MA Marijuana News

August, 2015

• 10 August

  Denver Petition Would Allow Public Marijuana Consumption

  A pro-marijuana group in Denver says it has enough signatures to get a measure for public marijuana consumption onto the November ...
• 9 August

  NIDA Director: CBD is “a safe drug with no addictive effects”

  Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a U.S. government institution, believes that cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive ...
• 7 August

  U.S. Marijuana Industry: Great for America, Awful for Cartels

  Medical and recreational marijuana legalization has led to many proven benefits in the United States: increased tax revenues, new jobs, healthier marijuana, and ...
• 6 August

  Arizona Campaign to Legalize Marijuana Hits 50K Signatures

  The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol (CRMLA) in Arizona announced that they have collected 50,000 signatures within 10 weeks. The ...
• 5 August

  Study: Emails More Damaging to IQ Than Marijuana

  A British study by TNS Research revealed that workers who are distracted by phone calls, emails and text messages tend to ...
• 4 August

  5 New York Medical Marijuana Dispensary Licensees Announced

  The New York State Department of Health has awarded five companies cultivation and dispensing licenses for the state’s medical marijuana program. ...
• 2 August

  Study: Marijuana May Help Heal Broken Bones

  In a new study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Israeli scientists found that broken bones healed quicker ...
• 1 August

  Petition Forces UK Parliament to Debate Marijuana Legalization

  A marijuana petition in Britain has recently received 158,000 signatures which forces parliament to debate marijuana legalization in September. The British government’s Petitions Committee ...

July, 2015

• 31 July

  4 Reasons Why Law Enforcement Want to Legalize Marijuana

  Law enforcement was designed to protect our communities, but marijuana prohibition – and the drug war as a whole – has ...
• 29 July

  Marijuana Could Aid in America’s Drug Overdose Epidemic

  A 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) found that nearly 5 million Americans have tried heroin. Nearly three-fourths ...