Tag: children

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August 29, 2013
08/29/2013
Utah Mom Wants Medical Marijuana for Her Son

Utah Mom Wants Medical Marijuana for Her Son

Jennifer May is a devout Mormon and mother of 3, living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her youngest child, 11-year-old Stockton, has Drevet Syndrome and has suffered through...
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August 20, 2013
08/20/2013
New Jersey Dispensary to Provide Meds to Sick Kids for Free

New Jersey Dispensary to Provide Meds to Sick Kids for Free

Thanks to the fact that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has finally eased access to medical marijuana for minors, Compassionate Care Centers of America Foundation, Inc. has said...
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August 20, 2013
08/20/2013
New Jersey Governor Moves on Medical Marijuana for Kids

New Jersey Governor Moves on Medical Marijuana for Kids

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) Friday conditionally vetoed a bill that would have expanded the number of marijuana strains available to patients and allow minors to...
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August 13, 2013
08/13/2013
San Diego Dad Says Medical Pot Use Cost Family Custody

San Diego Dad Says Medical Pot Use Cost Family Custody

San Diego County took two little children away from their parents for a year, and lied about it, because the father used medical marijuana on the advice...
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August 12, 2013
08/12/2013
Reflections on Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s CNN Documentary: WEED

Reflections on Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s CNN Documentary: WEED

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, created a documentary, simply titled WEED, based on a year’s research. The show focused on medical cannabis and aired last night. Overall, I was...
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August 12, 2013
08/12/2013
Cannabis Cure: The Charlotte Figi Saga

Cannabis Cure: The Charlotte Figi Saga

CNN recently “broke” a story that actually hit the scene back in June. The story is that of young Charlotte Figi, a 6-year old from Colorado who...
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August 8, 2013
08/08/2013
Video: Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Marijuana, We’ve Been Terribly Misled, DEA Has No Scientific Basis

Video: Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Marijuana, We’ve Been Terribly Misled, DEA Has No Scientific Basis

Dr. Sanjay Gupta made a huge statement for cannabis reform, when he appeared on Piers Morgan last night and apologized on air for opposing marijuana legalization in...
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August 7, 2013
08/07/2013
Broken Laws Shatter Happy Home: The Alexandria Hill Story

Broken Laws Shatter Happy Home: The Alexandria Hill Story

This story is absolutely heartbreaking but I think it is story that needs to be told. No commentary is necessary to highlight the (forgive my neologism) “f#@ked-upness”...
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July 18, 2013
07/18/2013
Reality Check for Anti-Marijuana Group: Legalization Coming

Reality Check for Anti-Marijuana Group: Legalization Coming

The so-called Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) has been a prolific, yet impotent, anti-marijuana propaganda machine since its inception in the mid 1980′s under President...
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July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
The Atlantic: If Marijuana is Legalized, Who Will Start Using More of It?

The Atlantic: If Marijuana is Legalized, Who Will Start Using More of It?

Ethan Nadelmann, the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, doesn’t think kids and teens are going to start using marijuana more frequently if the...
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July 9, 2013
07/09/2013
4 Shady Drug Bust Tactics

4 Shady Drug Bust Tactics

In a great article on Salon, Kristen Gwynne first examines the shady practice of asset forfeiture, then describes 4 shady drug bust tactics used by police: fake...
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June 26, 2013
06/26/2013
Piers Morgan, Bill Maher: Patrick Kennedy Reefer Madness, Child’s Play to Dismiss With Hard Data

Piers Morgan, Bill Maher: Patrick Kennedy Reefer Madness, Child’s Play to Dismiss With Hard Data

Last night, Patrick Kennedy joined CNN’s Piers Morgan to discuss marijuana legalization on his recurring “Gone to Pot” segment. Before getting into Patrick’s “truths”, hats off to...
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June 19, 2013
06/19/2013
Study: Medical Cannabis Laws Don’t Impact Teen Use Rates

Study: Medical Cannabis Laws Don’t Impact Teen Use Rates

Another study has once again affirmed that the enactment of statewide medical cannabis laws is not associated with increased rates of adolescent marijuana consumption. According to data published this...
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June 10, 2013
06/10/2013
NJ Panel Approves Bill to Ease MMJ Access for Sick Kids

NJ Panel Approves Bill to Ease MMJ Access for Sick Kids

New Jersey’s Senate Judiciary Committee approved a measure to remove the requirement of a pediatrician and psychiatrist to endorse the use of medical marijuana for children that...
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May 24, 2013
05/24/2013
Two NJ Lawmakers Draft Bill to Help Sick Kids Get MMJ

Two NJ Lawmakers Draft Bill to Help Sick Kids Get MMJ

Assemblywoman Linda Stender and Senator Nicholas Scutari of Union County, New Jersey have drafted legislation to help provide medical marijuana to children with serious medical conditions. They...
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May 17, 2013
05/17/2013
Study: Student Drug Testing Programs Linked to Spikes in Hard Drug Use

Study: Student Drug Testing Programs Linked to Spikes in Hard Drug Use

Schools that institute student drug testing programs are likely to experience a rise in students’ consumption of ‘hard’ drugs, according to observational trial data published this week in the Journal...
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May 15, 2013
05/15/2013
Idaho Medical Marijuana Activists Kids Returned

Idaho Medical Marijuana Activists Kids Returned

Last Friday, medical marijuana activists Lindsey and Josh Rinehart’s two sons were returned to them after 17 days. The children were taken after police found marijuana ‘within...
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May 6, 2013
05/06/2013
Study Adds to Evidence That Cigarettes Are a Gateway Drug to Marijuana

Study Adds to Evidence That Cigarettes Are a Gateway Drug to Marijuana

The Pediatric Academic Societies’ (PAS) most recent study of 315 college students “supports the theory that cigarettes are a gateway drug to marijuana” because they found tobacco...
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May 6, 2013
05/06/2013
Idaho Seizes Medical Marijuana Activists’ Kids

Idaho Seizes Medical Marijuana Activists’ Kids

Idaho is officially not a marijuana-friendly state. Although it is bordered on most sides by medical marijuana states (Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Montana), it so far refuses...
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April 29, 2013
04/29/2013
Washington Post: Can We Prescribe Medical Marijuana to Kids?

Washington Post: Can We Prescribe Medical Marijuana to Kids?

In another positive sign of the times for cannabis law reform, please find below a new video from the Washington Post’s The Fold looking at a couple of different situations...
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