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Feb 16, 2016 • By Joel Warner, Published January 24, 216 at 8:10 AM As one of Vermont’s approximately 2,500 official medical marijuana patients, Robert Gwynn is excited his state lawmakers are considering legalizing cannabis. Born with neurofibromatosis type 1, a tumor disorder that has left him with debilitating nerve pain, limited appetite and ongoing fatigue, the 31-year-old has...
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Feb 16, 2016 • By Joel Warner, Published: January 10, 2016 at 1:45 PM On the evening of Thursday, Dec. 17, Kevin Sabet was working on what he believed would be a bombshell. Sabet, founder of the anti-marijuana legalization organization Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), had received a tip from someone associated with the Obama administration: State marijuana-use estimates...
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Feb 16, 2016 • By Mahita Gajanan and Ellen Brait, Published: January 7, 2016 The first medical marijuana dispensaries in New York state opened on Thursday, as the state became the latest to launch a comprehensive program for certified patients to legally obtain and use cannabis to treat severe illnesses. The first dispensary opened its doors in Manhattan’s bustling...
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Feb 16, 2016 • By Monica Rodriguez, Published: January 06, 2016 at 11:24 PM PST POMONA >> Marijuana for medicinal use is a complex issue, the head of national volunteer group that seeks to educate the public on the science of marijuana and promote health-minded policies that reduce marijuana use told a group in Pomona Wednesday evening. Some components...
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Feb 16, 2016 • By Joel Warner, Published: December 09, 2015 at 8:02 AM BETHESDA, Maryland — Kevin Sabet, the man Salon called the quarterback of the new anti-drug movement, the guy Rolling Stone labeled the No. 1 enemy of marijuana legalization, the 36-year-old political wunderkind whom High Times has declared the devil himself, takes the stage in a sprawling conference hall at...
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Feb 16, 2016 • By Kevin Sabet The marijuana movement received a big jolt last November. No, it wasn’t another celebrity endorsement or cable news special glorifying the drug. Rather, in the midst of what we’ve been told was an inevitable march to victory, marijuana lost. And it lost big. Many of us interested in this off-year Ohio race...
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Feb 16, 2016 • By Kevin Sabet, Published: December 27, 2015 at 06:39 PM EST 2015 will be remembered as the year legalization hit bumps most supporters never anticipated. For pro-health advocates that oppose marijuana legalization, it was a year of fantastic victories! Here are the top 10: 10. Big Marijuana is Real — and People are Writing About...
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Feb 16, 2016 • By Taylor Maycan, Published: December 16, 2015 at 11:12 AM Cigarette use among teens hit an all-time low, but their fascination with e-cigarettes remains strong, a national survey of nearly 45,000 youth found. The students surveyed favored e-cigarettes, which heat liquid into a vapor that can be inhaled, over traditional cigarettes. And more than half of them credited curiosity as their...
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Feb 16, 2016 • By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Published: December 04, 2015 While ‘neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night’ will stop the U.S. Postal Service from delivering the mail, that promise apparently doesn’t apply to Oregon newspapers that carry marijuana ads — despite marijuana being legal in the state. A recent USPS memo issued out...
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Feb 16, 2016 • By Emily Dufton, Published: November 11, 2015 When polling stations closed last week, the response to Ohio’s rejection of Issue 3 came fast and furious in local and national news. “Ohioans did the right thing on Tuesday by overwhelmingly rejecting a deeply flawed marijuana legalization ballot initiative,” Vikas Bajaj wrote in the New York Times....
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Feb 16, 2016 • By Kevin Sabet Just this past week, fresh off an event with President Obama, Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Chuck Rosenberg surprised some by stating some frank words about “medical” marijuana. “What really bothers me is the notion that marijuana is also medicinal — because it’s not,” he said. “There are pieces of marijuana — extracts,...
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Feb 16, 2016 • By Jeff Mapes, Published: November 09, 2015 at 1:31 PM Hillary Clinton’s new proposal to loosen federal research restrictions on marijuana wouldn’t immediately affect Oregon and other states that have legalized recreational use of the drug. But it does signal that the front-runner in the Democratic presidential race is moving toward a more pro-marijuana approach...
