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(ANTIMEDIA) Cannabis may help decrease crack cocaine use, according to a new study conducted in Canada and released last month in the journal Addictive Behaviors.

I'm getting ready for a trip to Paris. And I have a problem. There's no way to get medical marijuana in France. And it's not legal to bring it in either. And I need it to sleep. Ugghh. Ironically my doctor is offering to give me much stronger medicine that does the kinds of things to people that imbeciles think marijuana does (but doesn't).

Daniel Louis Crumpton joins me today to talk about his work with the non-profit CannaSense. Daniel explains how CannaSense provides medical grade cannabis and related products to anyone in need through out the 50 states. We talk about the legal framework that CannaSense uses in order to provide the medicine. Daniel breaks down what they call the trifecta (Compassionate Use act, Affordable Care Act, and the Article 4 Section 1 of the Constitution) which sets up a legal framework to prescribe cannabis and distribute it no matter where you happen to live.

A bag of medical marijuana. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

(ANTIMEDIA) The war on drugs is such an abysmal failure that even the lawmakers who have funded it for decades are drawing a line in the sand.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: West Virginia is on a roll now with health and hemp; Baltimore's trash-eating monster is a clean sight to see; and studies show you should get naked and go to nature.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: West Virginia is on a roll now with health and hemp; Baltimore's trash-eating monster is a clean sight to see; and studies show you should get naked and go to nature.

A recent survey by Yahoo News and The Marist Poll reveals, among other things, that people – regardless of whether they have children or not – are more concerned about kids smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol than they are about kids using marijuana. [1]
For the survey, 1,122 adults age 18 and older were polled from March 1 through March 7, 2017.

State-by-state legalization of marijuana is opening eyes to the possible health benefits from parts of the cannabis plant, but the federal government remains an obstacle, as Martin A. Lee explained to Dennis J Bernstein by Dennis J Bernstein Despite breakthroughs…Read more →

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Some genius created a P2P medicine site; Colleges are trying to reign in costs by going with open-source textbooks; and a library of tools just got a lot bigger.