Category: Cannabis

Elan Nelson, a spokeswoman for a marijuana retail and growing facility, answers questions amid marijuana under cultivation in northeast Denver. (AP/David Zalubowski) By Christopher Ingraham January 18, 2016 You might have heard that smoking marijuana makes you stupid. If you grew up in the ’80s or ’90s, that was more or …

Law passes in Florida covering full cost of cancer treatment for firefighters May 10, 2019 MIAMI (WSVN) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Friday that will provide the full cost of cancer treatment to firefighters across the state. The bill passed with unanimous approval in the Florida …

  By: Gray RohrerContact Reporter Tallahassee Bureau March 18, 2019   Watch Here   TALLAHASSEE – Eligible patients who are ordered medical marijuana by their doctors will be able to smoke the substance legally, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday. The bill (SB 182) …

Court rules VA must pay disability benefits to ‘blue water’ Vietnam veterans By: Leo Shane III    January 29 U.S. Marines prepare to board ship at Danang in 1970 for trip back to U.S. under withdrawal orders. On Tuesday, a federal court ordered VA to award presumptive disability benefit status to thousands of …

For Third Straight Year, Police Suicides Outnumber Line-Of-Duty Deaths Law enforcement agencies across the country lost at least 159 officers to suicide in 2018. 01/02/2019 04:39 pm ET By David Lohr The estimated number of law enforcement officers who died by suicide outnumbered those who died in the line of …

Benzodiazepine users with PTSD more likely to attempt, complete suicide November 2, 2018 Veterans with PTSD who received benzodiazepines were more than twice as likely to die due to suicide and were almost twice as likely to have medically documented suicide attempts than patients without benzodiazepine exposure, according to study …

Curaleaf opens first medical marijuana dispensary in Fort Pierce Meghan McRoberts 12:07 AM, Oct 31, 2018 FORT PIERCE, Fla. – There is a new place to buy medical marijuana on the Treasure Coast. The first medical dispensary in Fort Pierce had its ribbon cutting Monday. Curaleaf has been delivering medical …

Marijuana Support Grows: Two Out Of Three Americans Back Legalization, Gallup Says By: Tom Angell October 22, 2018 Two-thirds of Americans now support legalizing marijuana, the highest percentage ever in Gallup’s ongoing decades-long series of national polls on the topic. The new survey released on Monday shows that U.S. adults back …

As Medical Marijuana Becomes More Accepted, Veterans Urge the VA To Prescribe It By JULIO OCHOA • SEP 26, 2018 Janine Lutz displays her Memorial Wall, which she built with photos of veterans who killed themselves. She said the VA’s policy shunning medical marijuana is leading to needless deaths. JULIO OCHOA / AMERICAN HOMEFRONT Originally …

Editorial: Shapiro, Buchanan diverge on medical marijuana Tom Tryon September 23, 2018 Election campaigns, particularly those for federal offices, are increasingly unproductive and uninformative, based on tired ideology and poll-driven flash points. Yet sometimes stiff competition for an office results in productive thought and enlightenment — that is, when reporting …