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Opinion: NBA Needs to Permanently Abolish Marijuana Testing

Photo by Mark J. Terrill, via AP Images Article by Jeff Zillgitt, USA Today No more than five players have been suspended for violating the NBA’s and National Basketball Players Association’s marijuana policy in the past four seasons. The issue isn't if NBA players do or don’t use...

Cannabis shown to be more effective than hydroxychloroquine

Photo from piqsels.com, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Rick Bakas, Flowsent In the race to find a cure for COVID-19, a team of Canadian scientists have found at least thirteen strains of cannabis shown to be effective against the coronavirus. The President of the United States of...

It’s time to plant for the future with hemp

Image via The Circle. Article by Winona LaDuke and catwhipple, via The Circle. While armchair and facebook critics are blasting away at those of us transforming the world, blasting Alexandria Ocasio Ortiz, Ilhan Omar, and others for having a dream of an ecologically and socially beautiful world,...

Marijuana Reform Should Focus On Inequality

Image by Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty. Article by Sarah Milov, via The Atlantic. Especially because Americans of color have borne the brunt of the drug war, they deserve to share in the marijuana boom now taking hold across the country. And if America’s long...

More people use marijuana to treat illness than to get high, study says

Photo by THOM CARROLL( PHILLY VOICE) Article by Adam Hermann, via PHILLY VOICE Nearly twice as many people in the United States use marijuana to treat illnesses as those who use marijuana to get high, according to a new study. Roughly 46% of regular marijuana users...