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U.S. Funding Focuses on Marijuana’s Harms, Not Benefits

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research funders, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) , spent over $1 billion between 2000 and 2008, with a heavily slanted focus on cannabis abuse and misuse, as well as the negative effects of cannabis. While some funds are being used to study cannabis medical treatments, the majority of funding is still used to research harms.

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5 Things to Talk About Besides Politics

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Between 2000-2018, United States funding sources invested roughly 20 times more money into exposing marijuana’s harms than exploring its benefits. Making matters worse, there’s only one farm in the entire country with DEA approval to cultivate marijuana for research purposes. For more details, see: Best Cannabis Disorder Treatment?

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Nevada veterinarians can now treat patients with certain cannabis products

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Steve Sisolak signed Assembly Bill 101, making Nevada the first state to legalize the use of cannabinoids as a veterinary treatment. Nevada voters approved medical marijuana for people by ballot initiative in 2000. Cannabis became legal for recreational use in the state on Jan. Earlier this year, Gov.

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MAPS Is 36 Years Old – Doblin Provides Precis Timeline of the Organization

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as a non-profit organization to fulfill the need to broaden psychedelic research, therapy, and develop legal options for psychedelic medicine. Now, we are closer than ever to legalizing MDMA-assisted therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), though there is still a long road ahead. MAPS Founder Rick Doblin, Ph.D.,

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The Marijuana Conspiracy

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The oldest surviving piece of paper was made over 2000 years ago in China and was also made from hemp fibre. It was LEGAL TO PAY TAXES WITH HEMP in America from 1631 until the early 1800s; LA Times, Aug. Are you aware there are LEGAL drugstores?! Money rules the world, so why don’t the industrialists make it legal?