Category: Advocacy

Illegally Healed: How Cannabis Oil Saved This 11-Year-Old From A Rare Bone Tumor Oct 1, 2017 “It was the thought of losing my daughter without turning over every rock imaginable is what led me to cannabis,” says Janie Maedler, a mother, educator and cannabis advocate. In October of 2013, life …

Wife Rids Her Husband’s Cancer Naturally: Message Attacked BY PAUL FASSA With all the trolls, shills, and so called “real science” debunkers and mindless idiots swarming about on the internet, when a person goes very public with a valiant cancer cure outside of mainstream oncology, those dogs will bark. And barking …

New Study Finds Marijuana Users Are Happier and More Successful in Life Jun 22, 2017 Shattering the stereotype of the lazy pothead, new research suggests cannabis users are actually more satisfied, more successful, and even more likely to volunteer in their communities than their nonsmoking counterparts. Last week, the Independent described to its readers how …

Questions and Answers About Cannabis What is Cannabis? Cannabis , also known as marijuana, is a plant from Central Asia that is grown in many parts of the world today. The Cannabis plant produces a resin containing compounds called cannabinoids. Some cannabinoids are psychoactive (acting on the brain and changing mood or consciousness). In the United States, Cannabis is a controlled substance and has …

A pharma company that spent $500,000 trying to keep pot illegal just got DEA approval for synthetic marijuana By Christopher Ingraham March 24  Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company that was one of the chief financial backers of the opposition to marijuana legalization in Arizona last year, received preliminary approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration this week for Syndros, …

3 States Approve Recreational Marijuana; Nationwide Is Next Nov 9, 2016   As we reported last night, three states have approved the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, which includes California, Nevada and Massachusetts. As of the morning of November 9th, Maine is reportedly close to also approving the legalization, with 91% of …

 Voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada just approved recreational marijuana use. Here’s what they can learn from Washington, Colorado and Oregon, states where marijuana use has already been legalized.  August 29, 2016 | 11:20 AM EDT  (Daron Taylor, Danielle Kunitz/ The Washington Post) retrieved from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/business/how-marijuana-legalization-is-working-out-so-far/2016/08/29/a9c9a026-6dfc-11e6-993f-73c693a89820_video.html?utm_term=.d57992b58c7c

Devastating effects of ‘Candy Land’ reach beyond veterans Aaron Glantz Center for Investigative Reporting Mar 16, 2015   On a clear August morning, Amish carpenter William Miller and his family climbed into their black horse-drawn buggy and headed out to the nearest big-box store, a 16-mile journey from their central …

Study Shows Marijuana 114 Times Safer Than Drinking Alcohol Mar 4, 2015 Marco Torres, Prevent Disease We have been led to believe that marijuana is a dangerous and addictive drug that destroys lives and is a far greater risk than other recreational drugs such as alcohol. Governments have tried diligently to …