Americans believe that consuming cannabis poses less harm to health than does the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, or sugar, according to the findings of a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released today. Respondents were asked which of the four substances they believed to be “most harmful to a person’s overall health.” Most respondents said tobacco (49 percent), followed by alcohol (24 percent) and sugar (15 percent).
In a profile published online over the weekend in New Yorker magazine, President Barack Obama…
The passage of medical cannabis laws is associated with a reduction in the public’s consumption of alcohol and with fewer incidences of alcohol-related traffic fatalities, according to data published in the Journal of Law and Economics.
Our friends at High Times scored a really provocative and informative interview with Vicente Fox, the…
The nation’s so-called ‘drug czar’, Gil Kerlikowske, convened a press conference last week to release new…
Three quarters of medical cannabis consumers report using it as a substitute for prescription drugs,…
The NORML Women’s Alliance is calling on women nationwide, who believe in the controlled regulation of marijuana to host a phone banking party with your like-minded sisters and encourage women to vote “Yes” on CO’s Amendment 64. Organizing a phone banking event to call women voters in CO is the most important contribution you can make in this election (and the cheapest). We need to reach as many women as possible.
The passage and enactment of a statewide marijuana ballot measure this fall could generate as…