In a groundbreaking move, Colorado and Washington voters have passed referendums legalizing marijuana for recreational use. The drug is still banned under federal law. Colorado’s Proposition 64 to the state’s constitution makes it legal for anyone over the age of 21 to possess marijuana and for
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Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the Cannabis plant intended for medical or recreational use. The main psychoactive part of cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC); one of 483 known compounds in the plant, including at least 65 other cannabinoids.
Maybe all of us are engaged in a lifelong fight to find our better natures. But some of us, perhaps the luckiest ones, find a reliable shortcut. For Willie Nelson, that shortcut has turned out to be pot.
California’s cultural reach and influence will make it the turning point in the battle to legalize marijuana nationwide, says Javier Hasse.
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‘A man that changed the world’: Activist who helped legalize medical pot in California, arguing that it helped AIDS patients, dies aged 72 from lung cancer
Vermont became the ninth U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana use on Monday after Republican Governor Phil Scott signed a bill legalizing possession of limited amounts of the drug. The new law, which goes into effect on July 1, allows for possession of up to 1 ounce of marijuana, two
You may be surprised to learn that recreational drugs are in the Netherlands. Yes, even pot. But an official policy of tolerance emerged and in 1976 the Dutch parliament decriminalized possession of less than 5 grams of cannabis.
Ann Lee, a Texas Republican and devout Catholic, thought marijuana was the “weed of the devil.” Like so many Americans, Lee believed pot was a dangerous “gateway” drug that tempted the unwary into a dissolute existence. But when Lee’s son, Richard, suffered a severe spinal injury two