Drug policy reform advocates pen letter-to-the-editor to Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) encouraging them to not confuse specific cannabinoid research with whole cannabis products in general as an effective and safe medicinal therapeutic.
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The editors at US News & World Report are asking the question, ‘Is it time…
I’m NORML’s Deputy Director, a Californian, and a parent. This why I told my local…
In a society awash in alcohol, he dares to ask the pivotal question:
Why do our laws embrace and celebrate the use of alcohol, an intoxicant that directly contributes to tens of thousands of deaths annually and countless social problems, while stigmatizing and criminalizing the use of cannabis, a substance that is incapable of causing lethal overdose and is associated with far fewer societal costs?
It’s drug law reformers — not prohibitionists — that wish to bring regulation and control to what is now an unregulated, illicit black market commodity. It is NORML, not the Drug Czar, that has testified in favor of taxing and regulating cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol — with the drug’s sale and use restricted to specific markets and consumers.
Following yesterday’s blog post regarding the use of cannabinoids as potential treatment agents for gliomas,…
Take a closer look at how the mainstream media lies about cannabis.