Here are 15 questions on pot for U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has only talked briefly on marijuana. So what pot questions are being asked via #AskTheSurgeonGeneral? Here are 15 of them.
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has only talked briefly on marijuana. So what pot questions are being asked via #AskTheSurgeonGeneral? Here are 15 of them.
The House now has its own version of a historic piece of legislation that would legalize medical marijuana at a federal level. A bipartisan group introduced the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States (CARERS) Act in the Senate earlier this month, hoping to remove federal prohibitions on medical marijuana in the states where it is already legal. A bipartisan group in the House introduced a companion bill on Tuesday.
With little fanfare, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has thrown her support behind a historic Senate bill to comprehensively reform medical marijuana at the federal level.
Two Democratic senators and a possible Republican presidential candidate joined forces Tuesday to push a bill to remove federal prohibitions on medical marijuana in 23 states where it’s already legal. The measure also would reclassify marijuana to Schedule II.
Two weeks ago, the Colorado Board of Health awarded grants totaling $8 million to research marijuana’s medical potential. The studies funded by these grants will help evaluate marijuana’s safety and efficacy in treating epilepsy, brain tumors, Parkinson’s disease and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The money is coming from Colorado’s medical marijuana patient fees and new taxes on recreational pot. And while a group of medical marijuana patients announced a lawsuit challenging Colorado’s funding of marijuana research, I — one of those researchers who was awarded $2 million for our PTSD study — am here to tell them why state money is needed for this kind of research in 2014-2015.
Colorado’s Board of Health has approved up to $8 million in grants to pay for eight studies on medical marijuana, the largest-ever state-funded effort to study the medical efficacy of cannabis.
Congress reached a $1.1 trillion spending deal that also bars the District from legalizing marijuana. The move by Congress followed a familiar playbook when District leaders try to enact social policies that conservatives on Capitol Hill disagree with.
The irony of coming from Colorado to be a judge of coffee shop cannabis at an unexpectedly transformed Amsterdam Cannabis Cup wasn’t lost on me, or most people I talked to over the five-day trip. Why travel 5,000 miles to smoke marijuana when it’s legal right down the street?
Scientist Sue Sisley is best known for her very public firing by the University of Arizona — but she hopes to soon be better known as the researcher who is testing the efficacy of marijuana as a treatment to post-traumatic stress disorder in American veterans. And while Sisley is a finalist for a historic Colorado grant meant for cannabis research, she hasn’t yet received the grant — regardless of incorrect reports in the media.
Former University of Arizona professor Sue Sisley has received a $2 million grant from the state of Colorado to continue a marijuana research study on PTSD.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., have introduced legislation that would allow Department of Veterans Affairs’ doctors to recommend medical marijuana for some patients.
Colorado health officials have recommended funding two studies on childhood epilepsy, two studies on post-traumatic stress disorder and four other studies as part of the largest-ever state research program on medical marijuana.
Marijuana activists are already planning the 2016 campaign to regulate and legalize the sale of recreational pot in Nevada, home to Las Vegas, one of the world’s biggest tourism destinations. But some tourists won’t have to wait that long to legally buy weed in Las Vegas thanks to the most liberal reciprocity law in the United States.
Surely you’ve seen the viral videos and striking photography made by thrillseekers who ignore rules and break laws to capture that perfect shot from high-in-the-sky rooftops, iconic structures and tower cranes in urban settings.
Members of Congress from states with legal pot have urged their colleagues not to stand in the way of expanded legalization and to approve measures that would make it easier for marijuana businesses to operate.
When I saw a couple of snotty rich young ambitious marijuana marketing types in The New York Times yesterday claiming they were “weeding out the stoners” and that they “want to show the world that normal, professional, successful people consume cannabis,” I got pissed, because I am a stoner. And I was especially pissed because I was traveling on business and couldn’t do what I usually do when I get pissed, which is smoke weed. Or vaporize it. Or eat a candy. Regardless, I was an angry pothead. More of writer Neal Pollack’s column for The Cannabist:
Nevada’s state and federal lawmakers have been working to bring medical marijuana researcher Dr. Sue Sisley to the university to conduct a pilot study on the safety and efficacy of marijuana on veterans with chronic and treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder.
If Uruguayan President José Mujica truly is “the world’s most radical president,” as a recent Guardian profile suggests, then his wife Lucia Topolansky is surely the world’s most radical First Lady. There is, of course, a reason Mujica and Topolansky found each other in the first place — and have remained together over the years that have brought both hardship and triumph. Our interview with Topolansky:
Colorado’s pot regulators are trying to make sure the state’s marijuana growers aren’t producing more pot than they can legally sell — a hedge against Colorado-grown pot ending up in states where it’s not legal.
New Denver clothing company Hemp House has come up with an intriguing promotion, offering free eighths of weed to qualifying customers and spreading the word online.
Drugs, money and guns are all involved in the daily operations of Big Al’s Security Team in Colorado.
Green circles, blue squares and black diamonds have directed skiers for half a century. So it’s easy to understand how a Colorado task force could suggest such widely understood symbols when it came to ranking the potency of marijuana edibles. But Colorado’s ski industry lobbied against the plan.
I’m on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, a seven-hour drive from Denver. “Our youth are abusing marijuana as never before. The stuff they’re smoking and eating comes to our kids still in its packaging from Denver,” says attorney general for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Tate Means.
Arizona residents who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder will be able to legally use marijuana to help alleviate their symptoms under a decision announced Wednesday, July 9, by the state’s top health official.
There was uncertainty about weed for sale in Colorado. Now that we’re six months in to legal marijuana, here’s what we’ve learned.