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‘But What About The Children?’ They’re Doing Just Fine, Thank You: Fewer Teens Than Adults Smoke Marijuana

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‘But What About The Children?’ They’re Doing Just Fine, Thank You: Fewer Teens Than Adults Smoke Marijuana
CDC Says The Kids Are All Right: Changing Marijuana Laws Have Had No Effect On Teen Marijuana Use The weird, wild ride of marijuana as an illegal substance in the U.S. appears to be coming to an end. There are currently 25 states that allow some form of legal, regulated medical marijuana use, along with four–Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska–that allow recreational use.… Read the rest

Unhappy With DEA Restrictions On Marijuana Research, Washington State Begins Its Own Testing Program

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Unhappy With DEA Restrictions On Marijuana Research, Washington State Begins Its Own Testing Program
Onerous DEA Regs Getting Irksome: Washington State Sidesteps Them On Marijuana Testing In the wake of the DEA’s latest inexplicable decision to keep marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug (read: huge favor for Big Pharma) the agency’s collective jamming of its head in the sand caused many observers threw up their hands in a collective WTF moment. The Schedule 1 designation puts marijuana on the same plane of potential danger as heroin, and indicates that it has no known medical use, a notion which the DEA’s own actions contradict: if there is no known medical use for it, why has the DEA opened up testing protocols and regulations, allowing pharmaceutical companies to grow their own strains for testing purposes, and to develop pharmaceuticals from the plant?… Read the rest