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New American Medical Association Study Shows Cannabis Legalization Not Linked to Increased Psychosis

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However, a 2023 study debunks many myths about the potential dangers of legalizing cannabis. This groundbreaking research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry (JAMA), challenges previous claims that marijuana legalization increases psychosis and other mental health issues. 1, 2003, to Dec.

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What are the marijuana laws in Russia?

The Cannigma

Medical: illegal Recreational: illegal (possession of up to 6 grams was decriminalized in 2004). Is weed legal in Russia? Bryun also stated that 1-3% of people smoking cannabis develop severe psychosis, including schizophrenia (an assertion not supported by science) and thus “legalization is out of the question in this case.”.

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Howard Dean Hops On Cannabis Bandwagon

Cannabis Law Report

In those days, says Dean, he felt proponents of medical marijuana were just using their support for that issue as a smokescreen for a general push toward full legalization. Dean, who served five two-year terms from 1991 to 2003 as Vermont governor, was against all of it.

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South African Farmers Are Protesting the Region’s Racist Cannabis Licensing Process

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Black South African agricultural organizations are not content on standing by while the country’s legal cannabis industry kicks off on a racist foot. The Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment is a plan that was adopted by the country in 2003 to compensate for land that had been stolen from Black farmers during South African apartheid.

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New Hampshire Just Made Autism and Insomnia Qualifying Conditions for Medical Marijuana Program

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New Hampshire did decriminalize minor pot possession back in 2017, but lawmakers have failed to advance a full adult-use legalization bill. Meanwhile, adult-use weed is completely legal in every state and country bordering New Hampshire- Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine, and Canada.

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Canada: The Constitutional Right to Marijuana in Canada: R v Parker

Cannabis Law Report

Canada emerged as the first federal G7 and G20 nation – the second country ever – to legalize the cultivation and consumption of cannabis and its by-products. This article is about R v Parker , the leading medical marijuana case that represented the first legal crack to bring down the prohibition-era wall. Conclusion.

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AIMS v. Garland: A Disappointment for Psilocybin Advocates, but Progressive Policy May Still be on the Horizon

Cannabis Law Report

Psilocybin’s therapeutic benefits are so promising that Denver, Colorado became the first city to decriminalize psilocybin in May 2019, and in 2020, Oregon passed Measure 109, which paved the road for a program allowing for legal manufacture, delivery, and administration of psilocybin to clients at supervised, licensed facilities in the state.

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