Tag: drug use

Raw Story’s Travis Gettys explains that while Colorado lets you smoke pot, employers still have the right to fire employees for it.

Resident breastplate-nipple Gil Kerlikowski and Prohibitionist Jr. Woodchuck Kevin Sabet have reacted in truly glorious form to the new teen drug use survey, citing a statistically miniscule...

One of our rituals in the United States is the annual release of two major national surveys of drug use — the National Survey on Drug Use...

This year’s annual Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey on the habits of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders was released Wednesday, and most of the results were uncontroversial. But with...

As part of my/our ongoing quest to combat misleading, incomplete, or down right bad “facts” about marijuana, I recently found myself perusing the cannabis page at Above...

Susan Sarandon, respected actress and member of MPP’s VIP Advisory Board, lightheartedly confessed on Wednesday that she has used marijuana before attending almost all award shows. The admission...

It’s happening everywhere. Maybe in your very own neighborhood. People enjoying themselves with marijuana…but not suffering all the agony of smoking it! They’re using these mysterious new gadgets which...

A new Harvard study finds no evidence that marijuana causes schizophrenia.

In an interview on Fusion, Bill Clinton denies that he denied using marijuana.

A new study reveals the cause of marijuana memory problems, and suggests that over-the-counter painkillers can prevent this drawback of a cannabis lifestyle.

Bob Dylan has until recently been denied the highest honor in French society, the Legion d’Honneur, because of pot.

The effect of cannabis on newborns and pregnant women are not negative, and may even be positive, according to a study in Jamaica.

Over the past decade, positive drug tests for marijuana in the general workforce have dropped by 1/3.

Many recent victories towards ending marijuana prohibition give hope that our justice system will stop incarcerating nonviolent adults who choose to use a substance safer than alcohol....

Nearly two-thirds of Americans disagree with workplace policies that allow employers to sanction an employee for his or her off-the-job consumption of cannabis, according to a just released...

Yesterday, the BBC reported that Instagram had blocked several drug-related hashtags after a BBC investigation about drug sales on the photo-sharing network. Curious to see what had...

Jacob Sullum explains on Forbes that marijuana legalization will reduce drinking, producing public health benefits such as fewer traffic deaths.

A New York Times article this week, Few Problems With Cannabis for California, reports that a pending study in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management by Mark Anderson and...

Marijuana seeds will no longer be illegal in Slovakia as of March 2014, according to a report in the Slovak Spectator. The decision came Wednesday in a proposal...

The presence of various controlled substances in blood is associated with an increased risk of fatal crash involvement, according to data published online in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention....