Year: 2017

massachusetts marijuana laws

Testimony Submitted By MassCann/NORML In Massachusetts To Cannabis Control Commission

All of these stakeholders have an interest in treating legal marijuana as a disaster to be delayed and restricted as much as possible. But the voters didn’t vote for a disaster, they voted for an opportunity: new jobs, new revenue, safer communities, better community-police relations. We want you to respect the will of the voters, and that means not working against legalization as some kind of threat, but moving ahead with legalization as a fine new opportunity. Legal marijuana is a great thing for Massachusetts! Make it happen!

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Marijuana and Veterans

VA Secretary Shulkin Still Hasn’t Responded to The American Legion’s Call for Marijuana Research

The Legion recently ramped up their efforts to convince VA Secretary Shulkin to expand research into the therapeutic and medicinal effects of cannabis by sending him a letter demanding for his direct involvement in making sure the medical marijuana study meets its goals.

That letter was sent on September 19th. 17 days ago.

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Smoke billows from behind a pile of cannabis plants that have been cut down in a field during a marijuana eradication operation.

DEA Report: Marijuana Seizures Increased By 20 Percent In 2016

According to the DEA’s Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Statistical Report, agents and cooperating agencies confiscated more than 5.3 million marijuana plants nationwide in 2016. The total is a 20 percent increase over the agency’s 2015 seizure totals and is the most plants seized by the DEA since 2011, when law enforcement confiscated more than 6.7 million plants.

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