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Medical Cannabis is Legalized in the U.K., but Suffers from Access Issues

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legalized medical marijuana on November 1 st of last year – roughly 18 years after one of its closest Commonwealth allies, Canada, set up its own medical cannabis program in 2001. WeedAdvisor’s Commitment to International Advocacy. . Considerably late to the party, the U.K.

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Press Release: Terrapin calls on the cannabis industry to lead an anti-racist movement

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Each year since 2001, the United States has averaged more than 600,000 marijuana arrests , with Black individuals being roughly four times more likely than their white counterparts to be arrested for possession. Terrapin also operates a medical and recreational cannabis grower/processor facility in Grand Rapids, Mich.

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New Study: Demographic and policy-based differences in behaviors and attitudes towards driving after marijuana use: an analysis of the 2013–2017 Traffic Safety Culture Index

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We tabulated responses to questions about driving after marijuana use from the Traffic Safety Culture Index based on demographic factors, recreational and medical marijuana policies, and per-se marijuana laws. Support for per-se laws was higher among those in states that legalized recreational marijuana and in states with per-se laws.

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DOJ Report: The Cannabis Effect on Crime: Time-Series Analysis of Crime in Colorado and Washington State

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We observed no statistically significant long-term effects of recreational cannabis laws or the initiation of retail sales on violent or property crime rates in these states. As Garland ( 2001 Garland, D. ( 2001 ). Advocacy groups, both for and against marijuana legalization might also contribute to this problem.

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Serbian Patients Face Jail as Medical Marijuana Legalisation Stalls. so far 20 have gone to jail

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Few medicines have helped him, but his condition drastically improved after he started treating himself with cannabis oil in 2001. “I Fifty-nine-year old Dragoljub Mrdjic has suffered from epilepsy for most of his life. I tried standard medicine, but there wasn’t much of a result.

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Paper: The transition of cannabis into the mainstream of Australian healthcare: framings in professional medical publications

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The Cannabis sativa plant has an incredibly multi-layered, rich, and versatile history of human uses for food and fibre, as well as recreational, and religious and spiritual purposes throughout the world (McPartland and Hegman 2018 ; Aldrich 1997 ; Touw 1981 ; Li 1974 ; Bonini et al. 2018 ; Frankhauser 2008 ).

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Psychedelic Invest’s 100 Most Influential People in Psychedelics List

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Healing Advocacy Fund. Sam is the Executive Director of the Healing Advocacy Fund, which is the nonprofit organization supporting the implementation of Measure 109 in Oregon. In 2020, he co-founded New Yorkers for Mental Health Alternatives, an advocacy group dedicated to psychedelic law reform in New York. Sam Chapman.