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IRS Targets Medical Marijuana Businesses In Government’s Ongoing War On Pot
The tea party has company. For the past several years, the Internal Revenue Service has been systematically targeting medical marijuana establishments, relying on an obscure statute that gives the taxing agency unintended power. The IRS has been functioning as an arm of justice, employing the U.S. tax code as a weapon in the federal government’s ongoing
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Cannabis culture thriving in Morocco’s Rif Mountains
Thousands of poor farmers depend on illegal plant as Rabat struggles to combat hashish crops with diversification policy. Middle East Online By Simon MARTELLI – ISSAGUEN, Morocco From father to son “If you try to grow other crops here they will fail,” says Ahmed, surrounded by lush green fields of cannabis, the illegal plant he
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Colorado becomes world’s first legal, fully regulated market for recreational marijuana
Call it the mile-high state. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper made history Tuesday, signing two bills that make his state the first place in the world to fully regulate the recreational use of marijuana for adults. Flanked by legislators and pot legalization activists at the Colorado State Capitol, Hickenlooper signed two bills that lay out the framework
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Aging Baby Boomers Could Help Florida Medical Marijuana Effort
Florida lawmakers made it clear this session that they are not interested in legalizing marijuana. A bill to allow medical marijuana never got a hearing, and the state enacted a new ban on certain smoking pipes to further crack down on illegal marijuana use. But recent polling shows Florida citizens are seeing through the haze. In a
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Recreational marijuana: How Colorado plans to regulate the pot market
Colorado made history Tuesday when Governor John Hickenlooper signed six billsinto law that will govern the cultivation, sale, and taxation of recreational marijuana, creating the first legal framework in the U.S. for recreational marijuana use. Last November, Coloradans voted to approve a constitutional amendment on recreational marijuana. The measure, Amendment 64, will allow Colorado adults–21 and
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Want To See What A B-Real Rolled Big Joint Looks Like?
” “ I, like you, wasted hours of my youth listening to classic Cypress Hill lyrics and thinking in a smoke affected voice, ”Yeah man. This is the quality shit right here.” But then I’d get called an “idiot” by my mother for getting black ink on my lips after sucking on a pen and
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Colorado governor to sign a series of new marijuana laws on taxes, regulations, more on Tuesday
DENVER – Colorado’s governor is scheduled to sign a series of bills to regulate and tax legal marijuana. Gov. John Hickenlooper planned a Tuesday morning signing ceremony for six measures related Amendment 64, passed by voters last year. Amendment 64 allows adults over 21 to possess up to an ounce of marijuana. It also would
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Israel To More Than Double The Amount Of Physicians Prescribing Medical Marijuana
Likud MK Haim Katz, Chair of the Knesset Labor, Social Welfare and Health Committee, has announced that the number of physicians authorized to prescribe medical marijuana in Israel will more than double by the end of this year. Currently there are only 9 doctors allowed to prescribe cannabis to patients in Israel, resulting in over 11,000
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Where there’s smoke there’s fire: Israel’s medical marijuana debate heats up
Medical marijuana buds being packaged in Israel. Debate over medical cannabis gains momentum as Knesset Health Committee approves 11 more doctors to prescribe drug; Health Minister German under attack. The debate over medical marijuana use in Israel has gained momentum in recent weeks, as evidenced by the vociferous attacks on Health Minister Yael German’s Facebook
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Miley Cyrus appears to love Chanel and marijuana
Miley Cyrus has moved on from winning the hearts of America as that cute girl on “Hannah Montana,” to a brilliantly attractive young woman who recently was chosen as no. 1 on Maxim’s Hot 100 List. And so a lot of people interested in Hollywood gossip want to more about Miley. Hilton Hater reported for Hollywood
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Michigan Medical Marijuana Patients & Caregivers Surrender to Feds
DETROIT, MI — Several Michigan medical marijuana patients and caregivers are expected to surrender to federal authorities this week to serve out lengthy prison terms, after being convicted in federal court without any opportunity to defend themselves on medical necessity or state law grounds. Some defendants went to trial while others pleaded guilty when they
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How America Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Marijuana
For nearly a century, the United States has been one of the fiercest advocates and practitioners of marijuana prohibition in the world. At the height of the America’s anti-pot fervor in the 1950s and ’60s, one could even receive life imprisonment for simple possession of the drug. But the puritanical fervor that once dominated
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Medical pot laws & treats may send more kids to ER
View PhotoAssociated Press – FILE – This Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 file photo shows a medical marijuana plant at a dispensary in Seattle. Increased use of medical marijuana may lead to more young children getting sick …more CHICAGO (AP) — Increased use of medical marijuana may lead to more young children getting sick from accidentally eating food made
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Marijuana Users Have Better Blood Sugar Control
Regular marijuana use is associated with favorable indices related to diabetic control, say investigators. They found that current marijuana users had significantly lower fasting insulin and were less likely to be insulin resistant, even after excluding patients with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. Their findings are reported in the current issue of The American Journal of
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Marijuana Decreases Diabetes Risk, More Studies Indicate
Just a few days after news broke that marijuana appears to treat symptoms of Crohn’s Disease, now it appears weed smokers may enjoy a decreased risk of diabetes, according to the latestresearch showing “current marijuana use was associated with 16% lower fasting insulin levels” and 17 percent lower levels of insulin resistance. High insulin and insulin resistance
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Pot Luck: Could Marijuana Be Used to Treat Diabetes?
In research dubbed “remarkable” by an accompanying editorialist, US doctors describe how current users of marijuana appear to have better blood glucose control than never or former users. Existing cannabis smokers had lower levels of fasting insulin and were less likely to be insulin resistant than nonusers; this finding remained true even when patients with
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Could marijuana reduce diabetes risk?
REUTERS/Michael Kooren There’s an unexpected link between marijuana use and factors related to Type 2 diabetes that has medical researchers intrigued. Several studies have found that marijuana users take in more food calories than nonusers, but they still have lower rates of obesity and diabetes, and lower average body mass index (BMI) levels. In a new
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Cannabis Crisis
Medical Pot Purveyors Protest Amendment They Claim Could Put Them Out of Business The state legislature enters a special session this week to finish the work of passing a budget bill. But this year, the nuts-and-bolts legislation has become a flash point for medical marijuana activists, some of whom oppose a budget rider that would
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Seriously, man — cannabis comic Tommy Chong now says feds should legalize, tax marijuana
Tommy Chong, left, and Richard “Cheech” Marin arrive May 6 at the 6th Annual George Lopez Celebrity Golf Classic in Toluca Lake, Calif. Chong, who with Marin celebrated pot smoking in comedy routines and movies, says marijuana should be legalized at the federal level. (The Associated Press) To have stoner comic Tommy Chong come out for
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Legalising medicinal cannabis is a leap forward for compassion
There is a large amount of rigorous research evidence for medical marijuana. Rusty Blazenhoff A NSW Parliamentary Committee has recommended legalising the use of medical use of marijuana for people with terminal conditions. This is an approach that should be embraced nationally. For some years now, people seeking cannabis for medicinal purposes have contacted me every
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