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The trend toward marijuana legalization is growing, but the legality, or illegality, of cannabis at the federal level hasn’t changed at all.
The Australian government will now accept licence applications for groups wanting to grow cannabis for scientific and medical purposes. But there’s still a lot we don’t know about this complex plant.
Nine states are deciding whether to legalize marijuana. Yet the drug’s prohibition at the federal level has created an unstable financial environment for producers and retailers.
With restrictions to cannabis loosening at the state level, research is badly needed to get the facts in order.
There is strong evidence that cannabis is useful for treating a range of conditions. Legalising small-scale cultivation is a start to helping those in need.
Cannabis has a long history, and its misuse hangs over it like a dark shadow.
A new study found that people who are high on cannabis are less likely to opt for a task with a larger reward if the task requires more effort.
But is the data misleading?
An era of prohibition may soon be over for marijuana, and powerful players are watching. A legal expert explains how smaller, local producers can keep their pot in the game.
The phrase ‘medical marijuana’ might give you the image of people buying plants or dried marijuana to smoke. But that’s not always the case.
The potential harms associated with using cannabis depend, above all others, on two things: the age at which you first begin to use cannabis and the frequency, dose and duration of use.
Synthetic cannabinoids – drugs that mimic the psychoactive effect of cannabis – have been linked to injuries and deaths. And when one is banned, another rises to take its place.
Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug with more than 181 million consumers worldwide, three quarters of whom are men. Why do men and women use cannabis?
The way you take a drug affects how much of it gets to your brain, and how rapidly drug levels rise and fall.
For over 500 years, the drug has been associated with racism and poverty.
The legislative changes poised to increase the availability of cannabis are outpacing our understanding of the impact that the drug has on the brain.
Queenslanders and Victorians with particular chronic illnesses will be eligible to join New South Wales medicinal cannabis trials, due to start mid next year.
The myth has been debunked time and time again.
At present, cannabis is fully legalized in Colorado and Washington and will soon be fully legalized in Oregon and Alaska. Additionally, medical cannabis is legal in 23 states. The writing is on the wall…
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