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A Founder Looks at 50: Willie Nelson — America’s Favorite Marijuana Smoker

NORML

For NORML’s 50th anniversary, every Friday we will be posting a blog from NORML’s Founder Keith Stroup as he reflects back on a lifetime as America’s foremost marijuana smoker and legalization advocate. This is the eighth in a series of blogs on the history of NORML and the legalization movement. And they did.

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Study: Marijuana Use Trends In The United States

MassRoots

Marijuana use in the States has been steadily on the rise for over a decade. The study, authored by William Mitchell, Roma Bhatia, and Nazlee Zebardast, used data collected by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2005 to 2018. . In 2005, 61.5 percent in 2005, and the highest was 62.7

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Marijuana Legalization in NY & Driving: Response to NYS Association of Police Chiefs from Roc NORML

NORML

Roc NORML is the Rochester chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and we want to make sure the public is aware that statement is simply not true. You can read more about marijuana and psychomotor performance on NORML’s factsheet here. 1 year prior to legalization. Sales began January 1.

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New Study Finds Alarming Trend Among Older Marijuana Users

The Fresh Toast

New Study Finds Alarming Trend Among Older Marijuana Users. Cannabis-related emergency department visits went from a total of 366 in 2005 to 12,167 in 2019. The post New Study Finds Alarming Trend Among Older Marijuana Users appeared first on The Fresh Toast.

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Statements by Justice Clarence Thomas Are Not an Endorsement of Marijuana

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently said that the federal ban on the cultivation and use of marijuana within states “may no longer be necessary or proper” and that inconsistent enforcement led to “traps” for marijuana businesses. Justice Thomas doesn’t want marijuana to be legalized. United States , the U.S.

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Cannabis and Biotech Board Chair Arrested for Securities Fraud

Cannabis Law Report

Dhillon, 60, executive chairman of medical marijuana firm Emerald Health Therapeutics Inc., From 2005 to 2009, Dhillon was chief executive officer of Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. was arrested Wednesday on charges brought by federal prosecutors in Boston, who said he made more than $2 million from the scheme.

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New Orleans Police Say Rats Are Eating Their Marijuana, ‘They’re All High’

Veriheal

The rats are eating our marijuana,” Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick told the city council’s Criminal Justice Committee at a hearing on the building’s sanitation. An anonymous NOPD source told reporters that rats have been in the building for two decades, starting after Hurricane Katrina flooded the basements in 2005.

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