#1 Colorado and Washington Vote To Legalize Marijuana Voters in Colorado and Washington made history by approving ballot measures allowing for the personal possession and consumption of cannabis by...
012 Despite several attempts by the media and policy makers to associate the rising number of state regulated medical marijuana programs (and popular legalization efforts) with a...
Adults with a history of marijuana use have a lower prevalence of type 2 diabetes and possess a lower risk of contracting the disease than those with...
The Medical Marijuana Business Daily, an industry new service, projects that if marijuana were legalized nationwide it would result in a market potentially worth more than $46 billion.
A new study “California Youth Crime Plunges to All-Time Low” shows between 2010 and 2011, California experienced a drastic 20 percent decrease in juvenile crime, a level...
Let’s be honest. If you thought prisons were drug free you weren’t really paying attention. But all drugs aren’t the same. Stimulants such as alcohol and cocaine...
A 6-year study of Britain’s drug laws by the UK Drug Policy Commission, an independent advisory body of leading scientists, police officers, academics and experts has concluded it’s time for decriminalization and...
01:51pm Along with catalyzing devastating violence that has claimed 60,000 lives thus far, there’s another good reason for Mexico to end its ill-fated drug war —...
According to a study by a respected Mexican Think Tank, the legalization of recreational marijuana, which we will hopefully see after next week, could reduce cartel profits by...
A new review, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, suggests that drugs similar to marijuana’s active ingredients may hold promise for preventing, or even reversing, brain...
Police made 757,969 arrests in 2011 for marijuana-related offenses, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. The total is a decrease from past years....
The amount of time drug offenders serve in federal prison has increased 250 percent since 1987, and as a result, drug offenders now make up 48 percent...
In the 25 years from 1986 to 2010, police and sheriffs’ departments in Colorado made 210,000 arrests for the crime of possessing small amounts of marijuana, according...
Anyone still on the fence that cannabis has no medicinal value — and especially anyone still on the fence in the medical or healthcare fields — should...
Here is a very comprehensive list of research articles, abstracts, news stories and other references about cannabis and heart disease. These links are listed under ‘Heart Disease...
According to a report from the National Center for Biotechnology Information, cannabidiolic acid has been shown to inhibit MDA-MB-231, a powerful human breast cancer cell. Another scientific study,...
In a press conference this morning, representatives from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced...
