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Marijuana Legalization in NY & Driving: Response to NYS Association of Police Chiefs from Roc NORML

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. % Change ( +/-) from previous year. 2 years before medical legalization, the largest number of vehicle-related fatalities in the last 17 years. 1 year prior to legalization. Sales began January 1.

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First ethics at MAPS in question and now Australia’s Mind Medicine look to have some serious integrity issues too

Cannabis Law Report

military officers at the National Defense University in Washington DC from 2004 till 2010. He is an outspoken commentator on Climate Change and Security using community advocacy to raise awareness of the potential costs of inaction. He consulted with state and federal regulators to design policy and legislation. He has a B.Sc.

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

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These publications offer valuable indicators for current debates and disputes, political contestations, demands for reform or policy change, reactions to research activities and evidence, as well as attitudes from the medical profession towards new treatments and therapies like medicinal cannabis.

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Vermont’s Cannabis Board Rejects Proposed 15% THC Cap on Cannabis

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The state’s leading physician advocacy group, the Vermont Medical Society , initially issued the rejected recommendations to the Cannabis Control Board. Medical cannabis was legalized 14 years prior in 2004. Should the harm reduction policy be approved, it stands to help manage and reduce racial disparities in enforcement.

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MG Magazine Reports On Luke Scarmazzo: California’s Last Federal Medical Marijuana Prisoner

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A victim of flawed federal law enforcement policy, he remains behind bars in the federal prison at Yazoo City, Mississippi. Luke Scarmazzo: If you’d told me that when we opened the dispensary in 2004, I would have said no way we’d still be incarcerating people for cannabis seventeen years later. It’s ridiculous.

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Entertainers and athletes double down on Presidential request for mass cannabis pardons

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cannabis reform advocacy group, The Weldon Project followed up on a March letter signed by over 150 influencers, politicians, and experts urging President Biden to deliver on his promise to pardon all non-violent cannabis offenders. Last week (Sept 14.), See full letter and signees here). Meanwhile, Ralo is living a nightmare.”. “We