Category: Cannabis Facts

Medical marijuana is helping seniors across the country trade some of their pills for pot, and get off drugs that cause as many problems as they solve.

At a Maryland State Senate hearing to discuss decriminalizing marijuana Tuesday, a high-ranking law enforcement official betrayed his total ignorance about marijuana when he claimed that decriminalization...

A new study finds that marijuana may combat stress-related illnesses like depression and inflammation.

A study from University of Colorado Denver found that medical marijuana dispensaries impact neighborhoods no more negatively than coffee shops.

014 Preliminary data suggests that cannabis may be a substitute for alcohol consumption, according to a review published online in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism. An investigator...

Collective Evolution discusses how THC kills cancer cells, with a video explanation from molecular biologist Dr. Christina Sanchez.

This past month marked the first month of legal marijuana sales in Colorado and the United States as a whole, and as a retail worker in one...

A new study finds that marijuana may prevent blindness from pigmentosa.

Excavation of the stone age city Çatalhöyük in Turkey has yielded the earliest hemp fabric ever found.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker thinks that alcohol is safer than pot, and is upset about the president’s remarks to the contrary.

Letter signed by eighteen federal legislators says marijuana’s current status “makes no sense.” Eighteen Members of Congress joined together today in calling on President Obama to use...

Here is a quick tip for buying legal weed in Colorado that will slightly affect the price of your product at checkout. In the past several weeks,...

The armchair doctors over at WebMD recently published an article titled: Fatal Car Crashes Involving Pot Use Have Tripled in U.S., Study Finds. On the surface, this...

A new study shows that marijuana may fight HIV in addition to helping patients with appetite and weight loss problems.

Huffington Post reports that medical marijuana’s effectiveness in treating seizures has even the southern states considering allowing its use.

Laurel Dewey explains that not only is cannabis not a gateway drug, but an exit drug that helps people with serious addiction problems.

Scientific American calls for an end to the ban on psychoactive drug research, noting that marijuana, LSD, psilocybin and MDMA may lead to new treatments.

The same stale (mostly inaccurate) counter-cannabis arguments have been tossed at us for decades from prohibitionists: It’s a gateway drug It’s highly addictive It supports drug cartels...

Huffington Post covers a new report showing that legalizing medical marijuana drops suicide rates among males in their 20’s and 30’s.

The death of 31-year-old British resident Gemma Moss is, without a doubt, a tragedy any way you look at it. I want to be very clear at...