Marijuana Has Less Adverse Effect on Driving Than Alcohol, Tiredness, U.K. Study Says
Crowthorne, Berkshire, United Kingdom: Marijuana appears to have less adverse impact on driving ability than does alcohol, according to findings from a recent study by the U.K.’s Transport Research Laboratory (TRL). The results replicate earlier findings recorded in the U.S., Australia and elsewhere indicating that marijuana intoxication plays a relatively insignificant role in vehicular accidents. NORML Foundation Director Allen St. Pierre said the results were not surprising. “Study after study shows that marijuana’s slight...
read moreThe Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol
The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol is the driving force behind a 2012 statewide ballot initiative to end marijuana prohibition and regulate marijuana like alcohol in Colorado. It is a locally based effort being carried out by a broad and growing coalition of activists, organizations, businesses, and professionals throughout the state and across the nation. The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012, which will appear on the November ballot as Amendment 64, makes the adult use of marijuana legal, establishes a system in...
read moreAfter success passing boiler bill, GOP Rep. Morgan Griffith looks at medical pot
Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) has been prolific for a freshman, introducing five bills last year and seeing one of them overwhelmingly pass the House. But there is one issue he’d like to tackle that he is hesitant about: medical marijuana. In Virginia, the medical marijuana law restricts its use to cancer and glaucoma patients, but doctors, due to fear of the Drug Enforcement Administration and a lack of marijuana dispensaries, rarely prescribe it. Read...
read moreBoulder DA asks feds to back off on medical marijuana dispensaries – The Denver Post
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett has sent a letter to the top federal prosecutor in Colorado, asking the feds to drop their crack-down on medical-marijuana dispensaries that are abiding by state law. In the letter, dated Tuesday, Garnett writes that Colorado has created a system for regulating medical-marijuana businesses that is working and argues it is not worth the federal government’s time to target dispensaries abiding by state law. Read...
read moreCannabis Is “An Effective Treatment” For Cancer Patients, Israeli Study Concludes
Some two-thirds of Israeli cancer patients authorized to use cannabis report long-term, symptomatic improvement from the plant, according to clinical data presented in late January at a conference of the Israeli Oncologists Union and reported this week in several international media outlets. Read...
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