of knowledge about the drug and its derivatives Voters will go to the polls Tuesday to determine whether several states will legalize marijuana for medical or recreational uses, even as the federal government maintains it is an illegal
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  • Medical cannabis users anxious over supply shortages

    Medical cannabis users anxious over supply shortages

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    Medical pot users say they never faced supply shortages before recreational cannabis became legal last month.  Can’t find any weed to buy for a party this weekend? Don’t complain. Canadians who use cannabis for medical reasons are being hit by shortages in a far worse way. “It’s actually more than a supply issue. Really, it’s
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  • Can cannabis put you on path to better health?

    Can cannabis put you on path to better health?

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    Joe is an ordinary guy. And Joe is a smoker. He doesn’t want to smoke. He’s read the government statistics that say he’s among nearly 38 million Americans who smoke and that the habit causes some 480,000 deaths a year. He’s tried to stop, and he’s failed. But there may be hope, and that hope
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  • Girl can attend school with her cannabis-based medicine, California court rules

    Girl can attend school with her cannabis-based medicine, California court rules

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    It took a fight in court, but a 5-year-old girl will be allowed to bring her cannabis-based medicine to school and attend class with other students, according to a ruling by a California administrative court on Friday. Brooke Adams, a Santa Rosa, California, kindergartner, has Dravet Syndrome. It’s a severe and rare form of epilepsy
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  • Ganja Planted At The University Of West Indies

    Ganja Planted At The University Of West Indies

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    Minister of Justice Mark Golding (right) and Courtney Betty (left), president and CEO of Timeless Herbal Care, jointly plant a ganja seedling at yesterday’s (April 21) launch of the symbolic planting of the first legal marijuana plant at the Lecture Theatre Two, Faculty of Medical Sciences Teaching and Research Complex. Overseeing the activities are (at
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  • Marijuana Science: Why Today’s Pot Packs a Bigger Punch

    Marijuana Science: Why Today’s Pot Packs a Bigger Punch

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    The marijuana that is available today may be much more potent than marijuana cultivated in the past, according to the results of new tests. The psychoactive component in the marijuana plant is the chemical THC, and the new tests showed that today’s marijuana may contain 30 percent THC, Andy LaFrate, the author of the new
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  • The Impact Of Smoking Marijuana Regularly On Your Lungs, According To Science

    The Impact Of Smoking Marijuana Regularly On Your Lungs, According To Science

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    Evolving attitudes about marijuana among the majority of Americans, as well as decriminalization laws starting to sweep the nation, have done little to quell questions about the health effects of longtime use among medical professionals, lawmakers, and people on both sides of an ongoing debate about the plant. Even with a dearth of research, the
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  • Berkeley Dispensaries Must Give Free Weed to Low-Income Patients

    Berkeley Dispensaries Must Give Free Weed to Low-Income Patients

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    In a landmark decision to serve the underprivileged of the East Bay, the Berkeley City Council UNANIMOUSLY voted last week to provide small amounts of free medical marijuana to low-income and homeless patients. Whoa. According to the new ordinance, dispensaries in the area must give away weed equal to at least 2 percent of their
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  • The Clock Is Winding Down On Medical Marijuana For Kids In Illinois

    The Clock Is Winding Down On Medical Marijuana For Kids In Illinois

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    Children suffering from epilepsy would be eligible to use a form of medical marijuana under a measure that gained bipartisan approval in the Illinois House this week. Legislation allowing minors with epilepsy to use cannabidiol, a cannabis derivative,passed 98-18 on Wednesday with support from several Republican lawmakers who had previously opposed the law, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
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  • Managing marijuana in Uruguay

    Managing marijuana in Uruguay

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    After recently legalising pot, officials now must pick the kind, who will grow it, the price and much more. Montevideo, Uruguay – Uruguay, about to become the first country in the world where the state will fully regulate production, sale and distribution of marijuana, will spend the next few months selecting a good quality strain of the
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  • There’s Only One Week to Sign and Mail in Medical Marijuana Petitions FLORIDA GET UP AND VOTE!!!

    There’s Only One Week to Sign and Mail in Medical Marijuana Petitions FLORIDA GET UP AND VOTE!!!

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    The push is on to make Florida the next state to legalize medical marijuana. Organizers have one month to get 700,000 signatures on a petition to get the issue on the November ballot. But since state laws require that the petitions be paper petitions that are mailed in via snail mail — not online ones
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  • Colo. Teen Addiction Centers Gear Up for Legal Pot

    Colo. Teen Addiction Centers Gear Up for Legal Pot

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    While many Coloradoans rang in the new year by lining up outside marijuana dispensaries for a celebratory toke, some rehab centers are prepping for an increase of marijuana-addicted patients in 2014, especially teenage users. Although only people over the age of 21 are allowed to buy marijuana, psychiatrists and others remain concerned that teens could be most at
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  • Is Cannabis Bad for Me? The Science… and How It Is Misinterpreted

    Is Cannabis Bad for Me? The Science… and How It Is Misinterpreted

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    A lot can be said for cannabis. And, as Uruguay approves the production and distribution of the plant, you can be sure you’ll be hearing a lot more on the issue. My own viewpoints on the herb were sculpted through work with a Californian client who, at the end of our second appointment, innocently asked
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  • Brain Scan Study Suggests ‘Pothead’ Stereotype Might Be Real

    Brain Scan Study Suggests ‘Pothead’ Stereotype Might Be Real

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    MONDAY, Dec. 16, 2013 (HealthDay News) — Shrunken structures inside the brains of heavy marijuana users might explain the stereotype of the “pothead,” brain researchers report. Northwestern University scientists studying teens who were marijuana smokers or former smokers found that parts of the brain related to working memory appeared diminished in size — changes that
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  • Using Marijuana May Stimulate The Growth Of Male Breast

    Using Marijuana May Stimulate The Growth Of Male Breast

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    Plastic surgeon, Dr. Anthony Youn, wrote for CNN about the one of possible reasons for the growth of male breast.  This phenomenon is known as gynecomastia, and about 40% of male population deals with it. Dr. Youn said that when he saw a boy in his early twenties, who had male breast and came to Dr
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  • Families See Colorado as New Frontier on Medical Marijuana

    Families See Colorado as New Frontier on Medical Marijuana

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    FOUNTAIN, Colo. — As their children cooed from wheelchairs and rocked softly in their arms, the marijuana migrants of Colorado clasped hands, bowed their heads and said a prayer of cautious thanks. Madeleine Lightle’s parents have brought her to Colorado Springs after a neurologist suggested removing part of her brain to stop her seizures.  
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  • Marijuana: Toke Up on Mold, Insects and Manure

    Marijuana: Toke Up on Mold, Insects and Manure

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    Some may tout marijuana as a safe, recreational drug with valuable medicinal properties, but toke up your joint and it likely contains mold, pesticides, even dead insects, according to researchers at the University of New Haven in Connecticut. In their genetic studies of marijuana, the researchers found a variety of nasty byproducts in the plant:
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  • Rabbi Ties Jewish Faith to Medical Marijuana

    Rabbi Ties Jewish Faith to Medical Marijuana

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    Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn spent his 30-year career educating others and helping to ease human suffering, leading Jewish congregations in Australia, Illinois, his hometown of Miami and New Jersey. Now, he is practicing his faith in a different line of work: Kahn runs a dispensary for medical marijuana. Call it a mitzvah — or one of God’s commandments.
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  • Here Are All The People Who Have Died From A Marijuana Overdose

    Here Are All The People Who Have Died From A Marijuana Overdose

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    Yeah, not a single person has ever died from a weed overdose. We don’t have numbers on pandas, but we’re guessing it’s about the same. According to one frequently cited study, a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times the amount of THC in a joint in order to be at risk
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