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White Kids in Florida Do So Many More Drugs Than Minorities, According to DCF Survey

The amount of Florida middle and high school students who have used drugs, cigarettes or alcohol continues to decline according to the latest survey by the State’s Department of Children and Families. The findings represent a steady decline in substanc…

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Getting Grandma to try pot

Robert Platshorn started the Silver Tour in Florida to rally senior citizens for the legalization of medical marijuana in the state.money.cnn.com

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Medical marijuana to blame for 45 percent increase in school drug violations?

Over the last four years, drug violations at Colorado K-12 schools have increased by roughly 45 percent. And according to a report shared by Education News Colorado about the issue, the rise can be squarely attributed to medical marijuana dispensaries….

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Over-Medicated America: How Big Pharma Greed Hooked The US (Infographic)

Some of us are aware that the pharmaceutical industry is, even as we speak, likely making a move to take over the medical marijuana industry, eliminate dispensaries, eliminate home-growing, eliminate cannabis flowers, and reduce “medical marijuana” to …

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Medical marijuana: Fort Collins dispensaries sue to stop Valentine’s Day ban

By 7 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, all medical marijuana centers in Fort Collins must close their doors thanks to a voter-approved ban passed last November. But there may be hope for a renewed romance between the city and dispensaries, as a handful of cente…

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Worth Repeating: Marijuana Treats Anxiety and Depression

The “cannabinoid homeostatic healing perspective” has quietly been gathering evidence over the last 10 years which overwhelmingly supports the need for human trials to test the use of medical marijuana as a psychiatric treatment. The 75 years of (mis)i…

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Majority of Canadians support legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana, new poll suggests | …

Released on Tuesday, the poll suggests 66% of Canadians are in favour of the legalization or decriminalization of marijuana, with just 20% supporting leaving the laws as they are nownews.nationalpost.com

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It’s Official: Smoking Marijuana is Safer Than Puffing on Cigarettes

The anti-smoking Nazis have taken control of the greater Los Angeles area, prohibiting your bad habit even in many outdoor dining areas.blogs.laweekly.com

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The Ten Dankest Marijuana Strains of 2011 (PICS)

The nation’s best marijuana critic, William Breathes, smoked more than 140 different samples of medical marijuana in 2011. We sent him down fuzzy-memory lane and asked him to pick out the top ten strains he smokedwww.westword.com

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Marijuana Makes You Crazy, Says New Study (Yeah, Tell us Something we Don’t Know)

​Marijuana might be medicine of sorts in California, but a growing body of research suggests that it ultimately might make you crazy. (Not that other prescriptions drugs can’t do their own voodoo on your head).blogs.laweekly.com

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The Top Five Marijuana Stories Of 2011

2011 was a big year in marijuana news. From new findings about teens and marijuana to the presidential admin. Here are the top weed stories of the year.www.hailmaryjane.com

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Police Seize Pot From High Schoolers on SWAT Snowboarding Trip

Teens on a bus trip to Utah for what would be three whole days of parent-free debauchery in the snow were busted by cops this week for having a massive stash of marijuana. Party foul.blogs.ocweekly.com

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Rand Study On Medical Pot Among Year’s Worst, Scientific American Says

Remember that Rand Corporation study from earlier this year that claimed crime actually increased in L.A. neighborhoods where cops closed medical marijuana dispensaries? The one that forgot to include crime statistics compiled by the Los Angeles Police…

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Marijuana Use Is on the Rise … Among Dogs and Cats

Like their humans, animals are known to consume marijuana. In fact, many have long known that pot producers in the northern counties deer-proof their marijuana plants, else docile does and bucks will chew on the buds and leaves. This author once knew a…

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Deputies Give Marijuana Back To Dispensary Under Court Order

Deputies returned two pounds of seized cannabis to a California dispensary on Friday after a court ruled that the marijuana had been improperly confiscated.www.tokeofthetown.com

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That’s a Lot of Effing Weed: 10 of the Biggest Marijuana Seizures in History

No weed smoker in the world has ever uttered the phrase “Man, I wish I didn’t have so much!” If that isn’t a documented fact, it damn well should be.www.brobible.com

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A Cannabis Christmas Wish… A Marijuana Chanukah Hint

It’s really easy these days to be negative about cannabis. The Feds are waving their guns around like old-time Western town bullies. Playing with the tin-horns and the dandy Easterners alike, making them dance to a tune that we thought was long gone.ww…

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Med. marijuana patients must wait 6 months to reapply if applications found to be ‘fraudulent’

Our William Breathes has been closely following the fate of approximately 4,000 medical marijuana applications put on hold by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, reportedly over concerns that physician assistants, not doctors, con…

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Marijuana Dispensary Trades Pot for Food to Feed the Hungry

Medical marijuana users are accustomed to the munchies sending them on a hunt for food. Now they have a place where giving their food away can score them some pot.abcnews.go.com

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6 of the Most Epic Weed Strains of All-Time

It’s hard to determine the exact origins of strains. Even amongst the most official sources, strains that have the same name are not always the same. There is very little uniformity in the marijuana world. That said, there are several strains that ha…

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