Marijuana Policy Reform: Three States Could Legalize Its Usage
Marijuana policy reform: three states could legalize its usage
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Washington's Initiative 502 would enact the legalization of cannabis for use by adults 21 or older, regardless of medical need. By establishing marijuana businesses through state regulated and licensed system as well as putting in place taxes and … Read more on Examiner.com
Medical Marijuana Advocates Want Drug Reclassified
Filed under: marijuana abuse
Marijuana is classified under "Schedule I" of controlled substances, meaning it has a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use. It's lumped in with drugs like heroin, LSD and ecstasy. Americans for Safe Access want to see it … Read more on Huffington Post
Pooja misrra speaks on Marijuana abuse on reality shows – Alcohol abuse also rampant in reality shows claim participants “They used to drink and do drugs till 4 in the morning,” alleges a livid Pooja Misrra. The VJ-actress is referring to her co-contestants on Big Switch. The reality show features 10 rich ‘kids’ who move to a slum where they live with 10 slum-dwellers dubbed ‘dreamers’. The rich ‘kids’ perform menial tasks, which win points for the dreamers. “Siddartha Khanna and Adam Bedi would carry wads of cash to win friends in the crew, so they could call home. They would spend night after night drinking and rolling up spliffs in front of the gullible slum children!” alleges Misrra. Story & Video By – Janaki Viswanathan , MiD-DAY
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Understanding Marijuana:A New Look at the Scientific Evidence
Marijuana is the world’s most popular illicit drug, with hundreds of millions of regular users worldwide. One in three Americans has smoked pot at least once. The Drug Enforcement Agency estimates that Americans smoke five million pounds of marijuana each year. And yet marijuana remains largely misunderstood by both its advocates and its detractors.
To some, marijuana is an insidious “stepping-stone” drug, enticing the inexperienced and paving the way to the inevitable abuse of harder drug
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The Ganja Complex: Rastafari and Marijuana
In The Ganja Complex Ansley Hamid skillfully welds together two decades of ethnographic research on marijuana in the Caribbean and the United States. Hamid juxtaposes an in-depth study of the spread of Rastafari in the 1970s with an examination of the rise of an international marijuana economy. This revisionist work departs radically from previous scholarship by identifying Rastafari, not as a messianic or millenarian cult, but as a participant in the essential functions of a community’s overall
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The Cultural/ Subcultural Contexts of Marijuana Use at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
Learn why marijuana use has increased in the new millennium
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug. The Cultural/Subcultural Contexts of Marijuana Use at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century takes a close look at present cannabis use trends in the new millennium by providing the latest research findings and most current case studies. Age and ethnographic data are presented in detail always with a con
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