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Tag: New Zealand

Marijuana and Voting
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New Zealand: Voters to Decide Saturday on Nationwide Marijuana Legalization Referendum

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on October 12, 2020October 12, 2020

If passed by voters, New Zealand will become only the third country – following Canada and Uruguay – to legalize adult-use cannabis sales nationwide.

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Marijuana Arrests
  • Activism

Study Says Pot Smoking Doesn't Raise Cancer Risk: Will the Media Care?

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on March 5, 2008June 9, 2020

So for the second month in a row we have researchers from New Zealand telling us that pot smoking has little-to-no association with cancer. But perhaps you missed the first study.

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Marijuana and Health
  • Activism

Latest Pot/Lung Cancer Warning Is Nothing But Hot Air

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on February 1, 2008June 9, 2020

Had anyone in the mainstream media even bothered to read the study, which appears in the European Respiratory Journal, they would have stumbled across this nugget, “While cannabis smoking … was not associated with a significantly increased risk of lung cancer, those with the highest tertile of use had a significantly increased risk.”

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