the actual #marijuana press release: “Justice Department Places FDA-Approved Marijuana Products and Products Containing Marijuana Subject to a Qualifying State-issued License in Schedule III, Strengthening Medical Research While Maintaining Strict Federal Controls”
on 02026-05-09apparently #Trump’s Department of Justice has reclassified #marijuana from Schedule I (“hard drugs”) to Schedule II (“like Tylenol with codeine”). This is #news from April 23. #politics #drugs #USA
on 02026-05-09“#Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval endorsed emergency regulations allowing the state’s Tax Department to grant more #marijuana distribution licenses” #USA #politics
on 02017-07-11#paper purporting to report that THC from #marijuana reverses #dementia in mice. “Here we show that a low dose of Δ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) reversed the age-related decline in cognitive performance of mice aged 12 and 18 months. This behavioral effect was accompanied by enhanced expression of synaptic marker proteins and increased hippocampal spine density. THC treatment restored hippocampal gene transcription patterns such that the expression profiles of THC-treated mice aged 12 months closely resembled those of THC-free animals aged 2 months.” #medicine
on 02017-06-18#Facebook #censorship of #marijuana #journalism impairs #human-rights. “Your ad wasn’t approved because the body/title text used in the ad promotes the use or sale of illegal #drugs.”
on 02016-07-11#marijuana legalization is cutting into drug cartels’ profits in #Mexico
on 02016-03-08the #paper doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.4005 “Medical Cannabis Laws and Opioid Analgesic Overdose Mortality in the United States, 1999-2010” on medical #marijuana. “Examination of the association between medical cannabis laws and opioid analgesic overdose mortality in each year after implementation of the law showed that such laws were associated with a lower rate of overdose mortality that generally strengthened over time.”
on 02016-01-11Colleen Barry found a 25% lower death from opioid overdoses in states that legalized medical #marijuana
on 02016-01-11#marijuana seizures at the US-#Mexico border dropped by a third from 2011 to 2014. #legalization #politics
on 02015-08-13