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Tuesday, May 21, Los Angeles voters will determine the fate and future of medical marijuana dispensaries in America's second-largest city. The LA City Council’s struggles to regulate dispensaries have been well documented. But today, LA voters will ta...

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New Poll: At Least 60% of All Voters Continue to Call for Fixing Marijuana Possession Laws, Including Half of Republicans; Poll is Third This Year Showing Strong Majority Support For Reform Thousands More New Yorkers Have Been Arrested – at Cost of Estimated $7.5 Million – for Possessing Small Amounts of Marijuana Since April 1 [Continue Reading]

By Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director Brain imaging research published this month in the journal Molecular Psychiatry provides physiological evidence as to why cannabis may mitigate certain symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Post-traumatic stress syndrome is an anxiety disorder that is estimated to impact some eight million Americans annually. Yet, to date, there are no pharmaceutical treatments specifically designed or [Continue Reading]

Marijuana: The Next Diabetes Drug?” Toking up may help marijuana users to stay slim and lower their risk of developing diabetes, according to the latest study, which suggests that cannabis compounds may help in controlling blood sugar. Revisiting the ‘Crack Babies’ Epidemic That Was Not Retro Report tells the story of the epidemic that wasn’t through firsthand accounts by some of those at the center of things: the researcher who put out the alarm, a pediatric expert who originally cast doubt on his findings and one of the original cocaine-exposed research subjects, a young woman whose life helped disprove the myth of what these infants would become. Organization of American States launches groundbreaking drug policy report exploring alternatives to the war on drugs Drug policy reform has been a taboo issue for decades – but for the first time representatives from 34 countries across the Americas have had the courage to break that taboo and envision real alternatives to the war on drugs. It is a clear acknowledgement that the global prohibition has failed to deliver what was promised and that a range of alternatives should be meaningfully explored. How to Legalize Pot (Bill Keller, NY Times) The marijuana debate has entered a new stage. Today the most interesting and important question is no longer whether marijuana will be legalized — eventually, bit by bit, it will be — but how. Honduran victims of US drug war still await justice One year later, the exact role that the DEA agents played in the deaths of Juana Jackson, Candelaria Trapp Nelson, Emerson Martinez and Hasked Brooks Wood remains unclear. The US government has never conducted an independent investigation into the incident, and has obstructed the Honduran investigation by denying the investigators access to either the ten DEA agents involved or their weapons. Marijuana By Itself Not a Significant Factor in Fatal and Injury Crashes in 2012 New Times’ findings, based on a records request satisfied by DPS this week, jibe with statistics we reported earlier this month in our feature article about Arizona’s zero-tolerance marijuana-DUI law (link below). Drivers suspected of impairment in crashes that hurt or killed people in Phoenix, Chandler, and Scottsdale were rarely found to be impaired by marijuana, our earlier research showed. Time to overturn the 1971 drugs law (Richard Branson) If the war on drugs were a business, we’d have shut it down immediately. Current drug policies are counter-productive, and we need to think seriously about new policies that will deliver good value for money. Quotable: If you haven’t got a problem with your drug use then getting arrested and prosecuted is the last thing you need. If you’ve got a problem with your drug use then getting arrested and prosecuted is the last thing you need. – @TomCLloyd

U-T San Diego Editorial Board As more states enact laws allowing the compassionate use of marijuana as medicine for patients with serious illnesses, they’re getting smarter about how to do it without creating a mess similar to the chaotic legal mishmash in California. Unfortunately, California is moving in the opposite direction, creating an even bigger mess. As more states enact laws allowing the compassionate use of marijuana as medicine for patients with serious illnesses, they’re getting smarter about how to do it without creating a mess similar to the chaotic legal mishmash in California. Unfortunately, California is moving in the opposite direction, creating an even bigger mess. sparc-pot-dispensary-2.jpg wide format: normal: 547px include floating ad read more

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